[Question] struggle — what am I missing here
Slightly embarrassed to be asking this, but: struggle — what am I missing here.
The boring middle lasted the longest and it is the part I am most proud of.
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.
What to measure if you want to stay sane through the flat parts.
Weight, under consistent conditions, no more than weekly. Waist, monthly — it frequently keeps moving when the scale does not. And one non-scale thing a week written down: a garment, a staircase, a distance, an ordinary task that got easier.
A year of those three is a far better record than a year of daily weights, and reading the third column back is the part that actually means something. The daily number is noise dressed up as information, and it has ruined more months on this board than any plateau.
Corrections welcome, especially the pedantic ones. Pedantry is how this board earns its reputation.
best — the order this archive was captured in
Circumference measurements often continue changing during a scale plateau because composition changes are not visible on a bathroom scale.
Circumference measurements often continue changing during a scale plateau because composition changes are not visible on a bathroom scale.
Adding the thing I wish someone had said to me — the goal you picked at week one was a guess.
goal weights chosen at week one are usually guesses
non-scale victories count and they are the ones people remember
Nobody noticed for months. Then several people noticed in the same fortnight, which was strange and quite nice.
Agreed — text only was the best rule this board ever adopted. The posts are about what actually changed rather than about lighting.
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.
A goal weight chosen before starting is a prediction made with the least information you will ever have.
ewan_hovland is right that the clothes tell you before the scale does.