I'm glad MFP doesn't announce when I've gained!
DianaElena76
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I hit 210.0, my lowest number yet this go-round, a few days ago... but ever since then I've had a gain every day. Just this morning I'm at 212.6, and it really ticked me off. I skipped dinner last night, for crying out loud--you'd think I'd have at least stayed the same weight, but no, up 1.6 from yesterday. Ugh. I know this happens, but I thought I'd been pretty good all weekend, especially considering we had SIL's baby shower Saturday and Mother's Day yesterday. I had one higher carb day (52 total) but otherwise remained under my targets. I know, stop being silly. I'm just glad MFP doesn't post my gains like it does my losses.
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I AM RIGHT HERE WITH YOU ON THIS ONE BECAUSE I HAD A AWESOME MOTHER'S DAY DINNER AT MY HOUSE AND I WAS WAY OUT OF CONTROL BUT I HAD FUN... GUESS I HAVE TO PAY THE COST ON THE SCALE....LOL0
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I know what you mean, but I'm sure people can work it out from the number of times I've been up and down the same amount lost! Just persevere - today is a new day, a new week - you will get there! When I'm feeling down I read the success stories message board and look at all the people who have lost so much more and it can be really inspirational - I am not so genetically diverse that it is impossible for me I hope!0
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I've learned that the upticks on the scale are part of the process of losing. I was up five pounds one day (talk about messing with your head)! But yes, I'm glad they don't post them too! Hang in there!0
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Yeah, I'm up 1lb today, too. But thanks to you guys who have shared your ups & downs I am not (too) discouraged and will keep on going.0
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I actually wish the ticker would accurately portray where I am. I was down 12 but have gained 3 so I would rather it showed I am down 9.0
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Quit weighing yourself daily.... Or plan on seeing daily fluctuations... Weigh yourself at most weekly. Here is why.... You weigh yourself daily and after 5 days of no loss you are bummed and discouraged. 5 weeks on the other hand of no loss means it is time to make a change.0
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I'm up a pound right now, too, but I am certain it's extra fluid from the meal I ate out last night. Restaurant food is SO salty compared to what I make at home, even when I use salt. I'll weigh again Wed or Thurs, it should come back off. Hang in there!0
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I wanted to post the chart (but I could not figure out how) but I have tracked my fasting BG since I started April 11th, and the change is so dramatic! From consistently over 150 to now hovering near 115-118 for the past few mornings. Why can't we have a ticker for things like that?0
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geraldinemyoung17 wrote: »I actually wish the ticker would accurately portray where I am. I was down 12 but have gained 3 so I would rather it showed I am down 9.
On my home page it does show accurately my net loss, so a few days ago it said I was down 26 lbs but now it says 23.4 or whatever. I'm not sure if that's visible to other users or not, though, or if it's for my eyes only.0 -
Lrdoflamancha wrote: »Quit weighing yourself daily.... Or plan on seeing daily fluctuations... Weigh yourself at most weekly. Here is why.... You weigh yourself daily and after 5 days of no loss you are bummed and discouraged. 5 weeks on the other hand of no loss means it is time to make a change.
I actually don't really stress about it too much. I weigh daily because I know how much body weight fluctuates from day to day and within each day, so if I weigh weekly and I'm up I don't know if I just weighed myself on a higher day or if my weight is actually increasing--make sense? I'm looking for overall trends, and as long as I'm trending downward in the long run I'm pleased.0 -
geraldinemyoung17 wrote: »I wanted to post the chart (but I could not figure out how) but I have tracked my fasting BG since I started April 11th, and the change is so dramatic! From consistently over 150 to now hovering near 115-118 for the past few mornings. Why can't we have a ticker for things like that?
I track mine in the measurements section and it puts out a graph.0 -
I WISH MFP WOULD ANNOUNCE WHEN I'VE GAINED.
I'm so sick of getting "OMG well done" on my wall every time I lose the same 500g. It'll be all like "Shai lost .4kg" but say nothing about the 2.5kg I gained in the week before that. False praise *kitten* me. I'm okay with a public shaming if I put on weight :P0 -
I have to tell you I wish it did announce my flubs... Maybe just maybe I might not flub up so often...0
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I WISH MFP WOULD ANNOUNCE WHEN I'VE GAINED.
I'm so sick of getting "OMG well done" on my wall every time I lose the same 500g. It'll be all like "Shai lost .4kg" but say nothing about the 2.5kg I gained in the week before that. False praise *kitten* me. I'm okay with a public shaming if I put on weight :P
Yes this.
I have gained and lost the same weight for over a month now.
Everyone is all "WOHOO" and I'm all "nope".
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Please don't be bothered too much by it. Look at my day yesterday, I was ultra active ate well was 900 under my calories and good on carbs, also drank tons of water and I was up more that a lb this morning.
Your body is doing all sorts of things inside, just control what you can control and the weight will take care of itself.0 -
As far as I am aware, when you exercise and stress your muscles, they take up water as they are healing, so it's normal to see a small gain for the next day, right?0
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Yes, from what I've read, after exercise the tissues get microscopic tears resulting in soreness usually a day or two after and the body attempts to protect the damaged tissue, the tissue becomes inflamed and retains more fluid resulting in the increased number on the scale.0
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I WISH MFP WOULD ANNOUNCE WHEN I'VE GAINED.
I'm so sick of getting "OMG well done" on my wall every time I lose the same 500g. It'll be all like "Shai lost .4kg" but say nothing about the 2.5kg I gained in the week before that. False praise *kitten* me. I'm okay with a public shaming if I put on weight :P
Yes this.
I have gained and lost the same weight for over a month now.
Everyone is all "WOHOO" and I'm all "nope".
This! If MFP was to be believed I'm already at goal weight. Not! Still I think it reinforces a positive attitude: celebrate the good, ignore the bad. Works for me.0 -
I WISH MFP WOULD ANNOUNCE WHEN I'VE GAINED.
I'm so sick of getting "OMG well done" on my wall every time I lose the same 500g. It'll be all like "Shai lost .4kg" but say nothing about the 2.5kg I gained in the week before that. False praise *kitten* me. I'm okay with a public shaming if I put on weight :P
Exactly. That's why I quit entering my weights. I hate that public announcement of a false loss! Then I see others' losses and think they're real and get all happy for people---but I guess theirs may not be real either. Crazy system!
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I don't enter the scale upticks into mfp. I know it will be coming down again! So every loss posted, for me, is a true celebration! Maybe keep the increases someplace other than mfp? Only "check in" when the scale shows a decrease? Then no "false" celebrations?0
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I don't enter the scale upticks into mfp. I know it will be coming down again! So every loss posted, for me, is a true celebration! Maybe keep the increases someplace other than mfp? Only "check in" when the scale shows a decrease? Then no "false" celebrations?
That's a good idea.
And yeah, y'all, I want to agree with you on the "public shaming," but they are really just normal daily fluctuations--all the public shaming would do is force me to keep my weigh-ins private.
Question: Can you see my total pounds lost like I can see on my homepage?0 -
I WISH MFP WOULD ANNOUNCE WHEN I'VE GAINED.
I'm so sick of getting "OMG well done" on my wall every time I lose the same 500g. It'll be all like "Shai lost .4kg" but say nothing about the 2.5kg I gained in the week before that. False praise *kitten* me. I'm okay with a public shaming if I put on weight :P
I politely disagree. Even if you gained, didn't you still have to work to take those pounds back off? Many time when we are women, particularly with a metabolic disorder, we can't control those gains, but we still work it back off. I am trying to give myself some slack on this issue...I WISH MFP WOULD ANNOUNCE WHEN I'VE GAINED.
I'm so sick of getting "OMG well done" on my wall every time I lose the same 500g. It'll be all like "Shai lost .4kg" but say nothing about the 2.5kg I gained in the week before that. False praise *kitten* me. I'm okay with a public shaming if I put on weight :P
Yes this.
I have gained and lost the same weight for over a month now.
Everyone is all "WOHOO" and I'm all "nope".
It isn't nope. The old you would have let those pounds stay. And probably let them have a party and invite some friends who also wouldn't want to leave, right? So this new you fights back. They keep coming around, but you keep kicking them out. And one of these days, they'll get the message and stay gone, and you will have earned every single round of boxing with them!!!wheatlessgirl66 wrote: »I WISH MFP WOULD ANNOUNCE WHEN I'VE GAINED.
I'm so sick of getting "OMG well done" on my wall every time I lose the same 500g. It'll be all like "Shai lost .4kg" but say nothing about the 2.5kg I gained in the week before that. False praise *kitten* me. I'm okay with a public shaming if I put on weight :P
Exactly. That's why I quit entering my weights. I hate that public announcement of a false loss! Then I see others' losses and think they're real and get all happy for people---but I guess theirs may not be real either. Crazy system!
You can actually go to the page when it posts your loss and click the "X" to delete the message. I've done this before. I think you can actually go in and change the "auto-post" settings somewhere. Me, personally, I would rather have the data and delete the messages if I don't want to leave them there...I don't enter the scale upticks into mfp. I know it will be coming down again! So every loss posted, for me, is a true celebration! Maybe keep the increases someplace other than mfp? Only "check in" when the scale shows a decrease? Then no "false" celebrations?
That's a good idea.
And yeah, y'all, I want to agree with you on the "public shaming," but they are really just normal daily fluctuations--all the public shaming would do is force me to keep my weigh-ins private.
Question: Can you see my total pounds lost like I can see on my homepage?
I see 24 pounds lost on your profile page.
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I put my weight in every day so I can track the ups and downs. Today I was the same as yesterday. MFP posted on my wall "Shai74 has lost 0kg today!"
Go me.0 -
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I think kilograms round...and 1 kg is equal to 2.2 pounds, so the whole system is wonky anyway! LOL I'd rather it say I lost 0 whatever than not say anything because I gained! just sayin'0
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Today it says I "kuranda10 lost 1.1 lbs since her last weight in" (my Aria scale, FitBit and MFP are all linked)
But No. Yesterday I had gained one lb. so in reality I've only lost .1 lbs. I had to delete that status before anyone could "like" it0 -
There are few things I'd like to see:
1. Date or length of time since last weigh-in. "...has lost 10lbs since her last weigh-in!" is a lot better progress when "her last weigh-in" was two or three weeks ago than it does when it's been six months. (Just allows for more realistic expectations and responses, I think. I always found it weird to record some "sharp loss" like that and have people go nuts, but the "big drop" was actually over countless months.)
2. Some mechanism to account for the ups and downs of daily weighing. Perhaps something like only an announcement when you reach a new "record low" (and that "record low" can be deleted/reset for instances where you've gained back a significant amount and are effectively starting anew), or maybe a "record low" for the past X weigh-ins.
3. The option to announce gains. Not everyone's here for weight loss, and some of the ones who are have shown the desire to have it posted, too. There's no technological reason not to have an option available and have it off by default.0 -
Dragonwolf wrote: »There are few things I'd like to see:
1. Date or length of time since last weigh-in. "...has lost 10lbs since her last weigh-in!" is a lot better progress when "her last weigh-in" was two or three weeks ago than it does when it's been six months. (Just allows for more realistic expectations and responses, I think. I always found it weird to record some "sharp loss" like that and have people go nuts, but the "big drop" was actually over countless months.)
2. Some mechanism to account for the ups and downs of daily weighing. Perhaps something like only an announcement when you reach a new "record low" (and that "record low" can be deleted/reset for instances where you've gained back a significant amount and are effectively starting anew), or maybe a "record low" for the past X weigh-ins.
3. The option to announce gains. Not everyone's here for weight loss, and some of the ones who are have shown the desire to have it posted, too. There's no technological reason not to have an option available and have it off by default.
I agree. I've had all these same thoughts. Or maybe even just better control over what is posted. I log my weight each morning right after I've taken it (otherwise I forget what the scale said), but I don't have time right then to go in and delete the post if I don't want an announcement. By the time I get to it, several people have already "liked" it.0 -
Dragonwolf wrote: »There are few things I'd like to see:
1. Date or length of time since last weigh-in. "...has lost 10lbs since her last weigh-in!" is a lot better progress when "her last weigh-in" was two or three weeks ago than it does when it's been six months. (Just allows for more realistic expectations and responses, I think. I always found it weird to record some "sharp loss" like that and have people go nuts, but the "big drop" was actually over countless months.)
2. Some mechanism to account for the ups and downs of daily weighing. Perhaps something like only an announcement when you reach a new "record low" (and that "record low" can be deleted/reset for instances where you've gained back a significant amount and are effectively starting anew), or maybe a "record low" for the past X weigh-ins.
3. The option to announce gains. Not everyone's here for weight loss, and some of the ones who are have shown the desire to have it posted, too. There's no technological reason not to have an option available and have it off by default.
Especially when the code to TRACK all of these things already exists. In theory, it should be a relatively simple tweak to allow the "flip" setting of these items...unless the morons shortcutted the process and hard coded things.
1. Regardless, I LOVE the idea of including the last weigh-in date - you know it is tracked! How hard to add that piece of data to that code?
2. And allowing Record lows would be fabulous, particularly if the settings a user could adjust were "EVER," "in the last year," "In the last 6 months," "since XYZ date," etc. That would be AMAZING!
3. And this, so much. I know many folks on here are recovering from eating disorders and any number of things... Obviously weight gains are tracked because it cues the code not to post. The flip side of that code should be SO SIMPLE... And having an option to check losses, gains, or BOTH.... So much.
But, alas, we dream. And if they do add anything like this, it'll probably only go to premium where no one will ever get to use it. GRR....0 -
Yeah. It's making me consider resurrecting a side project that kind of fell by the wayside and re-imagining it as something like MFP, but...better...or whatever. That'd be a huge undertaking, though.0
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