anyone else notice progress kicking in around week 89
Check-in as promised in the title: anyone else notice progress kicking in around week 89.
On the goal weight you set in week one.
You chose it with the least information you will ever have about how this feels, what is sustainable, and what your body does at different points. Revising it is not moving the goalposts; it is updating a prediction, which is what you are supposed to do with predictions.
Several of the longest-standing members here have revised theirs more than once, in both directions, and describe the revision as the point at which the whole thing became manageable. What the number should be is a conversation with somebody who knows your history — but that it is allowed to change is something this board can tell you.
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.
Happy to answer the boring questions. Those are usually the ones worth asking.
best — the order this archive was captured in
Left up. It is a milestone post with a timeframe attached, which is all we ask.
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nobody owes anybody a starting weight
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.
a milestone is whatever you decide it is
Weighing under consistent conditions — same time, same state, same scale — removes most of the apparent variability people find distressing.
celebrate the boring milestones, they are the durable ones
celebrate the boring milestones, they are the durable ones
Slight disagreement: that is a month, not a plateau, and calling it one makes it heavier than it is.
Not convinced comparison helps here. The people posting the fastest results are the tail of a distribution, not the middle.
What to measure if you want to stay sane through the flat parts.
Weight, under consistent conditions, no more than weekly. Waist, monthly — it frequently keeps moving when the scale does not. And one non-scale thing a week written down: a garment, a staircase, a distance, an ordinary task that got easier.
A year of those three is a far better record than a year of daily weights, and reading the third column back is the part that actually means something. The daily number is noise dressed up as information, and it has ruined more months on this board than any plateau.
Cosigning on timeframe. "13kg" means something completely different over 13 months than over one.
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