lost money: the version I wish someone had shown me in week 1
Reporting in. lost money: the version I wish someone had shown me in week 1.
Chased the scale instead of the measurements for a year and made myself miserable for no additional progress.
Went up too fast because the scale had stalled and I was impatient. Got fatigue I did not need and a data point I could not interpret.
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best — the order this archive was captured in
Why this board exists, stated once, since new members find it and are surprised.
Every other community surface on this site is a record of things that worked, because people post when they have something to show. That produces an archive with a systematic bias, and somebody at week three reads it and concludes that their difficult month is unusual.
This board is the counterweight. The rule is that nobody gets judged, that corrections stay up, and that the failures are written down with the same care as the successes. It is the least-visited part of the site and the part I would keep if I could only keep one.
Stopped for financial reasons and regained most of it. Not a moral story, just a budget and a documented outcome.
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somebody will read this at the point you were at, and it will help
writing it down is the useful part, not the outcome
the regret is usually about pace, not about the decision