genuine question about timeframe that I am slightly embarrassed to ask
Slightly embarrassed to be asking this, but: genuine question about timeframe that I am slightly embarrassed to ask.
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.
Would rather be corrected in public than confident in private.
best — the order this archive was captured in
Yes. The middle is where everybody actually lives and almost nobody posts from it.
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.
Why this board is text only, since new members ask every week.
Agreed — measurements over photographs, every time, for anybody trying to actually track something.
Is the goal you set at the start still the goal?
comparison is the thief of everything on a board like this
Is the goal you set at the start still the goal?
neha_rahimi is right that the clothes tell you before the scale does.
the timeframe matters as much as the number
Gently disagree with the framing — that is not a plateau, that is a month. They are different things.
Removed advice aimed at another member. Describe your own experience here.
Stopped reading the fastest posts here for a month and my mood improved considerably.
measurements beat photographs for actually tracking anything
Disagree that the pace matters as much as you think. Durable is better than fast and nobody posts about durable.
Disagree that the pace matters as much as you think.
Adding the thing I wish someone had said to me — the goal you picked at week one was a guess.
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.
That is a waist measurement, not a weight, and the thread has been comparing them as though they were the same.
say what changed for you, not what should change for others
Right — the non-scale victories are the ones I remember. The numbers all blur together after a while.
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.
Agreed — text only was the best rule this board ever adopted. The posts are about what actually changed rather than about lighting.
non-scale victories count and they are the ones people remember
a milestone is whatever you decide it is
Wrote down one non-scale thing every week. Reading a year of those back was more affecting than any number.
celebrate the boring milestones, they are the durable ones
Wrote down one non-scale thing every week.
This is the one I would put in the sidebar. The middle is where everyone lives.
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