lean-mass

The claim that "about a quarter of what you lose on these drugs is muscle" gets repeated everywhere and I have never once seen it sourced. I am 14 weeks into…

Down 19 kg over seven months on semaglutide. My DEXA says I have lost 1.4 kg of lean soft tissue, which everyone tells me is a good result. But in the gym I am…

I am 92.4 kg, female, 34, on tirzepatide 7.5 mg, and my logged intake has settled at roughly 900 kcal a day. I did not choose 900. It is what I eat when I eat until I…

I have added a lot of cardio because it felt like the responsible thing to do and now I am not sure it is helping. Current week: three full-body lifting sessions,…

The case in front of me: twelve · 1,400 kcal. I want to decide this in advance so that I am not deciding it under pressure later. Assume I will follow the plan I…

The particulars: 95 kg · 1,000 kcal. I would like the arithmetic checked rather than the conclusion asserted. I have deliberately not used an online calculator…

The specifics, since they change the answer: 81 kg · 1,200 kcal. I would rather understand the derivation than memorise the outcome. Two people I asked gave two…

Numbers first: 124 kg · 1,000 kcal. This should be a straightforward calculation and I keep getting two different answers. The numbers are arbitrary; the method is…

The trend is what I care about; individual weeks are obviously noise. I want to understand what this actually establishes, as opposed to what it is being used to…

Conditions: 112 kg · 1,100 kcal. I want the working, not the result — I need to be able to redo it with different numbers. I care about the precision as well as the…

The particulars: semaglutide · STEP 2. I have the document in front of me and I can read the numbers. What I cannot do is interpret them. I am reasonably comfortable…

What I have: eight · 1,000 kcal. This is a planning question. I know what my options are; I do not know how to weigh them. What I want is the minimum viable version,…

I want the floor, not the optimum. I am losing about 0.9 kg a week on tirzepatide and I have limited capacity to train: realistically two sessions a week, 40 minutes…

The particulars: 81 kg · 800 kcal. I would like the arithmetic checked rather than the conclusion asserted. I have deliberately not used an online calculator because…

Intake is tracked, imperfectly, and I am aware of the direction of the error. I suspect the honest answer is that it depends, in which case I would like to know on…

The case in front of me: 81 kg · 1,100 kcal. I want the working, not the result — I need to be able to redo it with different numbers. I care about the precision as…

The case in front of me: semaglutide · SUSTAIN-6. I would like to know the limits of what can be inferred from this. What I am trying to avoid is over-reading a…

Concretely: 88 kg · 1,100 kcal. Please show the division. I want to check my own against yours. I would like the general form as well as the specific number, so I can…

Concretely: tirzepatide · SURPASS-3. The figures are clear enough; the question is what they mean and what they do not. I can supply the numbers if the specifics…

1.6 g/kg is quoted as though it were a physical constant. I would like to know what study it came from, what population, and whether the conditions of that study…

I would like to know what to measure as much as what to do. Both of these get recommended confidently by different people, which suggests neither is obviously right.…

Stated plainly: oral semaglutide · SOUL. The figures are clear enough; the question is what they mean and what they do not. I can supply the numbers if the specifics…

Numbers first: two · 1,200 kcal. This is a planning question. I know what my options are; I do not know how to weigh them. What I want is the minimum viable version,…

The trend is what I care about; individual weeks are obviously noise. I have used one of these for a while and I am considering switching, which requires a reason.…