[Results] 39 weeks, 17kg, and progress was the hard part
Reporting in. 39 weeks, 17kg, and progress was the hard part.
The relevant figures are 39 weeks and 17kg, and they come from the same log I have kept the whole time.
Weighing under consistent conditions — same time, same state, same scale — removes most of the apparent variability people find distressing.
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.
Research-use-only material is not approved for human use and nothing here should be read as a recommendation to use it.
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.
Stopped reading the fastest posts here for a month and my mood improved considerably.
Nobody noticed for months. Then several people noticed in the same fortnight, which was strange and quite nice.
Did the clothes change before the number did for you too?
a plateau is not a failure and it is not a personality
Circumference measurements often continue changing during a scale plateau because composition changes are not visible on a bathroom scale.
What was the non-scale thing that told you first?
celebrate the boring milestones, they are the durable ones
non-scale victories count and they are the ones people remember
What timeframe is that over?
That is a waist measurement, not a weight, and the thread has been comparing them as though they were the same.
Small correction, kindly meant: that is a range rather than a regain. Weight moves day to day in everybody.
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a milestone is whatever you decide it is
measurements beat photographs for actually tracking anything
the first person to notice was me, months after it started
Wrote down one non-scale thing every week. Reading a year of those back was more affecting than any number.
measurements beat photographs for actually tracking anything
Agreed — measurements over photographs, every time, for anybody trying to actually track something.
nobody owes anybody a starting weight
nobody owes anybody a starting weight
Adding the thing I wish someone had said to me — the goal you picked at week one was a guess.
Gently disagree with the framing — that is not a plateau, that is a month. They are different things.
Cosigning on timeframe. "23kg" means something completely different over 13 months than over one.
Agreed that goal weights picked at the start are guesses. Mine was, and I revised it twice.
goal weights chosen at week one are usually guesses
Same. Comparison ruined about three months for me until I stopped reading the fastest posts.
13kg over 11 months and honestly the most useful marker was that stairs stopped being a decision.
Disagree that the pace matters as much as you think. Durable is better than fast and nobody posts about durable.
My goal weight at week one was a number I made up. I have revised it twice since and I am happier for it.
Correction: 8kg over 15 months is a different claim from 8kg in a month, and the post reads as the second.
- 1Circumference measurements often continue changing during a scale plateau…13 comments in this branch · started by u/lucia_balogun
- 2Same. Comparison ruined about three months for me until I stopped reading…6 comments in this branch · started by u/niels_roos