nutrition

Started tirzepatide in February. Nothing unusual until early June, when the shedding started, and it is now substantial: handfuls in the shower, hair on the pillow,…

I am five months in, down 16 kg, and flattened. Not sleepy, exactly. More that everything costs more than it used to: stairs, conversations, training sessions I used…

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…

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…

Details up front: vomiting · 1,000 kcal. I have a result I cannot explain, and I would rather diagnose it than guess. I have checked the obvious explanations and…

Month five, semaglutide 1.7 mg, and the scale has not moved in five weeks. Before that I was averaging about 0.5 kg a week fairly reliably. I am now at 88.1 kg from a…

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…

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 specifics, since they change the answer: fatigue · 1,200 kcal. Something has gone wrong and I would like to know how badly before I decide what to do. Nothing…

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…

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…

I want to check a hypothesis with numbers rather than argue about mechanisms. The claim I keep reading is that a large part of GLP-1 constipation is simply the…

Setup, so nobody has to ask: hair thinning · 1,100 kcal. I noticed this today and I have not touched anything since, in case the state is diagnostic. I have not…

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…

I would like to know what to measure as much as what to do. I have done this once and I suspect I got away with it rather than got it right. For context: I keep…

The specifics, since they change the answer: 62 kg · 1,200 kcal. I would like the arithmetic checked rather than the conclusion asserted. I have deliberately not used…

I would like to sanity-check the electrolyte question with numbers rather than by adding a supplement and seeing what happens. My hypothesis is that the reason people…

I am four months into a shedding episode and I genuinely cannot tell whether it is slowing down, stable or worse. My perception changes daily and is heavily…

Concretely: 74 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…

Stated plainly: 95 kg · 900 kcal. I have worked this out and I would like someone to find the error, because I suspect there is one. My working so far, for the…

I keep reading that muscle protein synthesis needs roughly 2.5-3 g of leucine per meal to fully trigger, and that you should distribute protein across three or four…

Nine weeks flat at 71.6 kg, from a start of 94 kg. Semaglutide 2.4 mg, month fourteen. Intake weighed, not estimated, at 1,650 kcal. Steps averaging 9,400. Three…

Stated plainly: nausea · 1,100 kcal. I noticed this today and I have not touched anything since, in case the state is diagnostic. I have not discarded anything yet,…