/r/loseit Culture: Why We Post our Stats in /r/loseit, and How You Can Help

So my stats are

M55 5'11 SW:298 CW:183 GW:183 IT Field Tech, Walking/Lifter

One line that says a lot. You can figure out my starting BMI, you can figure out my TDEE, you can imagine my before and after. You can give me advice about preparing for my GW lifestyle. You can estimate my SW lifestyle.

And if you have my SW or GW, you can lean on me as a fellow traveller. Weight loss is a lonely business, and we're all doing our own lonesome journey but we're not alone. We all know a place where we can find people who are doing the same kinds of things: /r/loseit. The stats make that happen.

Reddit is undergoing a change right now. It was a website, with a few mobile users. Now it's becoming a mobile site, with some legacy website users. What's not changing is the focus on quality: the best submissions and comments will generally be the top ones. In the middle of that change is something called 'flair.' Flairs will be part of the redesign and there is mobile support for them.

Right now, my flair says "Maintaining 3½y ♂55 5'10½" 298→183℔ MFP+🚶🏋+TOPS" and maybe you see some or all of that on your mobile app or on the website. The place to set that is on the website, in /r/loseit, on the right panel: (see image) and if the redesign covers that up, try https://old.reddit.com/r/loseit and look at the right panel.

You can also just write it somewhere in your message. It doesn't even need to be relevant to your post, as half the point of it is to identify yourself with your journey for the purpose of the readers (most of which are lurkers).

Please post your stats and a general description of your daily activity...

Your stats should include your age, sex, height, starting weight, current weight, and goal weight, and a few words about the physical activity of your typical day.

Posting your stats helps others help you, if you need help. But it also helps readers get an idea about you or your effort, and become inspired by you when we're giving advice, celebrating a victory, or just checking in.

Aside from being helpful, it's a tradition. It's not required, but it is a custom and has been for years.

Examples:

• 25M 5'9" SW:225 CW:200 GW:160 Desk Job with jogging habit
• F/33 5'4" SW:14 stone (196 lbs), CW:14 stone (196), GW:not-sure at-home mom chasing the children
• 34F 168cm SW:73kg CW:68kg GW:whatever looks good -- full time busy retail clerk

So post your stats. Put them in your flair. Keep them updated. Celebrate changing your flair!! (It's both an SV and an NSV, worthy of the daily thread) and be sure to mention how you're achieving your victories!

The thing with a custom/tradition is it's self-reinforcing. If more people share their stats, more newbies will do it, too. Don't let this important and useful custom die: share your stats. Share them often. You posting your stats helps in many ways.

^{♂55 5'11/179㎝ SW:298℔/135㎏ CW:183℔/83㎏ [3Y AMA], [1Y recap] ⚖MFP+🚶🏋+TOPS}

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