[Non-Scale Win] tied my own shoes without holding my breath
Something I keep coming back to: tied my own shoes without holding my breath.
Weighing under consistent conditions — same time, same state, same scale — removes most of the apparent variability people find distressing.
Nothing on this board is medical advice, and rate, target and method are questions for somebody who knows your history.
Text-only posting removes the comparison mechanism that makes image boards difficult, which is why this community adopted the rule and has kept it.
Ask me anything specific. Anything general I will probably get wrong.
best — the order this archive was captured in
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.
The boring middle lasted the longest and it is the part I am most proud of.
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Are you measuring anything other than weight?
What was the non-scale thing that told you first?
Left up. It is a milestone post with a timeframe attached, which is all we ask.
Right — the non-scale victories are the ones I remember. The numbers all blur together after a while.
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.
Disagree that the pace matters as much as you think. Durable is better than fast and nobody posts about durable.
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.
This. Waist measurement kept moving through my longest stall and it was the only thing that kept me sane.
Stopped reading the fastest posts here for a month and my mood improved considerably.
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.
the first person to notice was me, months after it started
I would not treat a two-kilo range as a regain. Weight varies day to day in everybody.
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