someone explain progress to me like I have not read a paper in years
someone explain progress to me like I have not read a paper in years, and I want the answer with the reasoning attached rather than just the conclusion.
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.
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.
Circumference measurements often continue changing during a scale plateau because composition changes are not visible on a bathroom scale.
I will update this if the picture changes rather than quietly leaving it up.
best — the order this archive was captured in
Weighing under consistent conditions — same time, same state, same scale — removes most of the apparent variability people find distressing.
This. Waist measurement kept moving through my longest stall and it was the only thing that kept me sane.
the first person to notice was me, months after it started
Did the clothes change before the number did for you too?
Nobody noticed for months. Then several people noticed in the same fortnight, which was strange and quite nice.
Small correction, kindly meant: that is a range rather than a regain. Weight moves day to day in everybody.
Gently disagree with the framing — that is not a plateau, that is a month. They are different things.
Removed an image link. This board is text only by community rule and that has been reaffirmed twice.
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