slow is fine
#wins 2025-07-30
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- hydrate_hana — i was the one who nearly quit at week three and now i am the one saying hold, which i find funny, take that with a pinch of salt 20:32
- crimp_top — does the room want the numbers or just the story 22:18
- crimp_top — blood pressure was 148 over 94 at baseline and 126 over 80 today, is that the weight or coincidence 22:27
- crimp_top — down 25 since 18 months ago, whats a sensible thing to celebrate at 22:44
i stopped weighing daily at about month six and my mood improved more than my numbers did
my milestone was tying my shoes sitting upright. it is not an endpoint in any trial
ring fitting is the best one
congratulations, genuinely. and thank you for putting the caveats in, most people do not bother
is it weird that the clothes size mattered more to me than the number did
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the thing nobody tells you is that the wins slow down and you have to learn to like the maintenance, i could be wrong
congratulations, genuinely. and thank you for putting the caveats in, most people do not bother
bloods, blood pressure and the stairs all moved before the scale did anything interesting
repeat sleep study came back better, has anyone else moved out of the range they were in
i was the one who nearly quit at week three and now i am the one saying hold, which i find funny, take that with a pinch of salt
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thats not showing off
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somebody talked me out of quitting at week three and i never said thank you properly
thats the win
careful with the claiming though, mine could easily be the weight rather than the drug and i cannot separate the two
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size 22 to size 14 over about eighteen months. sizes are not consistent between shops so i only use the one shop
congrats
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i was down 43 at month six and then nothing at all for eleven weeks. it moved again. the eleven weeks were not a failure
40 down in 15 months and honestly the stairs were the bit that got me, not the scale, thats one data point
blood pressure went from 148 over 94 to 124 over 78 across about a year and my gp took me off one of the two tablets
months not weeks
i want to say something in here but im worried about sounding like im showing off
nearly quit at week three, the nausea was awful, somebody here told me to hold rather than push. month 20 now
went from stopping halfway up the stairs to carrying shopping up them without noticing, and that is the whole win, ymmv
[edited]half a stone in 4 weeks sounds slow written down and felt enormous while it was happening
well done
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does anyone else keep one pair of old jeans purely as a measuring device
the compliments were harder than i expected and nobody warns you about that part
does the room want the numbers or just the story
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please say it. this channel exists for exactly this and nobody here is bored of hearing it, i could be wrong
genuine question i keep a pair of jeans from 2015 in the wardrobe as a measuring device and it is the only measurement i trust
i log kilos because i think in kilos and put pounds in brackets so nobody has to convert anything
blood pressure was 148 over 94 at baseline and 126 over 80 today, is that the weight or coincidence
i nearly quit too
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down 25 since 18 months ago, whats a sensible thing to celebrate at
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a1c 6.9 to 5.4 over ten months. not diabetic on paper anymore and i still do not quite believe it
how long did it take before you believed it was actually working
went up two flights of stairs without stopping and then had to sit down for a completely different reason
cpap pressure came down from 14 to 9 and the machine stopped waking me up in the night