[Milestone] came off two blood pressure meds and one statin
Check-in as promised in the title: came off two blood pressure meds and one statin.
Nothing on this board is medical advice, and rate, target and method are questions for somebody who knows your history.
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.
The first thing I noticed was a jacket doing up. The scale had been flat for three weeks at that point.
If two or three other people have done the same thing we might actually learn something. Alone it is an anecdote.
best — the order this archive was captured in
Nobody has to post a starting weight, and comments demanding one get removed.
non-scale victories count and they are the ones people remember
How are you keeping track — spreadsheet, notebook, nothing?
Is the goal you set at the start still the goal?
How long was the stall before it moved?
Yes. Clothes fitting differently arrives well before the scale acknowledges anything.
text only here, by community rule, and it works better than you would think
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.
Text-only posting removes the comparison mechanism that makes image boards difficult, which is why this community adopted the rule and has kept it.
Push back on the goal number. You chose it before you knew what any of this felt like.
the clothes change before the number does
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.
The boring middle lasted the longest and it is the part I am most proud of.
What was the non-scale thing that told you first?
the first person to notice was me, months after it started
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