Tried small tee joke fit

2026-10-02 4926 views 12 posts

late-night gamer here. for years my 2am raid snack was a giant soda and whatever chips were closest.

since mid-january i've been swapping the soda for fizzy water with lime, and during queue times i just walk around my apartment instead of scrolling. nothing wild. 11 weeks in, down 18 lbs. my hoodie went from XL to M, and yesterday i tried on a small tee at the mall mostly as a joke. it actually fit.

not snug enough to be a compression shirt, just... fit. i stood in the dressing room like an idiot grinning.

still eat chips sometimes, still game till 3, but the soda swap is the one thing i've kept consistent. anyone else have a tiny habit change that somehow did more than a whole complicated plan?

Small tee fit is the real endgame drop, congrats. Genuine question: did it fit in the shoulders or just the torso? I’m asking because my XL hoodie hides everything and I don’t trust mirrors after 10pm.

My version of your walk is pacing the dorm hallway during queue — I look like I’m waiting for a microwave. Cheap protein thing that’s been working: canned tuna + hot sauce + those little mayo packets from the dining hall, eaten with cucumber slices instead of chips. Weirdly hits the 2am salty craving.

Also, fizzy water with lime is elite; I’ve been adding a splash of pickle juice when I want something aggressive. Keep the small tee. Frame it.

What a great shift, especially the queue-time walks. One thing that helped me with late-night gaming was setting a "kitchen closed" alarm 90 minutes before I planned to log off, then making a mug of herbal tea and logging just three things in my notes app: bedtime, steps after 10 p.m., and whether I ate after midnight.

I only look at the weekly averages, not daily swings, because one rough night used to derail me. Do you find the fizzy water with lime still feels like a treat during long raids, or have you rotated in other flavors? Congratulations on the small tee.

This is such a steady set of changes, and the small tee fitting must have felt like a quiet victory. I also weigh daily but only judge by the weekly average; it kept me from overreacting to water-weight swings.

One concrete thing that helped me during long gaming sessions was pre-pouring the fizzy water into a marked bottle and keeping cut veggies or grapes within reach, so the snack was already decided. Do you find the walking during queue times easier with a step goal, or do you just move until the match starts?

Either way, 18 pounds in 11 weeks is a lovely trend.

Fellow late-night gamer here. The tracker that helped me wasn’t calories—it was a note on my phone: time, game, and “hungry or bored?” Turned out my 2am raids were mostly adrenaline crash, not real hunger.

I started keeping frozen grapes and a cold fizzy water on the desk, and if I still wanted chips after 10 min I’d have some, but usually the urge passed. Do you notice it’s worse after a loss or on certain games?

Also, the small tee fitting is such a weirdly huge NSV. I’ve lost and regained before, so I’m trying to bank these little wins this time.

For what it's worth, the chip replacement is the part I’m nosy about. Did you find a crunchy swap, or did the fizzy water just break the 2am ritual?

I’m an empty-nester trying to make evenings feel less like a pantry scavenger hunt. My current win: Sunday prep of cucumber spears with lime and chili salt, so when 10pm hits I grab that instead of staring into the cupboard.

Tracking-wise, I only mark days I hit my water and veg goals—not every bite—because over-logging makes me weird. Do you have a “done” signal after a good week?

Congrats! I’m brand-new, week one, so this is really encouraging. Your queue-time walk is the part I’m curious about — do you set a timer, or just do laps between matches?

I’m a late-night console person too, and my danger zone is after everyone logs off around 1am. I’ve been pre-portioning frozen grapes and leaving them in the freezer, which helps a little, but I still wander to the pantry during load screens.

Also, did the small tee fit okay in the shoulders, or was that the weird part? Sorry, probably a silly question.

Fellow 2am-er here. What finally stuck for me was separating "snacking because raiding" from "snacking because hungry." I keep a glass of water on the desk and literally nothing edible in the room — if I want something I have to walk to the kitchen, and half the time the queue pops before I'm back.

Your 18 lbs in 11 weeks is no joke. Curious though: how's your sleep been?

That was the last thing to catch up for me, and there was a thread here last spring about late-night eating that nailed why.

Daily weigher here, and 18 in 11 weeks is the kind of trend line that makes single-morning bumps look like pure noise. The small tee is a better data point than any random low.

One thing I’m curious about: did you find a crunch replacement for the chips, or did the fizzy water ritual mostly cover the habit? I ended up doing cucumber rounds with lime salt during queues because carbonation handled the soda but not the crunch.

Also, insulated cup + crushed ice made it feel less like a substitute and more like a real drink. Keep zooming out—you’re winning the boring averages.

Late-night raider here too. The thing that finally helped me wasn’t willpower, it was making the 2am choice boring: I pre-fill my fizzy water and set out a measured bowl of frozen grapes or popcorn before I log on, then the kitchen is “closed” after that.

The hoodie XL to M is such a tangible win—way more real than the scale some mornings. Sharp question: what’s the first non-scale thing you noticed?

For me it was waking up less puffy and actually wanting breakfast. And are you going to wear the small tee now or save it as a checkpoint?

Fellow plateau prisoner here — six weeks flat at the same number and it's making me slightly unhinged. Weirdly, what helped wasn't a clever trick, it was eating a real dinner before raid instead of banking calories all day.

My 2am "snackiness" turned out to be actual hunger with a side of boredom. Scale's still stubborn, but the belt went in a notch and I'm counting it.

Genuine question though: how do you keep the queue-time walk going when the raid runs long? I always bail around the 40-minute mark and go back to pacing in the kitchen, which is exactly where I shouldn't be.

For what it's worth, curious whether the chips stayed in the rotation — I’d log them separately from the soda swap. When I did that for my own 2am snacks, the liquid calories were only ~180/night but the chip bag swung 300–500 depending on how much was left.

My 7-day weight trend lagged the calorie column by about a week, so 18 lbs in 11 weeks looks more like a real calorie gap than a fizzy-water miracle. Did your queue-walk steps go up enough to track as its own line, or is the snack swap doing most of it?