[Results] 39 weeks, 17kg, and progress was the hard part
Reporting in. 39 weeks, 17kg, and progress was the hard part. The relevant figures are 39 weeks and 17kg, and they come from the same log I have kept the whole time. Weighing under consistent conditions — same time, same state, same scale — removes most of the apparent variability people find distressing. Rate of…
Circumference measurements often continue changing during a scale plateau because composition changes are not visible on a bathroom scale.
What was the non-scale thing that told you first?
celebrate the boring milestones, they are the durable ones
non-scale victories count and they are the ones people remember
What timeframe is that over?
That is a waist measurement, not a weight, and the thread has been comparing them as though they were the same.
Small correction, kindly meant: that is a range rather than a regain. Weight moves day to day in everybody.
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a milestone is whatever you decide it is
measurements beat photographs for actually tracking anything
the first person to notice was me, months after it started
Wrote down one non-scale thing every week. Reading a year of those back was more affecting than any number.
measurements beat photographs for actually tracking anything
Agreed — measurements over photographs, every time, for anybody trying to actually track something.