[Non-Scale Win] my knees stopped hurting and i cried about it
my knees stopped hurting and i cried about it. Change my mind, genuinely — I have no stake in being right about this.
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.
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.
I will update this if the picture changes rather than quietly leaving it up.
best — the order this archive was captured in
Nothing on this board is medical advice, and rate, target and method are questions for somebody who knows your history.
text only here, by community rule, and it works better than you would think
a plateau is not a failure and it is not a personality
My goal weight at week one was a number I made up. I have revised it twice since and I am happier for it.
Text-only posting removes the comparison mechanism that makes image boards difficult, which is why this community adopted the rule and has kept it.
Disagree that the pace matters as much as you think. Durable is better than fast and nobody posts about durable.
waist is the measurement that keeps moving during a scale stall
This. Waist measurement kept moving through my longest stall and it was the only thing that kept me sane.
14kg over 16 months and honestly the most useful marker was that stairs stopped being a decision.
non-scale victories count and they are the ones people remember
the timeframe matters as much as the number
the timeframe matters as much as the number
This is the one I would put in the sidebar. The middle is where everyone lives.