Edited to add looks like I was posting at the same time as everybody else. Looks like we have similiar theories. Interesting discussion.
Etana was laid up for quite a while what with her surgery and shoulder injury and is only recently getting back to her usual exercise routines. Could it be that she's back to that newbie effect where you can gain muscle and lose fat while in a deficit? I know muscle memory is supposed to kick in again but she was off for several months.
I know that with patients I've seen over the years it often seems that if there has been muscle wasting or loss of strength because of an injury and the person is now rehabbing the gains are very fast initially as they are building back up to their pre-injured state. Then any progress with strength and muscle gain slows back down again. Not sure if that even applies here but I do see similiarities.
Another explanation would be that she is experiencing primarily fat loss but it's masked by water retention. She may be sensitive to training and since she's coming back after a layoff it's a little more pronounced?
Who knows? Just throwing out some speculations here pretty much off the top of my head. I'm no expert. It's interesting though.
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