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Accuracy of Five-Week Prediction

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  • Posts: 2,564 Member
    When you are at/under your goal it's kinda inspirational to stick with your plan.
    When you binged, it's a healthy slap in the face that you best not make it a habit.
  • Posts: 8 Member
    It "might" be accurate if you ate the exact same food and calories and do the exact same exercise everyday for 5 weeks. Pretty impossible.

    That would certainly make it closer, but after doing the same exercise every day for a while, your body would get more efficient and burn less calories doing that exercise.
  • Posts: 10,179 Member
    edited June 2017
    Oh no! Sucked into a necro thread!
  • Posts: 2,343 Member
    Some days mine is over and some days it's much more attractive to pay attention too. If your numbers are fairly consistent I'd say it's pretty accurate but I've never actually checked because my days are always so different
  • Posts: 2,343 Member
    Oh no! Sucked into a necro thread!

    Damn it me too
  • Posts: 20 Member
    It would be far better if the 5 week prediction was based on say. 7 day rolling average tha. In a single days intake. As it is currently pretty much useless if you follow any kind of fasting routine which includes very low or zero calories on different days
  • Posts: 34,617 Member
    ilyo777 wrote: »
    It would be far better if the 5 week prediction was based on say. 7 day rolling average tha. In a single days intake. As it is currently pretty much useless if you follow any kind of fasting routine which includes very low or zero calories on different days

    Like I said on the other thread, if you want that, get a weight trending app: Libra for Android, Happy Scale for Apple/iOS, Trendweight (requires a free Fitbit account but you don't need a device), Trendweight . . . there are probably others.

    Weigh daily under consistent conditions (first thing in AM, after bathroom before food/drink, same state of (un-)dress is good). Even the rolling trend is wrong, sometimes. It's still just statistics.
  • Posts: 166 Member
    It's not very accurate in my opinion. Sometimes I lose faster, sometimes not at all, and sometimes slower....but I'm not a machine so I don't eat the EXACT same calories every day.

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