the progress thing finally clicked for me and I want to write it down
Thinking out loud about this: the progress thing finally clicked for me and I want to write it down.
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.
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.
Circumference measurements often continue changing during a scale plateau because composition changes are not visible on a bathroom scale.
Please do not ask me what dose you should be on. I genuinely do not know and neither does anyone else here.
best — the order this archive was captured in
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.
Nobody has to post a starting weight, and comments demanding one get removed.
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.
Small correction, kindly meant: that is a range rather than a regain. Weight moves day to day in everybody.
Did the clothes change before the number did for you too?
Cosigning on timeframe. "12kg" means something completely different over 12 months than over one.
the middle is the part nobody posts and everybody lives in
How are you keeping track — spreadsheet, notebook, nothing?
Nothing on this board is medical advice, and rate, target and method are questions for somebody who knows your history.
Correction: 15kg over 17 months is a different claim from 15kg in a month, and the post reads as the second.
Text-only posting removes the comparison mechanism that makes image boards difficult, which is why this community adopted the rule and has kept it.
progress is not linear and nobody’s is
a plateau is not a failure and it is not a personality
Weighing under consistent conditions — same time, same state, same scale — removes most of the apparent variability people find distressing.
Weighing under consistent conditions — same time, same state, same scale — removes most of the apparent variability people find distressing.
This is the one I would put in the sidebar. The middle is where everyone lives.
Right — the non-scale victories are the ones I remember. The numbers all blur together after a while.
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