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How do you measure your major milestone dates?

Just curious as to how people measure their major milestone dates.

In the beginning, most people seem to go by weeks, but as you go further out, do you continue to go by weeks (and therefore 4 weeks = 1 month), or do you go by the actual day anniversary?

So, using myself as an example, my surgery was Thursday, Feb 9, 2017. If we go by the standard 6 months (even though they range from 28 to 31 day each), my 6-month surgiversary will be August 9th. But, if I go week-by-week, as I have been doing since this started, 6 months will be July 27th, 2 weeks earlier. I'm probably overthinking this (!) but I consider Thursday my surgery day, not the 9th of any given month, since it usually doesn't fall on a Thursday. However, if I do that, then there will be 13 "months" in a year, not 12. Ugh. I need help.;)

How are you measuring your dates?

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    I go by weeks an months. I'm 15 weeks out right now. July 17th, which is a Monday, same day as my surgery, I'll be 17 weeks, and on July 20th I'll be 4 months.

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I use the date of the month for my monthly. Surgery May 15th, then the 15th of every month afterwards. For now I'm going by weeks..I'm 7 weeks this week. It's kind of like having a baby really...in the beginning, we say "he/she is this many weeks." Then at some point "he/she is this many months" lol. Like birthdays too, would you celebrate it two weeks early because technically you'd be such and such weeks/days old? No...just on the date of your birth. ?The only way I can describe it.

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Yeah, I guess I should stop counting weeks at this point and just go by full calendar months using the actual date (not day) as the marker.

So August 9th will be 6 months. My initial hope was to lose 100 pounds by then, but I'll be lucky (and happy) if I can hit 90 pounds lost. I just need to up my game over the next month. :447_mountain_bicyclist:

I go by weeks an months. I'm 15 weeks out right now. July 17th, which is a Monday, same day as my surgery, I'll be 17 weeks, and on July 20th I'll be 4 months.

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