[Struggle] regained 6kg over a winter and i am posting it anyway
regained 6kg over a winter and i am posting it anyway. Full detail below, and I have tried to keep the editorialising out of it.
Since the title puts numbers in the shop window: 6kg.
Wrote down one non-scale thing every week. Reading a year of those back was more affecting than any number.
Nobody noticed for months. Then several people noticed in the same fortnight, which was strange and quite nice.
Ask me anything specific. Anything general I will probably get wrong.
best — the order this archive was captured in
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.
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.
Gently disagree with the framing — that is not a plateau, that is a month. They are different things.
What are you actually celebrating today? Genuine question.
Push back on the goal number. You chose it before you knew what any of this felt like.
Stalled for 20 weeks and measured my waist out of stubbornness. It had moved. The scale had not.
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.
Removed advice aimed at another member. Describe your own experience here.
That is a waist measurement, not a weight, and the thread has been comparing them as though they were the same.
celebrate the boring milestones, they are the durable ones
The first thing I noticed was a jacket doing up. The scale had been flat for three weeks at that point.
My goal weight at week one was a number I made up. I have revised it twice since and I am happier for it.
Small correction, kindly meant: that is a range rather than a regain. Weight moves day to day in everybody.
Not convinced comparison helps here. The people posting the fastest results are the tail of a distribution, not the middle.
Stopped reading the fastest posts here for a month and my mood improved considerably.
Yes. Clothes fitting differently arrives well before the scale acknowledges anything.
Yes.
rasmus_mensah is right that the clothes tell you before the scale does.
Rate of change is not a virtue.
Adding the thing I wish someone had said to me — the goal you picked at week one was a guess.
Correcting my own post above — that was week 79, not the week I wrote. Same story, wrong number.
Disagree that the pace matters as much as you think. Durable is better than fast and nobody posts about durable.
The boring middle lasted the longest and it is the part I am most proud of.
I would not treat a two-kilo range as a regain. Weight varies day to day in everybody.
Careful — that reads as advice about what someone else should do, and this board is for describing your own.
18kg over 13 months and honestly the most useful marker was that stairs stopped being a decision.
a plateau is not a failure and it is not a personality
a plateau is not a failure and it is not a personality
Slight disagreement: that is a month, not a plateau, and calling it one makes it heavier than it is.
This. Waist measurement kept moving through my longest stall and it was the only thing that kept me sane.
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