the progress thing finally clicked for me and I want to write it down
Thinking out loud about this: the progress thing finally clicked for me and I want to write it down. 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…
What to measure if you want to stay sane through the flat parts.
Weight, under consistent conditions, no more than weekly. Waist, monthly — it frequently keeps moving when the scale does not. And one non-scale thing a week written down: a garment, a staircase, a distance, an ordinary task that got easier.
A year of those three is a far better record than a year of daily weights, and reading the third column back is the part that actually means something. The daily number is noise dressed up as information, and it has ruined more months on this board than any plateau.
Small correction, kindly meant: that is a range rather than a regain. Weight moves day to day in everybody.
Did the clothes change before the number did for you too?
Cosigning on timeframe. "12kg" means something completely different over 12 months than over one.
the middle is the part nobody posts and everybody lives in
How are you keeping track — spreadsheet, notebook, nothing?