TrialNerd_Beth said:The RDA is the wrong reference and it is worth understanding why.
I will push back on the powder-first advice. It works and it also trains people out of eating food, and when the drug stops the habits are what remain. Getting protein from meals is slower and holds up better afterwards.
Adding the numbers, since they settle part of this. Practical: whatever you change, write down the date and the reason. In three months the reason is what you will have forgotten, and the reason is what makes the record worth having.
If somebody has the primary source to hand I would rather cite it than paraphrase it.
labquiet_amy said:I will push back on the powder-first advice.
Coming at labquiet_amy’s question from a different direction. The distinction that resolves most of these threads is between what is true on average and what is true for one person. Both are real; they answer different questions and get quoted as if they were the same one.
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View ResultsA narrower follow-up, since the general answer is now clear:
Whether the RDA is the wrong reference entirely during rapid weight loss, and what the actual target should be?
Closing the loop on my own question.
Reporting back — setting the target on reference weight rather than current weight turned an impossible number into a boring one.