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c/progresspics·posted 5 months ago by u/analog_alphabet

[Question] how do you actually verify milestone

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Trying to get a straight answer on this: how do you actually verify milestone.

My goal weight at week one was a number I made up. I have revised it twice since and I am happier for it.

Stalled for 23 weeks and measured my waist out of stubbornness. It had moved. The scale had not.

The first thing I noticed was a jacket doing up. The scale had been flat for three weeks at that point.

Tell me where this is wrong. That is the useful part of posting it.

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u/gentle_correctionMOD44 points·5 months ago

Nobody has to post a starting weight, and comments demanding one get removed.

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u/yara_antonsen0 points·5 months ago

Nobody has to post a starting weight, and comments demanding one get removed.

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

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u/analog_alphabetOP1 point·5 months ago

Is the goal you set at the start still the goal?

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u/rekha_teixeira23 points·5 months ago

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.

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u/farid_kuipers16 points·5 months ago

the middle is the part nobody posts and everybody lives in

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u/zeynep_villalobos5 points·5 months ago·edited

the first person to notice was me, months after it started

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u/zaid_grimaldi2 points·5 months ago

the first person to notice was me, months after it started

Agreed — measurements over photographs, every time, for anybody trying to actually track something.

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u/hsa_math21 points·5 months ago

waist is the measurement that keeps moving during a scale stall

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u/analog_alphabetOP12 points·5 months ago

Did the clothes change before the number did for you too?

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u/hsa_math4 points·5 months ago

a plateau is not a failure and it is not a personality

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u/ferran_mensah12 points·5 months 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/rekha_teixeira10 points·5 months ago

celebrate the boring milestones, they are the durable ones

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u/georgi_adebayo3 points·5 months ago

Yes. Clothes fitting differently arrives well before the scale acknowledges anything.

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u/zofia_lindholm2 points·5 months 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/farid_kuipers0 points·5 months ago

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

Adding the thing I wish someone had said to me — the goal you picked at week one was a guess.

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u/kavya_radich1 point·5 months ago

measurements beat photographs for actually tracking anything

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u/wanjiru_osei1 point·5 months 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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u/kavya_radich2 points·5 months 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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