going up faster doesn’t get you there faster, it just gets you sicker faster
Learned this one the expensive way. Went up because the scale stalled, not because I actually needed to, and all I bought myself was two rough weeks and no extra loss to show for it. Writing it up because I see the same impulse in this sub weekly: scale stalls, person assumes it's a dose problem, person goes up…
your plateau was four weeks old when you jumped. that's not a plateau, that's a Tuesday. this happens constantly.
yeah in hindsight four weeks of flat scale is nothing, I panicked
the scale is noisy day to day, water/sodium/hormones/everything. a 7-day rolling average is the only line worth reacting to and four weeks of that flat is a genuinely different signal than four weeks of raw numbers flat.
this. raw daily weight has like a 1-2kg noise band for a lot of people, a monthly "stall" can be entirely inside that band
going back and rolling-averaging my own data now, mildly annoyed at past me