please say it. this channel exists for exactly this and nobody here is bored of hearing it
#wins 2025-03-23
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Highlights from this day
- chain_of_custody — thats a hundred pounds. thats an actual person 21:47
- blank_run — thank you for phrasing it that way. it is genuinely the correct phrasing 22:23
- mg_per_ml — then that is the actual win and the 45 is the receipt 23:50
- thursday_thea — im going to go and be normal about that in private 23:52
coming back after 24 months to say i kept it off, is that useful to anybody
i measure my waist as well because it kept moving through two separate stalls, happy to be corrected
i log kilos because i think in kilos and put pounds in brackets so nobody has to convert anything
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my wedding ring fits again after 10 months, does anyone else measure things that arent weight
i want to say something in here but im worried about sounding like im showing off
does anyone have a milestone they were embarrassed to admit mattered
down 35 total and about half of that came in the first four months. it slowed after that and that was fine
size 22 to size 14 over about eighteen months. sizes are not consistent between shops so i only use the one shop
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no side effects at all is a legitimate report and it belongs here as much as the hard ones do
honest caveat on mine: i also started walking and lifting, so my numbers are not a clean read on the drug
the ring fitting again was worth more to me than any number on the scale ever was
somebody talked me out of quitting at week three and i never said thank you properly
well done
update on the earlier thing half a stone in 10 weeks sounds slow written down and felt enormous while it was happening
the compliments were harder than i expected and nobody warns you about that part
right so does the room want the numbers or just the story
down 43 since 7 months ago, whats a sensible thing to celebrate at
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i stopped weighing daily at about month six and my mood improved more than my numbers did
quick one 10kg is about 22lb and i still get that conversion wrong at least once a month
21:32thursday_thea joined
hello. i was in here through most of 2024 and then vanished. long story, mostly work
you did not vanish, you just stopped typing. welcome back
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i kept going the whole time, i just couldnt face logging it
45.2kg down as of sunday
FORTY FIVE
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thats a hundred pounds. thats an actual person
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milestone logged for @thursday_thea: 45 kg cumulative. that is the 11th time a member has crossed 45 kg in #wins since the archive opened.
11th, so not special, which is somehow nicer than being special
clothes wise where did you land
went from a 24 to a 14 in UK sizes. shoe size dropped too which nobody warns you about
shoe size?? really
half a size. i went through two pairs of trainers this year for no good reason
the shoe thing is real and it always surprises people
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the other bit i wanted to say carefully. my A1c came down
58 mmol/mol at the start of 2024, 41 at my last one
thats out of the diabetes range into normal-ish isnt it
thats what i was told, yes. but im not going to say the drug did that on its own because i also changed a lot of what i eat and started walking
thank you for phrasing it that way. it is genuinely the correct phrasing
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weight loss, drug effect and behaviour change all move A1c and you cannot separate them from a single persons numbers
trials separate them. one member cannot
is there a trial where A1c was the point
not that one, that was cardiovascular events, but its the standard example of why outcome trials exist and personal anecdotes dont substitute
and that one is the kidney side, for anyone whose eGFR came up and is wondering whether thats a known thing
mine did actually. slightly. i wasnt going to mention it
mention it. just mention it as your number and not as a mechanism
noted
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for anyone newer reading this later — @thursday_thea just modelled the house style. numbers yes, causal claims no
back to the not-being-able-to-face-logging-it thing. that was a year of doing the work with no audience at all
yeah. the quiet year was harder than the loud one honestly
then that is the actual win and the 45 is the receipt
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im going to go and be normal about that in private
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standard procedure