[Struggle] eight weeks, 2kg, doing everything right, and it is grinding me down
Six-word version is the title — eight weeks, 2kg, doing everything right, and it is grinding me down — and the rest is context.
The relevant figures are 2kg, and they come from the same log I have kept the whole time.
13kg over 15 months and honestly the most useful marker was that stairs stopped being a decision.
Nothing on this board is medical advice, and rate, target and method are questions for somebody who knows your history.
Please do not ask me what dose you should be on. I genuinely do not know and neither does anyone else here.
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.
Yes. Clothes fitting differently arrives well before the scale acknowledges anything.
Push back on the goal number. You chose it before you knew what any of this felt like.
Agreed — text only was the best rule this board ever adopted. The posts are about what actually changed rather than about lighting.
the clothes change before the number does
nobody owes anybody a starting weight
Weighing under consistent conditions — same time, same state, same scale — removes most of the apparent variability people find distressing.
comparison is the thief of everything on a board like this
text only here, by community rule, and it works better than you would think
Careful — that reads as advice about what someone else should do, and this board is for describing your own.
Did the clothes change before the number did for you too?
Small correction, kindly meant: that is a range rather than a regain. Weight moves day to day in everybody.
the middle is the part nobody posts and everybody lives in
How long was the stall before it moved?
Same. Comparison ruined about three months for me until I stopped reading the fastest posts.
a milestone is whatever you decide it is
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.
Yes. The middle is where everybody actually lives and almost nobody posts from it.
Disagree that the pace matters as much as you think. Durable is better than fast and nobody posts about durable.
Stalled for 23 weeks and measured my waist out of stubbornness. It had moved. The scale had not.
Stalled for 23 weeks and measured my waist out of stubbornness.
india_generic_g is right that the clothes tell you before the scale does.
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