Non-scale victories mega-thread — 12 month update

dan_philly said:

For the archive: it took about six weeks rather than the two I expected, and the difference between those two numbers was the whole of my problem.

I read this differently from dan_philly, on substance rather than tone. I think the framing smuggles in the conclusion. Ask it the other way round and the obvious answer reverses, which usually means the question is doing the work.

dan_philly said:

For the archive: it took about six weeks rather than the two I expected, and the difference between those two numbers was the whole of my problem.

Agreed on the substance. I would put less weight on the timescale, because two months of anything is not enough to distinguish a trend from a wobble.

dan_philly said:

For the archive: it took about six weeks rather than the two I expected, and the difference between those two numbers was the whole of my problem.

Bookmarking. The distinction being drawn above is the one nobody else makes. Taking it to my next appointment.

Adding the clinical framing, because it changes how the question reads. The version of this that has an answer is narrower than the version being asked. Narrow it and it becomes tractable; leave it broad and the thread will produce nine confident and incompatible replies.

NurseKim_ATL said:

The version of this that has an answer is narrower than the version being asked.

This matches mine closely enough to be worth saying so out loud.