milestone — 11 things I got wrong before I got it right
milestone — 11 things I got wrong before I got it right — a position I have arrived at slowly and would like tested.
My goal weight at week one was a number I made up. I have revised it twice since and I am happier for it.
Wrote down one non-scale thing every week. Reading a year of those back was more affecting than any number.
Nobody noticed for months. Then several people noticed in the same fortnight, which was strange and quite nice.
Happy to answer the boring questions. Those are usually the ones worth asking.
best — the order this archive was captured in
Body weight varies by a couple of kilos day to day through fluid, glycogen and gut content, which is why a single weigh-in is noise and a fortnightly trend is signal.
What was the non-scale thing that told you first?
Correction: 6kg over 8 months is a different claim from 6kg in a month, and the post reads as the second.
Small correction, kindly meant: that is a range rather than a regain. Weight moves day to day in everybody.
Rate of change is not a virtue. Slower trajectories are as durable as fast ones and are considerably better represented on this board than the front page suggests.
Removed an image link. This board is text only by community rule and that has been reaffirmed twice.
How are you keeping track — spreadsheet, notebook, nothing?
Are you measuring anything other than weight?
32kg over 11 months and honestly the most useful marker was that stairs stopped being a decision.
Stalled for 10 weeks and measured my waist out of stubbornness. It had moved. The scale had not.
Weighing under consistent conditions — same time, same state, same scale — removes most of the apparent variability people find distressing.
That is a waist measurement, not a weight, and the thread has been comparing them as though they were the same.
Text-only posting removes the comparison mechanism that makes image boards difficult, which is why this community adopted the rule and has kept it.
Text-only posting removes the comparison mechanism that makes image boards difficult, which is why this community adopted the rule and has kept it.
Slight disagreement: that is a month, not a plateau, and calling it one makes it heavier than it is.
nobody owes anybody a starting weight
nobody owes anybody a starting weight
Agreed — measurements over photographs, every time, for anybody trying to actually track something.
progress is not linear and nobody’s is
A goal weight chosen before starting is a prediction made with the least information you will ever have. Revising it is ordinary rather than a failure.
Stopped reading the fastest posts here for a month and my mood improved considerably.
the clothes change before the number does
The boring middle lasted the longest and it is the part I am most proud of.
a plateau is not a failure and it is not a personality
Same. Comparison ruined about three months for me until I stopped reading the fastest posts.
waist is the measurement that keeps moving during a scale stall
a plateau is not a failure and it is not a personality
elise_ramos is right that the clothes tell you before the scale does.
Circumference measurements often continue changing during a scale plateau because composition changes are not visible on a bathroom scale.
What are you actually celebrating today? Genuine question.
The first thing I noticed was a jacket doing up. The scale had been flat for three weeks at that point.
a milestone is whatever you decide it is
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