help me understand progress, I have read the wiki twice
help me understand progress, I have read the wiki twice, and I want the answer with the reasoning attached rather than just the conclusion.
Stalled for 4 weeks and measured my waist out of stubbornness. It had moved. The scale had not.
The first thing I noticed was a jacket doing up. The scale had been flat for three weeks at that point.
Text-only posting removes the comparison mechanism that makes image boards difficult, which is why this community adopted the rule and has kept it.
Corrections welcome, especially the pedantic ones. Pedantry is how this board earns its reputation.
best — the order this archive was captured in
Rate of change is not a virtue. Slower trajectories are as durable as fast ones and are considerably better represented on this board than the front page suggests.
nobody owes anybody a starting weight
Correction: 24kg over 12 months is a different claim from 24kg in a month, and the post reads as the second.
the clothes change before the number does
That is a waist measurement, not a weight, and the thread has been comparing them as though they were the same.
Did the clothes change before the number did for you too?
Not convinced comparison helps here. The people posting the fastest results are the tail of a distribution, not the middle.
Gently disagree with the framing — that is not a plateau, that is a month. They are different things.
Nothing on this board is medical advice, and rate, target and method are questions for somebody who knows your history.
Nothing on this board is medical advice, and rate, target and method are questions for somebody who knows your history.
Agreed — measurements over photographs, every time, for anybody trying to actually track something.
Stopped reading the fastest posts here for a month and my mood improved considerably.
Yes. Clothes fitting differently arrives well before the scale acknowledges anything.
Yes. The middle is where everybody actually lives and almost nobody posts from it.
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Cosigning on timeframe. "18kg" means something completely different over 13 months than over one.
Wrote down one non-scale thing every week. Reading a year of those back was more affecting than any number.
Is the goal you set at the start still the goal?
Wrote down one non-scale thing every week.
Slight disagreement: that is a month, not a plateau, and calling it one makes it heavier than it is.
Careful — that reads as advice about what someone else should do, and this board is for describing your own.
The boring middle lasted the longest and it is the part I am most proud of.
Weighing under consistent conditions — same time, same state, same scale — removes most of the apparent variability people find distressing.
This. Waist measurement kept moving through my longest stall and it was the only thing that kept me sane.
Small correction, kindly meant: that is a range rather than a regain. Weight moves day to day in everybody.
Agreed — text only was the best rule this board ever adopted. The posts are about what actually changed rather than about lighting.
Disagree that the pace matters as much as you think. Durable is better than fast and nobody posts about durable.
progress is not linear and nobody’s is
My goal weight at week one was a number I made up. I have revised it twice since and I am happier for it.
Right — the non-scale victories are the ones I remember. The numbers all blur together after a while.
Body weight varies by a couple of kilos day to day through fluid, glycogen and gut content, which is why a single weigh-in is noise and a fortnightly trend is signal.
waist is the measurement that keeps moving during a scale stall
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