What I would record differently if I started again — the long version

What I would record differently if I started again — the long version I have a specific reason for asking rather than idle curiosity, and the context is below.

Maintenance rather than loss, which is the part of this that almost nobody writes about.

I have been at roughly the same weight for 14 months. The interesting questions are all different from the ones I had at the start, and the documentation here is much thinner on this phase.

I would like to compare notes with people who are further along, and I would like to know what the published evidence says about this phase specifically rather than by extrapolation.

Worth separating two things that the opening post runs together.

Exercise volume changes: increasing exercise intensity or duration can mask weight loss (muscle gain) on the scale. Noting exercise changes when reporting weight helps interpret results.

post #10 is right about the mechanism and I think understates the practical bit.

Protein intake and resistance training: both self-reported and therefore optimistic in most reports. Recording them anyway creates a record you can look back on.

Worth separating two things that post #16 runs together.

Plateaus and resets: if weight loss stalls and then resumes, that is ordinary. It is not evidence that the medication stopped working. It is not evidence that it is still working either. It is a data point in a longer record.