You will weigh _____ in 5 weeks...

T1DCarnivoreRunner

I've been using MFP for more than 2 year as well and it is totally wrong. I really wish it were true because I would have reached my goal weight more than a year ago if it were right.

Smccabe8

I've found Happy Scale app to be more accurate, since it actually looks at your weight loss rates and trends. Happy Scale has been pretty spot on about when I'm going to hit certain goals.

fvtfan

benzieboxx wrote: »

I really dislike it. It just reminds me of my mom and her judgmental ways. I really wish there was a way to disable it.

If you don't "complete" your day you won't see it - I stopped doing that a while ago because that feature bugged me.

Microscopes

I'm confused.

Everyone talks about CICO.

Doesn't that feature simply take your calorie deficit and calculate your CICO to see what you'll lose?

If you're weighing food perfectly, how can it get it wrong?

cwolfman13

jodidari wrote: »

Have you found this to be reliable with some sort of consistency or have you found yourself close to the predicted weight around the 5 week mark? Or do you not pay this any attention?

It is a ridiculously oversimplified equation that assumes the math is exact rather than a guideline and that every day is in fact, exactly like today...meaning your CI and CO would have to be exactly the same every single day which is just a ludicrous notion in and of itself.

It's actually about the most worthless thing on this entire app.

T1DCarnivoreRunner

Microscopes wrote: »

I'm confused.

Everyone talks about CICO.

Doesn't that feature simply take your calorie deficit and calculate your CICO to see what you'll lose?

If you're weighing food perfectly, how can it get it wrong?

Because it is more complicated than CICO. Because your BMR and exercise burns are more complicated. Because food calories are not perfectly measured even when weighing. Because of a lot of things.

caurinus

It's making a lot of assumptions about how active you are during the day.

You're much better off measuring your weight regularly, graphing it, and drawing a trendline that extends into the future. That will give you a prediction based on actual past performance, and has a shot at being accurate assuming you don't change what's working for you now.

This web site does most of that for you: https://trendweight.com/

jodidari

benzieboxx wrote: »

I really dislike it. It just reminds me of my mom and her judgmental ways. I really wish there was a way to disable it.

I want to disable it or it could atleast tell me based on my last week of logging rather than day

RoxieDawn wrote: »

Been here going on two years, this thing on the diary is BS (I am just being very blunt about it..sorry).. And I too wish it would just go away.

edited to add: OP, it is NOT reliable or consistent. One day I will try to eat the same exact thing for 5 weeks and burn the exact same calories for 5 weeks... Anyone tried it?

Once i tried to eat not the exact thing but I tried to rotate within a reasonable amount. So if i was to eat 1350 calories everyday I tried never to go over 1500 or below 1200. My daily amount varied but my weekly amounts were the same. I lost three pounds in that 5 week period rather than the 12 it predicted the first day. Someone pointed out if you log the exact meal two days in a row but change the amount of water you consume it will give you a different estimate so....accuracy is questionable

DoreenaV1975

benzieboxx wrote: »

I really dislike it. It just reminds me of my mom and her judgmental ways. I really wish there was a way to disable it.

You can just not click on "Complete Diary" and it will not pop-up. The only reason for "completing your diary" is for it to pop-up on your News Feed. I don't let anything cross over to my News Feed except the amount of days I have logged in, so for me, not clicking the "Complete Diary" button is no biggie...