goal — my 3-week log, condensed into one table
goal — my 3-week log, condensed into one table. I have gone back and forth on this for months.
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.
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.
Circumference measurements often continue changing during a scale plateau because composition changes are not visible on a bathroom scale.
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best — the order this archive was captured in
On the goal weight you set in week one.
You chose it with the least information you will ever have about how this feels, what is sustainable, and what your body does at different points. Revising it is not moving the goalposts; it is updating a prediction, which is what you are supposed to do with predictions.
Several of the longest-standing members here have revised theirs more than once, in both directions, and describe the revision as the point at which the whole thing became manageable. What the number should be is a conversation with somebody who knows your history — but that it is allowed to change is something this board can tell you.
On the goal weight you set in week one.
This is the one I would put in the sidebar. The middle is where everyone lives.
Gently disagree with the framing — that is not a plateau, that is a month. They are different things.
nobody owes anybody a starting weight
Stopped reading the fastest posts here for a month and my mood improved considerably.
goal weights chosen at week one are usually guesses
That is a waist measurement, not a weight, and the thread has been comparing them as though they were the same.
Weighing under consistent conditions — same time, same state, same scale — removes most of the apparent variability people find distressing.
Small correction, kindly meant: that is a range rather than a regain. Weight moves day to day in everybody.
Is the goal you set at the start still the goal?
Cosigning on timeframe. "15kg" means something completely different over 18 months than over one.
Careful — that reads as advice about what someone else should do, and this board is for describing your own.
Yes. The middle is where everybody actually lives and almost nobody posts from it.
Yes.
Agreed — measurements over photographs, every time, for anybody trying to actually track something.
Did the clothes change before the number did for you too?
Removed an image link. This board is text only by community rule and that has been reaffirmed twice.
Text-only posting removes the comparison mechanism that makes image boards difficult, which is why this community adopted the rule and has kept it.
This. Waist measurement kept moving through my longest stall and it was the only thing that kept me sane.
Agreed that goal weights picked at the start are guesses. Mine was, and I revised it twice.
Stalled for 9 weeks and measured my waist out of stubbornness. It had moved. The scale had not.
Agreed that goal weights picked at the start are guesses.
georgi_adebayo is right that the clothes tell you before the scale does.
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.
the first person to notice was me, months after it started
Yes. Clothes fitting differently arrives well before the scale acknowledges anything.
Disagree that the pace matters as much as you think. Durable is better than fast and nobody posts about durable.
I would not treat a two-kilo range as a regain. Weight varies day to day in everybody.
Nobody noticed for months. Then several people noticed in the same fortnight, which was strange and quite nice.
the timeframe matters as much as the number
Not convinced comparison helps here. The people posting the fastest results are the tail of a distribution, not the middle.
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