week 18 check-in — 5kg down, nausea manageable, one thing confusing me
week 18 check-in — 5kg down, nausea manageable, one thing confusing me. This is a description of what happened to me and not a plan for anybody else.
Numbers, in the order they matter: week 18 and 5kg.
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.
Weighing under consistent conditions — same time, same state, same scale — removes most of the apparent variability people find distressing.
Not medical advice, obviously, and nothing here is approved for human use. One person with a spreadsheet.
best — the order this archive was captured in
Left up. It is a milestone post with a timeframe attached, which is all we ask.
text only here, by community rule, and it works better than you would think
celebrate the boring milestones, they are the durable ones
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.
That is a waist measurement, not a weight, and the thread has been comparing them as though they were the same.
Yes. Clothes fitting differently arrives well before the scale acknowledges anything.
Correcting my own post above — that was week 31, not the week I wrote. Same story, wrong number.
the timeframe matters as much as the number
Nothing on this board is medical advice, and rate, target and method are questions for somebody who knows your history.
Stopped reading the fastest posts here for a month and my mood improved considerably.
How long was the stall before it moved?
How long was the stall before it moved?
Adding the thing I wish someone had said to me — the goal you picked at week one was a guess.
waist is the measurement that keeps moving during a scale stall
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