[Discussion] the goal advice in here is 3 years out of date
Thinking out loud about this: the goal advice in here is 3 years out of date.
3 years. Those are measured, not estimated, and not rounded up in my favour.
A goal weight chosen before starting is a prediction made with the least information you will ever have. Revising it is ordinary rather than a failure.
The first thing I noticed was a jacket doing up. The scale had been flat for three weeks at that point.
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best — the order this archive was captured in
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 was the non-scale thing that told you first?
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.
What are you actually celebrating today? Genuine question.
Push back on the goal number. You chose it before you knew what any of this felt like.
progress is not linear and nobody’s is
Did the clothes change before the number did for you too?
Is the goal you set at the start still the goal?
Small correction, kindly meant: that is a range rather than a regain. Weight moves day to day in everybody.
Text-only posting removes the comparison mechanism that makes image boards difficult, which is why this community adopted the rule and has kept it.
Text-only posting removes the comparison mechanism that makes image boards difficult, which is why this community adopted the rule and has kept it.
Agreed — measurements over photographs, every time, for anybody trying to actually track something.
the first person to notice was me, months after it started
Yes. The middle is where everybody actually lives and almost nobody posts from it.
This. Waist measurement kept moving through my longest stall and it was the only thing that kept me sane.
Yes. Clothes fitting differently arrives well before the scale acknowledges anything.
Yes.
Slight disagreement: that is a month, not a plateau, and calling it one makes it heavier than it is.
Correction: 22kg over 14 months is a different claim from 22kg in a month, and the post reads as the second.