Long covid. Which doesn’t itself make me lose weight, but somehow screws with the way I draw energy from blood sugar and eaten food so I don’t get enough and I’m slumped fatigued, but by taking creatine I can boost anaerobic energy generation enough to compensate. Anaerobic generation is when your body extracts energy from breaking down stored fat and I’m using a lot of it.

From all the signs and patterns I’ve experienced so far, I think the energy issues – and thus the weight loss from compensating for then – will end in time to leave me weighing somewhat less than unmarked normie “average” (which is by now itself probably below the actual average weight of the population) but to a minor, “slim and fit” degree, currently I put myself as solidly overweight – not on the “fat” or “average” side of that, but only going down.