photographs are more honest than the scale and much more annoying to take, took me by surprise
two years is not slow
Spun off from a message in #wins on 2026-03-11. 15 messages, 4 participants.
- two_three_lifts — two years is not slow. two years is what it takes and the people who say otherwise are selling something 09:36
people around you notice at different points and almost never when you expect, i am allowed to be pleased
tiny thing, but the non scale wins are the ones people remember a year later. the numbers blur
the bloods win is the one that will still matter in ten years and it is the one nobody claps for
measure something that is not weight. a tape measure, a ring, a chair, a flight of stairs. any of it, a tape measure told me before the scale did
what was the first item of clothing that told you something had changed, no rush
[edited]staying the same for a year is a win and this channel is one of the few places that will agree, the small ones count
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resting heart rate dropping is one of the quieter ones and it shows up on any watch, not a scale number, better
cpap pressure came down from 14 to 9 and the machine stopped waking me up in the night, i am allowed to be pleased
i dont think thats right, bought one thing that fit
nobody has to earn the right to be pleased about something in here, that is my win of the month
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, the bloods one will outlast it
chuffed for you, they get less frequent
well deserved