Dr.BariatricHTX said:Training does two things here and only one of them is on the scale.
Agreed, with the caveat that "exercise" for someone with mobility limitations is a different set of options, and the standard advice is written as though everyone can walk for an hour.
Worth separating that from training through weight loss, which this thread keeps folding into the same question. They behave differently and the advice does not transfer.
TomTeleRx said:Agreed on the mechanism, with the caveat that the head-to-head used semaglutide 1mg, not 2.4mg.
That reframing is the part I needed. Sending this to two other people who asked me the same thing last week.
Dr.BariatricHTX said:Training does two things here and only one of them is on the scale.
I read this differently. The confidence in this thread is running ahead of the evidence, and I would rather the uncertainty were stated than smoothed over because it is unsatisfying.
That is the short version; the long version is somebody else's post.
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