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c/progresspics·posted 1 year ago by u/india_generic_g

am I the only one who found struggle harder than the injections

Discussion Cold Box ×7 Well Actually ×2

Genuine question, and the title is the question: am I the only one who found struggle harder than the injections.

8kg over 15 months and honestly the most useful marker was that stairs stopped being a decision.

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.

Weighing under consistent conditions — same time, same state, same scale — removes most of the apparent variability people find distressing.

Not medical advice, obviously, and nothing here is approved for human use. One person with a spreadsheet.

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u/rekha_teixeira102 points·1 year 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/meera_karlsen58 points·1 year ago

This. Waist measurement kept moving through my longest stall and it was the only thing that kept me sane.

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u/blunt_coldbox16 points·1 year ago

non-scale victories count and they are the ones people remember

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u/india_generic_gOP0 points·1 year ago

Small correction, kindly meant: that is a range rather than a regain. Weight moves day to day in everybody.

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u/runa_grimaldi1 point·1 year ago

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

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u/week_one_wanda52 points·1 year ago

Right — the non-scale victories are the ones I remember. The numbers all blur together after a while.

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u/india_generic_g20 points·1 year ago

How long was the stall before it moved?

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u/nadia_norgaard14 points·1 year ago

Gently disagree with the framing — that is not a plateau, that is a month. They are different things.

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u/hassan_ostergaard23 points·1 year ago

Agreed that goal weights picked at the start are guesses. Mine was, and I revised it twice.

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u/lucia_bruun32 points·1 year ago

Agreed — text only was the best rule this board ever adopted. The posts are about what actually changed rather than about lighting.

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u/lane_map_larrylogistics22 points·1 year ago

Push back on the goal number. You chose it before you knew what any of this felt like.

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u/india_generic_gOP-35 points·1 year ago

Agreed — text only was the best rule this board ever adopted.

This is the one I would put in the sidebar. The middle is where everyone lives.

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u/nadia_norgaard1 point·1 year ago

the clothes change before the number does

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u/analog_alphabet1 point·1 year ago

Wrote down one non-scale thing every week. Reading a year of those back was more affecting than any number.

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u/ismael_eriksen1 point·1 year ago

goal weights chosen at week one are usually guesses

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u/india_generic_gOP17 points·1 year ago

That is a waist measurement, not a weight, and the thread has been comparing them as though they were the same.

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u/aleksi_eriksen9 points·1 year ago

Correction: 15kg over 15 months is a different claim from 15kg in a month, and the post reads as the second.

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u/marta_marchand2 points·1 year ago

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

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u/nayeli_iyer29 points·1 year ago

Not convinced comparison helps here. The people posting the fastest results are the tail of a distribution, not the middle.

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u/gustav_cardoso19 points·1 year ago

progress is not linear and nobody’s is

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u/hassan_chowdhury17 points·1 year ago·edited

Stalled for 7 weeks and measured my waist out of stubbornness. It had moved. The scale had not.

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u/dose_diary_danaMOD13 points·1 year ago

Left up. It is a milestone post with a timeframe attached, which is all we ask.

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u/receptor_bias_rick6 points·1 year ago

measurements beat photographs for actually tracking anything

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