week 53 check-in — 10kg down, fatigue manageable, one thing confusing me
week 53 check-in — 10kg down, fatigue manageable, one thing confusing me, and the part I actually want to talk about is at the bottom.
Pulling the figures out of the title: week 53 and 10kg. All of it is written down as it happened rather than reconstructed.
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.
Where a supplier has no independent testing on file, that is a statement about the evidence and not about their conduct. Saying it the second way is how this board would stop being useful.
Would rather be corrected in public than confident in private.
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?
Accused the wrong party publicly and it was my storage. Correcting it here was the most uncomfortable post I have made and the right one.
Cosigning that going too fast is the most repeated regret on the whole site.
Accused the wrong party publicly and it was my storage.
ruben_brandt is right that it was procedural. The procedure was not written down anywhere for you to follow.
Chased the scale instead of the measurements for a year and made myself miserable for no additional progress.
Did you write anything down at the time?
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.
That was a hold rather than a loss, and it resolved. Updating rather than deleting.
Careful with naming anybody. The board rule holds even here, and especially here.
I would not generalise from one bad month to a rule. The rest of your process sounds fine.
somebody will read this at the point you were at, and it will help
Push back: you did not lose that money by being stupid. You lost it to a shop with nothing verifiable on file, which is a different thing.
the fridge failure story happens every summer
A public correction of a wrong accusation is worth more to the record than the original report, because it is the thing that keeps the rest of the archive trustworthy.
Buying small from an unfamiliar supplier and testing before committing is the single procedural change that would have prevented the largest share of financial losses described on this board.
Same. The thing that went wrong for me was procedural and boring and it cost me a lot.
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