[Meta] proposal — a flair for milestone posts
proposal — a flair for milestone posts. Comments open, and the wording is genuinely up for discussion.
19kg over 15 months and honestly the most useful marker was that stairs stopped being a decision.
Stopped reading the fastest posts here for a month and my mood improved considerably.
My goal weight at week one was a number I made up. I have revised it twice since and I am happier for it.
Ask me anything specific. Anything general I will probably get wrong.
best — the order this archive was captured in
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 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.
Push back on the goal number.
This is the one I would put in the sidebar. The middle is where everyone lives.
Nobody noticed for months. Then several people noticed in the same fortnight, which was strange and quite nice.
Wrote down one non-scale thing every week. Reading a year of those back was more affecting than any number.