[PSA] struggle is not what most of this community thinks it is
struggle is not what most of this community thinks it is. Two minutes of reading now saves an argument later.
Weighing under consistent conditions — same time, same state, same scale — removes most of the apparent variability people find distressing.
Nothing on this board is medical advice, and rate, target and method are questions for somebody who knows your history.
Text-only posting removes the comparison mechanism that makes image boards difficult, which is why this community adopted the rule and has kept it.
If somebody has the same thing measured a different way, post it next to mine and we will see whether they agree.
best — the order this archive was captured in
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.
Cosigning on timeframe. "43kg" means something completely different over 14 months than over one.
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.
progress is not linear and nobody’s is
Circumference measurements often continue changing during a scale plateau because composition changes are not visible on a bathroom scale.
the middle is the part nobody posts and everybody lives in
How long was the stall before it moved?
the timeframe matters as much as the number
Correcting my own post above — that was week 71, not the week I wrote. Same story, wrong number.
Is the goal you set at the start still the goal?
non-scale victories count and they are the ones people remember
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.
Nobody has to post a starting weight, and comments demanding one get removed.
Correction: 25kg over 9 months is a different claim from 25kg in a month, and the post reads as the second.
How are you keeping track — spreadsheet, notebook, nothing?
Wrote down one non-scale thing every week. Reading a year of those back was more affecting than any number.
waist is the measurement that keeps moving during a scale stall
the first person to notice was me, months after it started
36kg over 15 months and honestly the most useful marker was that stairs stopped being a decision.
Nobody has to post a starting weight, and comments demanding one get removed.
Agreed — measurements over photographs, every time, for anybody trying to actually track something.
Why this board is text only, since new members ask every week.
A photograph invites comparison on things nobody can control — lighting, posture, where you carry weight, what you looked like before any of this. Text invites description of what changed for you: the jacket, the stairs, the measurement, the month it took.
The result is a board where the posts are about people’s actual experience rather than about images, and where nobody is competing on the wrong axis. It was a deliberate choice, it has been challenged periodically, and every time it has been kept.
Stopped reading the fastest posts here for a month and my mood improved considerably.
a milestone is whatever you decide it is
Yes. Clothes fitting differently arrives well before the scale acknowledges anything.
Push back on the goal number. You chose it before you knew what any of this felt like.
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