[Discussion] progress is doing more work than we give it credit for
progress is doing more work than we give it credit for, which sounds obvious until you try to state the evidence for it.
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.
Stalled for 10 weeks and measured my waist out of stubbornness. It had moved. The scale had not.
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.
If two or three other people have done the same thing we might actually learn something. Alone it is an anecdote.
best — the order this archive was captured in
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.
Why this board is text only, since new members ask every week.
Agreed — measurements over photographs, every time, for anybody trying to actually track something.
Agreed — measurements over photographs, every time, for anybody trying to actually track something.
Adding the thing I wish someone had said to me — the goal you picked at week one was a guess.
Adding the thing I wish someone had said to me — the goal you picked at week one was a guess.
This is the one I would put in the sidebar. The middle is where everyone lives.
the middle is the part nobody posts and everybody lives in
Same. Comparison ruined about three months for me until I stopped reading the fastest posts.
the clothes change before the number does
the clothes change before the number does
Slight disagreement: that is a month, not a plateau, and calling it one makes it heavier than it is.
waist is the measurement that keeps moving during a scale stall
Same.
lucia_balogun is right that the clothes tell you before the scale does.
How long was the stall before it moved?
measurements beat photographs for actually tracking anything
Right — the non-scale victories are the ones I remember. The numbers all blur together after a while.
goal weights chosen at week one are usually guesses
text only here, by community rule, and it works better than you would think
Correction: 19kg over 19 months is a different claim from 19kg in a month, and the post reads as the second.
Did the clothes change before the number did for you too?
This. Waist measurement kept moving through my longest stall and it was the only thing that kept me sane.
That is a waist measurement, not a weight, and the thread has been comparing them as though they were the same.
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 that goal weights picked at the start are guesses. Mine was, and I revised it twice.
Not convinced comparison helps here. The people posting the fastest results are the tail of a distribution, not the middle.
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.
the timeframe matters as much as the number
Correcting my own post above — that was week 77, not the week I wrote. Same story, wrong number.
comparison is the thief of everything on a board like this
Circumference measurements often continue changing during a scale plateau because composition changes are not visible on a bathroom scale.
Push back on the goal number. You chose it before you knew what any of this felt like.
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