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c/progresspics·posted 1 year ago by u/lucia_balogun

[Question] how do you actually verify timeframe

Milestone Well Actually ×9 The Quiet One ×1

Genuine question, and the title is the question: how do you actually verify timeframe.

Weighing under consistent conditions — same time, same state, same scale — removes most of the apparent variability people find distressing.

Circumference measurements often continue changing during a scale plateau because composition changes are not visible on a bathroom scale.

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.

Screenshot none of this. Read the whole thread, including the parts where I am told I am wrong.

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u/line_demir215 points·1 year ago

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.

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u/zaid_grimaldi-2 points·1 year ago

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.

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u/still_here_20261 point·1 year ago

This. Waist measurement kept moving through my longest stall and it was the only thing that kept me sane.

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[deleted]1 point·1 year ago

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u/ewan_hovland0 points·1 year ago

Careful — that reads as advice about what someone else should do, and this board is for describing your own.

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u/maren_ibarra101 points·1 year ago·edited

Gently disagree with the framing — that is not a plateau, that is a month. They are different things.

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u/cato_batista33 points·1 year ago

Yes. The middle is where everybody actually lives and almost nobody posts from it.

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u/dose_diary_danalog keeper67 points·1 year ago

the middle is the part nobody posts and everybody lives in

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u/greta_perrin18 points·1 year ago

Nothing on this board is medical advice, and rate, target and method are questions for somebody who knows your history.

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u/milos_vestergaard15 points·1 year ago

Not convinced comparison helps here. The people posting the fastest results are the tail of a distribution, not the middle.

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u/rasmus_kuipers8 points·1 year ago

Cosigning on timeframe. "45kg" means something completely different over 8 months than over one.

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u/elise_grimaldi2 points·1 year ago

Text-only posting removes the comparison mechanism that makes image boards difficult, which is why this community adopted the rule and has kept it.

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u/lina_ndiaye12 points·1 year ago

16kg over 9 months and honestly the most useful marker was that stairs stopped being a decision.

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u/kaia_wojcik55 points·1 year ago

That is a waist measurement, not a weight, and the thread has been comparing them as though they were the same.

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u/kaia_wojcik38 points·1 year ago

Agreed — text only was the best rule this board ever adopted. The posts are about what actually changed rather than about lighting.

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u/meera_karlsen32 points·1 year ago

celebrate the boring milestones, they are the durable ones

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u/santiago_szabo25 points·1 year ago

Small correction, kindly meant: that is a range rather than a regain. Weight moves day to day in everybody.

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u/rasmus_kuipers15 points·1 year ago·edited

Small correction, kindly meant: that is a range rather than a regain.

Slight disagreement: that is a month, not a plateau, and calling it one makes it heavier than it is.

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u/lina_ndiaye20 points·1 year ago

Disagree that the pace matters as much as you think. Durable is better than fast and nobody posts about durable.

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