I stopped counting months and started charting rolling 28-day slopes

2026-10-07 1523 views 2 posts

My 58-week check-in got delayed by a work trip, so I skipped the ceremonial post and rebuilt my trendline instead. Rolling 28-day trend: down 43.2 lb overall, but only 1.1 lb since week 46. The last quarter looks like maintenance with extra noise.

I have 309 days logged in my protein column, 164 lifting sessions, and 7 weeks where the scale moved under 0.4 lb. Mildly contrarian take: the year milestone is less useful to me than the slope of the last six weeks.

I'm not chasing a dramatic restart; I'm trying to decide whether year two should target waist-to-height, sleep, or strength. What metric did you use once the big round number stopped doing anything for you?

Rolling 28-day slope is genius—my weekly weigh-ins lie like a dorm mattress. 309 protein days is wild; I’m a budget student too and my column is 70% tuna packets, 20% Greek yogurt, 10% “that’s protein, right?” The 1.1 lb over 12 weeks with 164 lifts sounds like a recomp/water noise plateau, not failure.

Sharp question: do you log protein grams