[PSA] milestone is not what most of this community thinks it is
milestone is not what most of this community thinks it is. Two minutes of reading now saves an argument later.
39kg over 8 months and honestly the most useful marker was that stairs stopped being a decision.
The first thing I noticed was a jacket doing up. The scale had been flat for three weeks at that point.
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.
Happy to answer the boring questions. Those are usually the ones worth asking.
best — the order this archive was captured in
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.
Removed an image link. This board is text only by community rule and that has been reaffirmed twice.
Removed an image link.
This is the one I would put in the sidebar. The middle is where everyone lives.
Weighing under consistent conditions — same time, same state, same scale — removes most of the apparent variability people find distressing.
The boring middle lasted the longest and it is the part I am most proud of.
This. Waist measurement kept moving through my longest stall and it was the only thing that kept me sane.
Disagree that the pace matters as much as you think. Durable is better than fast and nobody posts about durable.
Nothing on this board is medical advice, and rate, target and method are questions for somebody who knows your history.
I would not treat a two-kilo range as a regain. Weight varies day to day in everybody.
Push back on the goal number. You chose it before you knew what any of this felt like.
Gently disagree with the framing — that is not a plateau, that is a month. They are different things.
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.
goal weights chosen at week one are usually guesses
Did the clothes change before the number did for you too?
What was the non-scale thing that told you first?
a plateau is not a failure and it is not a personality
What timeframe is that over?
the middle is the part nobody posts and everybody lives in
celebrate the boring milestones, they are the durable ones
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