Eight weeks, the scale agrees it's been boringly linear

Honestly, curious whether you've actually logged what the 8pm cutoff removed, versus assuming it's the timing.

When I did that, it was ~400 kcal of standing-in-the-kitchen grazing between 9 and 11pm that never made it into my old logs anyway — so the rule was mostly deleting an unlogged meal, not anything circadian. The mechanism gets oversold.

Also, in the trials the curve tends to bend somewhere around month 3-4, so a clean linear 8 weeks is great but I wouldn't read it as a permanent rate. Are you plotting weekly averages or just eyeballing the daily number?

Boring linear is the dream—congrats. The 8pm cutoff is the one I keep tripping on with two kids; there’s always a half-eaten granola bar at 7:55.

What finally helped was a physical “kitchen closed” cue: brush teeth after bedtime snack chaos, make a mug of tea, don’t go back in. My snack drawer is pre-portioned now—cheese sticks, grapes, popcorn bags—and the good chocolate lives on a high shelf I need a stool for. Lazy-proofing, basically.

Did your cutoff change your sleep or morning hunger?

Late picking used to wreck my mornings even when calories were similar.

Night shift here. 8pm cutoff is meaningless for me. My body clock is inverted. I anchor it to sleep instead: stop eating 3 hours before my main sleep, whatever the clock says. Same effect, less resentment.

Also weigh after main sleep, same conditions. Mid-shift weights after coffee and salty food are garbage data. Your linear drop might partly be consistent timing.

Are you comparing like-for-like mornings, or just whatever time you wake up?

Eight weeks of linear is a gift, honestly. I hit goal a while back and the 8pm thing is the one habit I kept, but I had to change what it meant.

Instead of white-knuckling the kitchen, I moved dinner 30 minutes later and made it the meal I actually looked forward to — big salad, protein, something warm. Then “closed” felt satisfied, not deprived.

The after-dinner walk helped more than any app. Curious: when 8pm hits now, are you actually hungry, or just transitioning out of the day?

That distinction changed maintenance for me.

The 8pm cutoff is a good example of one constraint deleting multiple failure modes. When I ran the same experiment, the log showed it didn't just remove ~300 calories of evening food — it also removed the wine that came with it and the dessert that followed the wine. One rule, three behaviors.

Worth testing whether it's timing or just total: slide it to 7pm for a week. If intake just migrates earlier and the rate holds, it was a volume effect wearing a schedule costume.

Also, 0.85 kg/week with no plateau at eight weeks is the part that would make me quietly re-check my logging, in a good way.

The 8pm resentment is real. Mine only stuck when I made it annoying to break: snack drawer moved to the garage fridge, stocked with string cheese, edamame pods, and tiny yogurts.

If I want something after the cutoff, I have to walk out there and half the time I just go to bed. Curious—did your weekends stay that linear? My weekdays are fine, but Saturday kid-sports grazing is where my line goes jagged.

I run a cafe, so the 8pm stop is the one I’d fail hardest at. What saved me was moving my real dinner earlier: I make my own plate at 5:30, put it in a takeout box with the time written on the lid, and eat it before the close-down rush.

Otherwise it’s cold frittata and broken cookie bits at 8:30 while I’m cashing out. The boring linear thing is weirdly motivating—when the scale is that predictable, I can’t pretend the nightly picks are “nothing.” Do you have a physical cutoff cue, like brushing your teeth or shutting the kitchen lights, or is it just willpower?

Curious whether you’re logging a 7-day moving average or just the daily number. Mine looked boringly linear too, but the daily scale bounced ±1.2 kg from sodium and late dinners.

Once I switched to trend weight, the 8pm cutoff showed up as a flatter morning number, not a faster weekly drop. I also started measuring waist at the navel every Sunday — it lagged the scale by about 3 weeks, then caught up all at once.

If you’re bored, add waist and a weekly average; it makes the linear phase less maddening. What’s your average weekly variance?

nice work. The thing I’d watch at 0.85 kg/week isn’t the scale, it’s your top sets.

When my rate got that linear, my squat and bench started feeling heavy before the mirror changed. I keep a note of bar weight/reps for one main lift each session; if those hold or climb, I don’t care what the daily number does.

If they slide two weeks straight, I’d suspect I’m under-recovering rather than “doing it right.” Are you tracking any strength markers, or just weight and waist? And how’s sleep holding up? That’s usually the first thing that slips when the pace stays this steady.