[Struggle] hit goal and immediately felt worse. did not expect that.
Posting this as a discussion rather than a claim: hit goal and immediately felt worse. did not expect that. 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…
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.
Nothing on this board is medical advice, and rate, target and method are questions for somebody who knows your history.
Circumference measurements often continue changing during a scale plateau because composition changes are not visible on a bathroom scale.
How long was the stall before it moved?
goal weights chosen at week one are usually guesses
the middle is the part nobody posts and everybody lives in