BariatricNurseD said:

Almost every unanswerable question in these threads is unanswerable because three things changed in the same fortnight, and no amount of subsequent…

No disagreement, though it depends on where somebody is starting from, and this thread has been assuming a starting point nobody stated.

RunnerRach said:

Genuine plateaus happen too, and the mechanism is metabolic adaptation plus a smaller body.

Saving this. It is the first explanation that did not require me to already understand it.

BariatricNurseD said:

Almost every unanswerable question in these threads is unanswerable because three things changed in the same fortnight, and no amount of subsequent…

This is where I part company with the consensus forming above. The counter-case has not been addressed. Somebody upthread described the situation that does not fit, and the thread moved on rather than engaging with it, which is the failure mode this board is supposed to avoid.

One concrete data point for the thread. Say what you would expect to see if you were wrong, before you look. It is a small discipline and it changes what you notice.

Moderator note: reminder that nothing in this thread is medical advice, and that clinical claims need a source. Tagging this one for the weekly digest.