[Results] 12 weeks on 0.5mg, full numbers, ask me anything boring
Six-word version is the title — 12 weeks on 0.5mg, full numbers, ask me anything boring — and the rest is context.
The numbers the title promised, since a headline without them is worthless: 12 weeks and 0.5mg. Everything below is context for those.
The boring middle lasted the longest and it is the part I am most proud of.
Why this board is text only, since new members ask every week.
A photograph invites comparison on things nobody can control — lighting, posture, where you carry weight, what you looked like before any of this. Text invites description of what changed for you: the jacket, the stairs, the measurement, the month it took.
The result is a board where the posts are about people’s actual experience rather than about images, and where nobody is competing on the wrong axis. It was a deliberate choice, it has been challenged periodically, and every time it has been kept.
Tell me where this is wrong. That is the useful part of posting it.
best — the order this archive was captured in
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.
Correction: 13kg over 8 months is a different claim from 13kg in a month, and the post reads as the second.
Stopped reading the fastest posts here for a month and my mood improved considerably.
Cosigning on timeframe. "18kg" means something completely different over 17 months than over one.
Cosigning on timeframe.
Agreed — measurements over photographs, every time, for anybody trying to actually track something.
What was the non-scale thing that told you first?
Small correction, kindly meant: that is a range rather than a regain. Weight moves day to day in everybody.
Careful — that reads as advice about what someone else should do, and this board is for describing your own.
Small correction, kindly meant: that is a range rather than a regain.
This is the one I would put in the sidebar. The middle is where everyone lives.
This. Waist measurement kept moving through my longest stall and it was the only thing that kept me sane.
Nobody has to post a starting weight, and comments demanding one get removed.
Stalled for 11 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. Mine was, and I revised it twice.
a plateau is not a failure and it is not a personality
a milestone is whatever you decide it is
a milestone is whatever you decide it is
Adding the thing I wish someone had said to me — the goal you picked at week one was a guess.
Right — the non-scale victories are the ones I remember. The numbers all blur together after a while.
Yes. The middle is where everybody actually lives and almost nobody posts from it.
Disagree that the pace matters as much as you think. Durable is better than fast and nobody posts about durable.
Push back on the goal number. You chose it before you knew what any of this felt like.
non-scale victories count and they are the ones people remember
waist is the measurement that keeps moving during a scale stall
waist is the measurement that keeps moving during a scale stall
rasmus_kuipers is right that the clothes tell you before the scale does.
non-scale victories count and they are the ones people remember
Slight disagreement: that is a month, not a plateau, and calling it one makes it heavier than it is.
Nobody noticed for months. Then several people noticed in the same fortnight, which was strange and quite nice.
How are you keeping track — spreadsheet, notebook, nothing?
Did the clothes change before the number did for you too?
Not convinced comparison helps here. The people posting the fastest results are the tail of a distribution, not the middle.
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