This is a continuation of a long topic, addressed by post number rather than by page. Start at post 1.
Everything in post #88 holds. The case it does not cover is the one I have.
Speaking only to history of disordered eating as I have actually seen it, rather than as it is usually described: the effect is real, it is smaller than the thread suggests, and the variance between people is larger than the effect.
Nothing here is medical advice and several members in this subcategory say plainly that they are describing their own experience only.
What would change my mind on history of disordered eating is a second dataset collected by someone with no stake in the first. Until then I hold it loosely and I would rather say so than pretend to more.
Where a member is finding this hard, the useful reply is usually a question rather than an answer, and this subcategory does that well.
It is one reading of the data and not the only reasonable one.
On history of disordered eating, the part that usually goes wrong is that the question is asked as though it has one answer. It has a range, and the width of the range is the interesting bit.
If you can post the two or three numbers you are working from, several people here will check the arithmetic rather than argue about the conclusion.
Acknowledging rather than arguing. The reasoning holds as far as I can follow it.
Adding the measurement that post #99 says would settle it.
I keep a log for history of disordered eating specifically because my memory of it turned out to be systematically wrong in one direction. Six weeks of notes cost nothing and settled it.
On post #99 — agreed on the reasoning, with one qualification.
Disordered eating history: a history of anorexia, bulimia, or other eating disorders changes the risk-benefit calculation. Appetite suppression might trigger relapse. Specialist input is prudent.
Picking up post #99: that is the part I would want checked first.
What I can speak to on history of disordered eating is narrow, so I will keep it narrow rather than generalising from it. Beyond that boundary I do not know.
The most useful reply I ever got about history of disordered eating was a request to state my units. It sounds like pedantry and it has saved me twice.
Good question, well framed, and I would like to see it answered properly.
Post #103 describes the usual case. This is about the unusual one.
If you are in crisis, contact a local emergency or crisis service rather than posting. A volunteer forum cannot help and waiting costs time.
If anyone has run this properly I would rather read that than my own guess.
One more thing on history of disordered eating that took me far too long to see: the two figures people quote are not measuring the same quantity. Once you notice that, the apparent contradiction disappears.
Expectations set by other people's reported trajectories are a documented source of distress, and the trajectories posted are not representative.
Adding a reference point for history of disordered eating. Mine is a single case, collected without controls, and I am posting the method alongside it so it can be discounted appropriately.
Maintenance brings a different set of psychological questions from loss, and the discussion here is much thinner on that phase.
Adding it because I spent an afternoon working it out and nobody should have to twice.
Picking up post #110: that is the part I would want checked first.
Filing a mild objection to the consensus on history of disordered eating. Mild because I might be wrong; an objection because nobody has addressed the case that does not fit.
On post #109 — agreed on the reasoning, with one qualification.
Eating-disorder history is raised here regularly and is the case where guidance most consistently recommends specialist involvement.
What I would check first on history of disordered eating is whether the thing being measured moved or whether the way of measuring it moved. Those look identical in a graph.
On history of disordered eating, I would rather understate and be corrected upward than overstate and be quoted. That is a house style here and it is a good one.
Worth separating two things that post #112 runs together.
Support and community: some people process weight change through community (online or in-person). Others prefer privacy. Knowing what you need and seeking it proactively helps.
It is worth stating the boring hypothesis before the interesting one.
Post #114 is right about the mechanism and I think understates the practical bit.
The number people quote for history of disordered eating is a central estimate presented without its interval, and the interval is wide enough that the estimate is nearly uninformative on its own.
Motivation and expectation: starting with clear motivation and realistic expectations about what will happen and when helps with psychological adjustment.
History of disordered eating: I would want to see the raw numbers rather than the summary before agreeing. Summaries lose exactly the information that would settle this.