Is there a way to record a weight with a past date?

wendyhershey4
wendyhershey4 Posts: 10 Member
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I just started with MFP after about 6 days dieting and using LoseIt for 2 days (I've used LI in the past and I had a lot of history and foods which is handy, but I may have to jump ship for what seems to be a better food database with MFP.)

I would like to record my starting weight on this journey (1/9/16), but it looks like MFP can only record weight for "today". I want credit for my first 5 lb loss (which I've almost hit, yea!). I can probably fake it for the first week to catch up to reality, but it would be nice to be accurate. When I started MFP yesterday, I entered my peak weight of 7 days ago, just in case.

DId I miss something?

I am in the throws of using both apps to see which one works the best. That's not fun. I need to pick one fast!

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  • GsKiki
    GsKiki Posts: 392 Member
    Unfortunatelly you can't log for the past. I did the exactly same mistake in the begining, but don't let that bother you.
    You know how much you've lost ;)
  • wendyhershey4
    wendyhershey4 Posts: 10 Member
    Found it!!! It's not on the phone app, but I was just poking around on the website and there was a scale with a "+" icon under my name on MyHome.

    Lot's of editing capabilities there.

    I was thinking about it, and I can see where the weight loss projections could get a little askew with weight-starting date not matching calorie-starting date, but I'm not going to worry about that. I would rather track the reality accurately. Good chance that MFP can figure out the correct projections.
  • neohdiver
    neohdiver Posts: 738 Member
    GsKiki wrote: »
    Unfortunatelly you can't log for the past. I did the exactly same mistake in the begining, but don't let that bother you.
    You know how much you've lost ;)

    You can log for any date you want. On the check-in page scroll down & click edit previous entries. On the screen that pops up, the bottom item is to add a new entry. You can add whatever date you want from there.
  • Josh_lol
    Josh_lol Posts: 317 Member
    I think it only works on the computer. Go on your check-in page and there should be something that says 'edit previous entries'. Here, you can change the dates of your weight logs to whenever you want.
  • GsKiki
    GsKiki Posts: 392 Member
    neohdiver wrote: »
    GsKiki wrote: »
    Unfortunatelly you can't log for the past. I did the exactly same mistake in the begining, but don't let that bother you.
    You know how much you've lost ;)

    You can log for any date you want. On the check-in page scroll down & click edit previous entries. On the screen that pops up, the bottom item is to add a new entry. You can add whatever date you want from there.

    Oh will try that! Thank you :)
  • wendyhershey4
    wendyhershey4 Posts: 10 Member
    Wow, its been 7 years and I'm having the same problem!! Didn't even realize I've been using this app for so long - LOL!

    On the app, I keep selecting Mar 10 and it refuses to put it in. It kicks back to Mar 9. So I went to desktop and now cannot find "edit previous entries". DId they get rid of it?

    I put an error number for Mar 10 and it is throwing off the graph. Looks like I hit a big LOW for one day but I did not.
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 34,262 Member
    wendyhershey4 wrote: »
    Wow, its been 7 years and I'm having the same problem!! Didn't even realize I've been using this app for so long - LOL!

    On the app, I keep selecting Mar 10 and it refuses to put it in. It kicks back to Mar 9. So I went to desktop and now cannot find "edit previous entries". DId they get rid of it?

    I put an error number for Mar 10 and it is throwing off the graph. Looks like I hit a big LOW for one day but I did not.

    I don't believe MFP uses your weight loss rate (as embodied in your series of logged weights) to change your goals or projections. (It does use your current weight if you log exercise via the cardiovascular exercise database to estimate exercise calories.)

    Personally, I keep my daily weigh-ins in my weight trend app** and only update MFP when I have a concrete reason to. (NB, I'm in maintenance now so it doesn't change massively.)

    ** That'd be Libra for Android in my case, but there's also Happy Scale for Apple/iOS, Trendweight with a free Fitbit account (don't need a device, AFAIK), Weightgrapher, and probably others. They have more features than the MFP weight tracking offers, and a person can still update their MFP weight when there's a material change.

    It's just an option to consider.

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