[Meta] the goal rule is doing its job and people should stop complaining
the goal rule is doing its job and people should stop complaining — with the counter-argument included, because I find it fairly persuasive. The first thing I noticed was a jacket doing up. The scale had been flat for three weeks at that point. 9kg over 15 months and honestly the most useful marker was that stairs…
Circumference measurements often continue changing during a scale plateau because composition changes are not visible on a bathroom scale.
Is the goal you set at the start still the goal?
Yes. The middle is where everybody actually lives and almost nobody posts from it.
say what changed for you, not what should change for others
Agreed that goal weights picked at the start are guesses. Mine was, and I revised it twice.
the first person to notice was me, months after it started
The boring middle lasted the longest and it is the part I am most proud of.
This. Waist measurement kept moving through my longest stall and it was the only thing that kept me sane.