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Thread · #wins · 2026-04-24

down 69 and the scale hasnt moved

Spun off from a message in #wins on 2026-04-24. 14 messages, 4 participants.

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  • two_ml_two — bloods win down 69 and the scale hasnt moved in a fortnight, do i still get to call it a win 23:12
TT

i was down 33 at month six and then nothing at all for eleven weeks. it moved again. the eleven weeks were not a failure

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TM

bloods win the bloods win is the one that will still matter in ten years and it is the one nobody claps for

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not a scale win i measure my waist as well because it kept moving through two separate stalls, that took 13 months

TM

marking the end of a stretch down 52 total and about half of that came in the first four months. it slowed after that and that was fine

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EA

i wrote down what i was hoping for on day one and i have just read it back after 23 months, writing it down was the point

EA

posting this here because 15 down in 7 months and honestly the stairs were the bit that got me, not the scale, a tape measure told me before the scale did

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TT

a bit pleased i wrote a number down in 2019 and passed it this spring. i had forgotten writing it

CC

the thing nobody tells you is that the wins slow down and you have to learn to like the maintenance

TM

a bit pleased cpap pressure came down from 14 to 9 and the machine stopped waking me up in the night, read it back on a bad week

EA

my knees stopped hurting around 35 down and i had assumed that was permanent damage, count the small ones

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EA

reading back my day one note the scale is a bad daily instrument and a fine monthly one, i am allowed to be pleased

TM

a1c moving before the scale does is common and it is the win people undersell, the numbers blur, this did not