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c/progresspics·submitted 1 year ago by u/elise_ramos

[Discussion] progress is doing more work than we give it credit for

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progress is doing more work than we give it credit for, which sounds obvious until you try to state the evidence for it. 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. Stalled for 10 weeks and measured my waist…

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u/anders_karlsen43 points·1 year 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/georgi_adebayo20 points·1 year ago

the timeframe matters as much as the number

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u/elise_ramosOP24 points·1 year ago

Correcting my own post above — that was week 77, not the week I wrote. Same story, wrong number.

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u/wanjiru_osei35 points·1 year ago

comparison is the thief of everything on a board like this

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u/anya_correia27 points·1 year ago

Circumference measurements often continue changing during a scale plateau because composition changes are not visible on a bathroom scale.

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u/hassan_chowdhury17 points·1 year ago

Push back on the goal number. You chose it before you knew what any of this felt like.

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