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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/meera_sandvik105 points·2 years ago

Text-only posting removes the comparison mechanism that makes image boards difficult, which is why this community adopted the rule and has kept it.

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u/anders_karlsen60 points·2 years ago·edited

Text-only posting removes the comparison mechanism that makes image boards difficult, which is why this community adopted the rule and has kept it.

Slight disagreement: that is a month, not a plateau, and calling it one makes it heavier than it is.

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u/honest_syringe3331 points·2 years ago·edited

nobody owes anybody a starting weight

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u/kaia_wojcik18 points·2 years ago·edited

nobody owes anybody a starting weight

Agreed — measurements over photographs, every time, for anybody trying to actually track something.

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u/dexa_twice_yearlybody comp38 points·2 years ago

progress is not linear and nobody’s is

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u/rosa_almeida10 points·2 years ago

A goal weight chosen before starting is a prediction made with the least information you will ever have. Revising it is ordinary rather than a failure.

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u/maren_ibarraOP14 points·2 years ago

Stopped reading the fastest posts here for a month and my mood improved considerably.

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u/rasmus_kimani5 points·2 years ago

the clothes change before the number does

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u/gradient_goblin6 points·2 years ago

The boring middle lasted the longest and it is the part I am most proud of.

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