someone explain goal to me like I have not read a paper in years
someone explain goal to me like I have not read a paper in years, and I want the answer with the reasoning attached rather than just the conclusion.
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.
Nobody noticed for months. Then several people noticed in the same fortnight, which was strange and quite nice.
Wrote down one non-scale thing every week. Reading a year of those back was more affecting than any number.
That is everything I have. The rest is opinion and I have tried to keep it out.
best — the order this archive was captured in
Nothing on this board is medical advice, and rate, target and method are questions for somebody who knows your history.
a milestone is whatever you decide it is
Stopped reading the fastest posts here for a month and my mood improved considerably.
Not convinced comparison helps here. The people posting the fastest results are the tail of a distribution, not the middle.
Is the goal you set at the start still the goal?
Stalled for 9 weeks and measured my waist out of stubbornness. It had moved. The scale had not.
Gently disagree with the framing — that is not a plateau, that is a month. They are different things.
Gently disagree with the framing — that is not a plateau, that is a month.
Adding the thing I wish someone had said to me — the goal you picked at week one was a guess.
Nobody has to post a starting weight, and comments demanding one get removed.
goal weights chosen at week one are usually guesses
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How long was the stall before it moved?
measurements beat photographs for actually tracking anything
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.
the first person to notice was me, months after it started
Careful — that reads as advice about what someone else should do, and this board is for describing your own.
Agreed that goal weights picked at the start are guesses. Mine was, and I revised it twice.
Same. Comparison ruined about three months for me until I stopped reading the fastest posts.
Same.
Slight disagreement: that is a month, not a plateau, and calling it one makes it heavier than it is.
The first thing I noticed was a jacket doing up. The scale had been flat for three weeks at that point.
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