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c/progresspics·posted 8 months ago by u/meera_sandvik

what would you tell week-1 you about struggle

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Question in the title, detail here: what would you tell week-1 you about struggle.

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.

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.

Weighing under consistent conditions — same time, same state, same scale — removes most of the apparent variability people find distressing.

Screenshot none of this. Read the whole thread, including the parts where I am told I am wrong.

187 up / 246 down43% upvoted13 commentsid lhlew117 Nov 2025

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u/cato_batista18 points·8 months ago

Circumference measurements often continue changing during a scale plateau because composition changes are not visible on a bathroom scale.

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u/downvote_magnet11 points·8 months ago

Circumference measurements often continue changing during a scale plateau because composition changes are not visible on a bathroom scale.

cato_batista is right that the clothes tell you before the scale does.

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u/rasmus_kimani-7 points·8 months ago

What timeframe is that over?

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u/georgi_adebayo1 point·8 months ago

I would not treat a two-kilo range as a regain. Weight varies day to day in everybody.

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u/hsa_math-10 points·8 months ago

Stalled for 21 weeks and measured my waist out of stubbornness. It had moved. The scale had not.

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u/gastric_emptying_g-13 points·8 months ago

Stopped reading the fastest posts here for a month and my mood improved considerably.

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u/meera_sandvikOP1 point·8 months ago

What are you actually celebrating today? Genuine question.

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u/lane_map_larrylogistics6 points·8 months ago

Correction: 8kg over 13 months is a different claim from 8kg in a month, and the post reads as the second.

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u/gentle_correctionMOD11 points·8 months ago

Removed an image link. This board is text only by community rule and that has been reaffirmed twice.

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u/meera_sandvikOP6 points·8 months ago

Small correction, kindly meant: that is a range rather than a regain. Weight moves day to day in everybody.

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u/reta_and_regret1 point·8 months ago

the timeframe matters as much as the number

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u/came_for_the_coa5 points·8 months ago

Removed an image link.

This is the one I would put in the sidebar. The middle is where everyone lives.

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