sophie_paris said:Order of operations matters more than any single choice here: establish a baseline, change one thing, wait long enough for it to express itself, then…
That is right, and it stops being right at the edges. The general case is well behaved; the interesting cases in this thread are all at the boundary where the general case breaks.
Dr.NephBHM_UK 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. Taking it to my next appointment.
sophie_paris said:Order of operations matters more than any single choice here: establish a baseline, change one thing, wait long enough for it to express itself, then…
I read this differently from sophie_paris, on substance rather than tone. This treats a plausible mechanism as a demonstrated one. Plausible is where you start looking, not where you stop.
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