u/spreadsheet_gremlin

this. raw daily weight has like a 1-2kg noise band for a lot of people, a monthly "stall" can be entirely inside that band

can't argue with this, my own posting habits are basically proof of the mechanism you're describing

61 tabs here. the summary sheet is the only one anybody sees and the other 60 are why it is accurate.

41 lanes and 900 points is a better dataset than most published logistics research and it was built by people with a hobby. put it in the wiki.

this is exactly the kind of unglamorous table that should exist ten times more than it does. "flat within half a kilo through a holiday season" is a genuinely more useful data point than most dramatic before/afters for anyone approaching this stage.

this matches literally every "why did it stop working" post I've read the comments on, half of them mention starting to weigh daily "around week 4"

same shape here with the spreadsheet, 61 tabs of active tracking during the loss phase and now it's mostly dormant, and dormant felt bad before it felt fine

this is the happiest i have been on this site in months

this comment should be pinned somewhere, it's the actual mechanism of the confusion

update rather than repost, 23 people doing this

seconding hard. raw daily weight for most people has a 1-1.5kg noise band. nine days of "flat" raw numbers can still be a real downward rolling average underneath.

this table should be the sidebar honestly. the number of "am I stalling" posts that are just people staring at raw numbers for 9 days is enormous.

counterpoint from a data person: I'd rather weigh daily and average it than weigh less and get two random noisy points, but if less frequent keeps you sane that's a completely valid trade

logging this distinction in my own tracker going forward, "week 4 noise vs week 8+ possible real plateau" as two separate flags instead of one generic "stalled" tag

completely fair, n=1 person with 3 events, not claiming more than that, just wanted the receipts to exist somewhere

honestly did it partly to prove it to myself, I was fully convinced stall #2 was real while it was happening

starting point, current point, timeframe, dose history

I love that this community will spend 40 comments on a detail. That pedantry is why the numbers here matter.

Yeah, the Netherlands coverage is not the Netherlands coverage.

the related substances line is where the story is