does non-scale victory actually matter or is it forum lore at this point
does non-scale victory actually matter or is it forum lore at this point. I am not trying to be the "source?" guy. I would just like a source.
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.
What to measure if you want to stay sane through the flat parts.
Weight, under consistent conditions, no more than weekly. Waist, monthly — it frequently keeps moving when the scale does not. And one non-scale thing a week written down: a garment, a staircase, a distance, an ordinary task that got easier.
A year of those three is a far better record than a year of daily weights, and reading the third column back is the part that actually means something. The daily number is noise dressed up as information, and it has ruined more months on this board than any plateau.
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.
Sceptical readings welcome. The confident ones are the ones I distrust.
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.
Careful — that reads as advice about what someone else should do, and this board is for describing your own.
30kg over 13 months and honestly the most useful marker was that stairs stopped being a decision.
Nobody has to post a starting weight, and comments demanding one get removed.
Right — the non-scale victories are the ones I remember. The numbers all blur together after a while.
Weighing under consistent conditions — same time, same state, same scale — removes most of the apparent variability people find distressing.
the first person to notice was me, months after it started
celebrate the boring milestones, they are the durable ones
Push back on the goal number. You chose it before you knew what any of this felt like.
Yes. Clothes fitting differently arrives well before the scale acknowledges anything.
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Not convinced comparison helps here. The people posting the fastest results are the tail of a distribution, not the middle.
Nothing on this board is medical advice, and rate, target and method are questions for somebody who knows your history.
Cosigning on timeframe. "18kg" means something completely different over 12 months than over one.
comparison is the thief of everything on a board like this
text only here, by community rule, and it works better than you would think
Gently disagree with the framing — that is not a plateau, that is a month. They are different things.
Stalled for 4 weeks and measured my waist out of stubbornness. It had moved. The scale had not.
This. Waist measurement kept moving through my longest stall and it was the only thing that kept me sane.
The boring middle lasted the longest and it is the part I am most proud of.
Correction: 16kg over 19 months is a different claim from 16kg in a month, and the post reads as the second.
Same. Comparison ruined about three months for me until I stopped reading the fastest posts.
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.
Text-only posting removes the comparison mechanism that makes image boards difficult, which is why this community adopted the rule and has kept it.
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
This is the one I would put in the sidebar. The middle is where everyone lives.
That is a waist measurement, not a weight, and the thread has been comparing them as though they were the same.
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