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c/progresspics·submitted 3 months ago by u/nayeli_iyer

why does nobody talk about non-scale victory

Non-Scale Winbranch of 12 comments

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.…

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u/blunt_coldbox_20244 points·3 months ago

Gently disagree with the framing — that is not a plateau, that is a month. They are different things.

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u/dose_diary_danalog keeper3 points·3 months ago

the first person to notice was me, months after it started

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u/rasmus_kuipers0 points·3 months ago

the first person to notice was me, months after it started

Agreed — measurements over photographs, every time, for anybody trying to actually track something.

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u/wholesome_lurkerMOD2 points·3 months ago

Left up. It is a milestone post with a timeframe attached, which is all we ask.

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u/lina_ndiaye-15 points·3 months ago

What timeframe is that over?

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u/nayeli_iyerOP1 point·3 months ago

measurements beat photographs for actually tracking anything

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u/nayeli_iyerOP1 point·3 months ago

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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u/vial_math_verasyringe math1 point·3 months ago

the middle is the part nobody posts and everybody lives in

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u/india_generic_g1 point·3 months ago

This. Waist measurement kept moving through my longest stall and it was the only thing that kept me sane.

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u/injection_site_iris1 point·3 months ago

Disagree that the pace matters as much as you think. Durable is better than fast and nobody posts about durable.

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u/week_two_confused_20261 point·3 months ago

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.

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