someone explain non-scale victory to me like I have not read a paper in years
someone explain non-scale victory to me like I have not read a paper in years, and I want the answer with the reasoning attached rather than just the conclusion.
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.
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.
Circumference measurements often continue changing during a scale plateau because composition changes are not visible on a bathroom scale.
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
Weighing under consistent conditions — same time, same state, same scale — removes most of the apparent variability people find distressing.
the clothes change before the number does
Nothing on this board is medical advice, and rate, target and method are questions for somebody who knows your history.
14kg over 15 months and honestly the most useful marker was that stairs stopped being a decision.
Small correction, kindly meant: that is a range rather than a regain. Weight moves day to day in everybody.
Did the clothes change before the number did for you too?
Agreed — text only was the best rule this board ever adopted. The posts are about what actually changed rather than about lighting.
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.
Nobody noticed for months. Then several people noticed in the same fortnight, which was strange and quite nice.
Nobody noticed for months.
Adding the thing I wish someone had said to me — the goal you picked at week one was a guess.
waist is the measurement that keeps moving during a scale stall
Yes. Clothes fitting differently arrives well before the scale acknowledges anything.
Not convinced comparison helps here. The people posting the fastest results are the tail of a distribution, not the middle.
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