what changed for me between month 11 and month 17
Genuine question, and the title is the question: what changed for me between month 11 and month 17.
Went up too fast because the scale had stalled and I was impatient. Got constipation I did not need and a data point I could not interpret.
Nothing here is medical advice, and the honest version of most of these posts is that they describe consequences rather than causes.
Escalating faster than the schedule allows is the most frequently described regret on the site, and the mechanism is straightforward: tolerance is the limiting factor and it does not care about impatience.
Sceptical readings welcome. The confident ones are the ones I distrust.
best — the order this archive was captured in
Left up, flaired Correction. The original stays with it — that is how this board works.
Agreed. The failures are the part that is missing from every other board, which is why this one matters.
Are you being harder on yourself than you would be on somebody else posting this?
Most of what gets posted here is procedural rather than dramatic: a step skipped, a document not requested, a temperature not considered, a pace chosen out of impatience.
Was there a point where the information was available and you did not look?
The pattern in the money-loss posts, since there is one.
Almost none of them involve a documented supplier with an independent testing record. They involve an unfamiliar shop, a price that seemed good, a decision made in a hurry, and no small first order.
The procedural fix is the one this site keeps repeating: buy small from anybody new, ask for a batch-specific document before paying, test what arrives, and only then commit. It is boring, it costs a small order, and it would have prevented most of what is written on this board. Where a name has nothing verifiable on file, that is a statement about the evidence available rather than about anyone’s conduct — and keeping that distinction is why these reports stay useful.
Yes. Buy small first. It is the cheapest lesson on the site and it keeps being learned the expensive way.