small win: non-scale victory stopped being a problem at week 61
Check-in as promised in the title: small win: non-scale victory stopped being a problem at week 61.
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.
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
Circumference measurements often continue changing during a scale plateau because composition changes are not visible on a bathroom scale.
Removed an image link. This board is text only by community rule and that has been reaffirmed twice.
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 timeframe matters as much as the number
the first person to notice was me, months after it started
Correction: 13kg over 18 months is a different claim from 13kg in a month, and the post reads as the second.
38kg over 16 months and honestly the most useful marker was that stairs stopped being a decision.
Stalled for 24 weeks and measured my waist out of stubbornness. It had moved. The scale had not.
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.
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.
Yes. Clothes fitting differently arrives well before the scale acknowledges anything.
Small correction, kindly meant: that is a range rather than a regain. Weight moves day to day in everybody.
Small correction, kindly meant: that is a range rather than a regain.
This is the one I would put in the sidebar. The middle is where everyone lives.
That is a waist measurement, not a weight, and the thread has been comparing them as though they were the same.
I would not treat a two-kilo range as a regain. Weight varies day to day in everybody.
I would not treat a two-kilo range as a regain.
dexa_twice_yearly is right that the clothes tell you before the scale does.
Same. Comparison ruined about three months for me until I stopped reading the fastest posts.
On the goal weight you set in week one.
You chose it with the least information you will ever have about how this feels, what is sustainable, and what your body does at different points. Revising it is not moving the goalposts; it is updating a prediction, which is what you are supposed to do with predictions.
Several of the longest-standing members here have revised theirs more than once, in both directions, and describe the revision as the point at which the whole thing became manageable. What the number should be is a conversation with somebody who knows your history — but that it is allowed to change is something this board can tell you.
the clothes change before the number does
The first thing I noticed was a jacket doing up. The scale had been flat for three weeks at that point.
Wrote down one non-scale thing every week. Reading a year of those back was more affecting than any number.
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