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c/progresspics·submitted 2 years ago by u/maren_ibarra

milestone — 11 things I got wrong before I got it right

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milestone — 11 things I got wrong before I got it right — a position I have arrived at slowly and would like tested. My goal weight at week one was a number I made up. I have revised it twice since and I am happier for it. Wrote down one non-scale thing every week. Reading a year of those back was more affecting than…

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u/elise_ramos76 points·2 years ago

a plateau is not a failure and it is not a personality

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u/rosa_almeida23 points·2 years ago

Same. Comparison ruined about three months for me until I stopped reading the fastest posts.

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u/fibre_forward6 points·2 years ago

waist is the measurement that keeps moving during a scale stall

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u/zaid_grimaldi36 points·2 years ago

a plateau is not a failure and it is not a personality

elise_ramos is right that the clothes tell you before the scale does.

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u/halima_mbeki10 points·2 years ago

Circumference measurements often continue changing during a scale plateau because composition changes are not visible on a bathroom scale.

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u/vial_math_verasyringe math28 points·2 years ago

What are you actually celebrating today? Genuine question.

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u/andres_restrepo6 points·2 years ago

The first thing I noticed was a jacket doing up. The scale had been flat for three weeks at that point.

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u/rasmus_kuipers2 points·2 years ago

a milestone is whatever you decide it is

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