switched from 1.0mg to 2.4mg and nausea got better, not worse
switched from 1.0mg to 2.4mg and nausea got better, not worse. Making the case below, and I expect to lose some of it in the comments.
Numbers, in the order they matter: 1.0mg and 2.4mg.
Wrote down one non-scale thing every week. Reading a year of those back was more affecting than any number.
Nobody noticed for months. Then several people noticed in the same fortnight, which was strange and quite nice.
Not medical advice, obviously, and nothing here is approved for human use. One person with a spreadsheet.
best — the order this archive was captured in
Weighing under consistent conditions — same time, same state, same scale — removes most of the apparent variability people find distressing.
Weighing under consistent conditions — same time, same state, same scale — removes most of the apparent variability people find distressing.
This is the one I would put in the sidebar. The middle is where everyone lives.
Correction: 18kg over 16 months is a different claim from 18kg in a month, and the post reads as the second.
Correction: 18kg over 16 months is a different claim from 18kg in a month, and the post reads as the second.
Agreed — measurements over photographs, every time, for anybody trying to actually track something.
Nothing on this board is medical advice, and rate, target and method are questions for somebody who knows your history.
Removed an image link. This board is text only by community rule and that has been reaffirmed twice.
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.
Small correction, kindly meant: that is a range rather than a regain. Weight moves day to day in everybody.
Agreed that goal weights picked at the start are guesses. Mine was, and I revised it twice.
Not convinced comparison helps here. The people posting the fastest results are the tail of a distribution, not the middle.
Why this board is text only, since new members ask every week.
A photograph invites comparison on things nobody can control — lighting, posture, where you carry weight, what you looked like before any of this. Text invites description of what changed for you: the jacket, the stairs, the measurement, the month it took.
The result is a board where the posts are about people’s actual experience rather than about images, and where nobody is competing on the wrong axis. It was a deliberate choice, it has been challenged periodically, and every time it has been kept.
say what changed for you, not what should change for others
Why this board is text only, since new members ask every week.
Adding the thing I wish someone had said to me — the goal you picked at week one was a guess.
Why this board is text only, since new members ask every week.
receptor_bias_rick is right that the clothes tell you before the scale does.
measurements beat photographs for actually tracking anything
Careful — that reads as advice about what someone else should do, and this board is for describing your own.
What are you actually celebrating today? Genuine question.
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.
I would not treat a two-kilo range as a regain. Weight varies day to day in everybody.
That is a waist measurement, not a weight, and the thread has been comparing them as though they were the same.
The first thing I noticed was a jacket doing up. The scale had been flat for three weeks at that point.
text only here, by community rule, and it works better than you would think
Correcting my own post above — that was week 35, not the week I wrote. Same story, wrong number.
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
25kg over 6 months and honestly the most useful marker was that stairs stopped being a decision.
Gently disagree with the framing — that is not a plateau, that is a month. They are different things.
Yes. The middle is where everybody actually lives and almost nobody posts from it.
goal weights chosen at week one are usually guesses
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