[Results] two years, and the second year mattered more than the first
two years, and the second year mattered more than the first, and the part I actually want to talk about is at the bottom.
The boring middle lasted the longest and it is the part I am most proud of.
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.
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.
If somebody has the same thing measured a different way, post it next to mine and we will see whether they agree.
best — the order this archive was captured in
Weighing under consistent conditions — same time, same state, same scale — removes most of the apparent variability people find distressing.
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.
The first thing I noticed was a jacket doing up. The scale had been flat for three weeks at that point.
My goal weight at week one was a number I made up. I have revised it twice since and I am happier for it.
Yes. Clothes fitting differently arrives well before the scale acknowledges anything.
Wrote down one non-scale thing every week. Reading a year of those back was more affecting than any number.
Nobody has to post a starting weight, and comments demanding one get removed.
Same. Comparison ruined about three months for me until I stopped reading the fastest posts.
This. Waist measurement kept moving through my longest stall and it was the only thing that kept me sane.
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.
What was the non-scale thing that told you first?
Cosigning on timeframe. "28kg" means something completely different over 14 months than over one.
That is a waist measurement, not a weight, and the thread has been comparing them as though they were the same.
How are you keeping track — spreadsheet, notebook, nothing?
Small correction, kindly meant: that is a range rather than a regain. Weight moves day to day in everybody.
Stopped reading the fastest posts here for a month and my mood improved considerably.
Nothing on this board is medical advice, and rate, target and method are questions for somebody who knows your history.
text only here, by community rule, and it works better than you would think
Circumference measurements often continue changing during a scale plateau because composition changes are not visible on a bathroom scale.
the timeframe matters as much as the number
the clothes change before the number does
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