[Discussion] we are measuring milestone at the wrong time and calling it noise
we are measuring milestone at the wrong time and calling it noise, and I am aware this is a minority view on this board.
Stalled for 20 weeks and measured my waist out of stubbornness. It had moved. The scale had not.
Stopped reading the fastest posts here for a month and my mood improved considerably.
Nobody noticed for months. Then several people noticed in the same fortnight, which was strange and quite nice.
Ask me anything specific. Anything general I will probably get wrong.
best — the order this archive was captured in
Weighing under consistent conditions — same time, same state, same scale — removes most of the apparent variability people find distressing.
The first thing I noticed was a jacket doing up. The scale had been flat for three weeks at that point.
Yes. Clothes fitting differently arrives well before the scale acknowledges anything.
Yes. The middle is where everybody actually lives and almost nobody posts from it.
Agreed that goal weights picked at the start are guesses. Mine was, and I revised it twice.
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.
Removed an image link. This board is text only by community rule and that has been reaffirmed twice.
The boring middle lasted the longest and it is the part I am most proud of.
Cosigning on timeframe. "17kg" means something completely different over 8 months than over one.
say what changed for you, not what should change for others
Rate of change is not a virtue.
line_demir is right that the clothes tell you before the scale does.
Gently disagree with the framing — that is not a plateau, that is a month. They are different things.
waist is the measurement that keeps moving during a scale stall
Agreed — text only was the best rule this board ever adopted. The posts are about what actually changed rather than about lighting.
Careful — that reads as advice about what someone else should do, and this board is for describing your own.
19kg over 17 months and honestly the most useful marker was that stairs stopped being a decision.
goal weights chosen at week one are usually guesses
non-scale victories count and they are the ones people remember
Careful — that reads as advice about what someone else should do, and this board is for describing your own.
This is the one I would put in the sidebar. The middle is where everyone lives.
Same. Comparison ruined about three months for me until I stopped reading the fastest posts.
This is the one I would put in the sidebar.
Agreed — measurements over photographs, every time, for anybody trying to actually track something.
Correcting my own post above — that was week 69, not the week I wrote. Same story, wrong number.
Text-only posting removes the comparison mechanism that makes image boards difficult, which is why this community adopted the rule and has kept it.
My goal weight at week one was a number I made up. I have revised it twice since and I am happier for it.
the clothes change before the number does
the clothes change before the number does
Slight disagreement: that is a month, not a plateau, and calling it one makes it heavier than it is.
Slight disagreement: that is a month, not a plateau, and calling it one makes it heavier than it is.
Adding the thing I wish someone had said to me — the goal you picked at week one was a guess.
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