why does nobody talk about non-scale victory
The title is the whole question — why does nobody talk about non-scale victory — but here is why I am asking.
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.
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.
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.
If somebody has the same thing measured a different way, post it next to mine and we will see whether they agree.
best — the order this archive was captured in
Nothing on this board is medical advice, and rate, target and method are questions for somebody who knows your history.
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.
Nothing on this board is medical advice, and rate, target and method are questions for somebody who knows your history.
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.
the first person to notice was me, months after it started
the first person to notice was me, months after it started
Agreed — measurements over photographs, every time, for anybody trying to actually track something.
Left up. It is a milestone post with a timeframe attached, which is all we ask.
measurements beat photographs for actually tracking anything
That is a waist measurement, not a weight, and the thread has been comparing them as though they were the same.
the middle is the part nobody posts and everybody lives in
This. Waist measurement kept moving through my longest stall and it was the only thing that kept me sane.
Disagree that the pace matters as much as you think. Durable is better than fast and nobody posts about durable.
Disagree that the pace matters as much as you think.
Slight disagreement: that is a month, not a plateau, and calling it one makes it heavier than it is.
text only here, by community rule, and it works better than you would think
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