[Results] 14 months, 41kg, one boring spreadsheet, no photos by design
14 months, 41kg, one boring spreadsheet, no photos by design. Posting the boring middle of the process, because the internet is full of the start and the end and nothing else.
Figures up front so nobody has to dig: 14 months and 41kg.
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.
Happy to answer the boring questions. Those are usually the ones worth asking.
best — the order this archive was captured in
Why this board is text only, since new members ask every week.
A photograph invites comparison on things nobody can control — lighting, posture, where you carry weight, what you looked like before any of this. Text invites description of what changed for you: the jacket, the stairs, the measurement, the month it took.
The result is a board where the posts are about people’s actual experience rather than about images, and where nobody is competing on the wrong axis. It was a deliberate choice, it has been challenged periodically, and every time it has been kept.
Small correction, kindly meant: that is a range rather than a regain. Weight moves day to day in everybody.
the middle is the part nobody posts and everybody lives in
Did the clothes change before the number did for you too?
Left up. It is a milestone post with a timeframe attached, which is all we ask.
non-scale victories count and they are the ones people remember
non-scale victories count and they are the ones people remember
Agreed — measurements over photographs, every time, for anybody trying to actually track something.
Is the goal you set at the start still the goal?
Agreed — text only was the best rule this board ever adopted. The posts are about what actually changed rather than about lighting.
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.
Correction: 26kg over 15 months is a different claim from 26kg in a month, and the post reads as the second.
How long was the stall before it moved?
the clothes change before the number does
the timeframe matters as much as the number