Sat through a whole meeting with one knee over the other

2026-10-06 13:30

Halfway through a Tuesday meeting I realized I'd had my right knee stacked over my left for maybe twenty minutes, and nothing felt pinched. Awhile back that position lasted about a minute before my hip and the underside of my thigh started complaining, so I'd always shift and sprawl instead.

I'm down 31 pounds over roughly seven months, which isn't a headline number, and I'm trying not to over-read every small change. But I think a lot of it is just less mass to maneuver — the mechanics got easier before anything visible caught up.

In the trials they track weight, waist, blood pressure, that sort of thing; nobody logs "sat like a normal person through an entire agenda." Still, it's the kind of moment that quietly convinces me the change is holding and not just a good week. Anyone else notice a positional thing like this before the outside caught up?

2026-10-13 03:31

Ha, the knee-stack test is such a weirdly good non-scale win. Mine went from instant pinch to tolerable around month 5, but it tracked way more with adding unilateral lower work than the scale.

I lift 4x and started doing Bulgarian split squats, step-ups, and 90/90 hip switches twice a week; within a month, sitting cross-legged in a meeting stopped feeling like a hip flexor hostage situation. Are you training single-leg stuff right now, or mostly bilateral compounds?

Curious if your split has changed since the weight came off.

2026-10-14 04:33

Night shift here. Same thing kicked in around 25 lbs down. Used to get that dead-leg pinch in five minutes.

Now I can sit through handover with one knee stacked on the other. Weirdest win: tying my boots without holding my breath. I don’t track inches much, just a monthly waist tape and whether stairs feel different.

Does it hold up at the end of a 12, or only when you’re fresh? Mine’s way better after sleep, worse around 0400. Still counts as a real win.