It says in 5 weeks you will weigh..

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  • Karen_DisneyFan
    Karen_DisneyFan Posts: 130 Member
    I never complete my day... so then I don't have to see that! All my diary info is still there, I'm just not seeing "Karen completed her day and was under (over) her calories, blah, blah, blah"
  • starskl
    starskl Posts: 10 Member
    Mine has been quite accurate, but I'm getting to the point now where things might slow down (I lost 3lb last week, that's not a weekly weight loss I can maintain) so we'll see. I try and average it out across the week and divide by the 5 weeks, it usually works out around 2lb -2.5lb a week, which is about right. My calories don't change much day by day though, so that might be a factor also. I don't tend to put my exercise calories in though, it just throws me.
  • susanp57
    susanp57 Posts: 409 Member
    When I clicked complete last night It had me below my goal in 5 weeks. Very encouraging, I must say.
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 34,580 Member
    CharlieBeansmomTracey wrote: »
    The projection thing means that if you ate the same amount,worked out the same amount and burned the same amount of calories you would lose that much weight in 5 weeks but you would have to do the same thing every day and be as accurate as possible to get there. if the thing was correct I would have been at my goal weight more than a year ago. but I dont eat the same every day or do the same workouts/activities so I know that because of that its not going to be exact.

    Yes to this.

    Moreover, your MFP goal is only an estimate. If you want better projection accuracy, you have to adjust based on your personal loss-rate experience, after 6 weeks or so.

    MFP's (and other calculators') estimates are averages, based on research studies of large groups of people. Most people are close to the averages (in statistical terms, standard deviation is relatively small). But a very few people could be up to several hundred calories per day different from the estimate, in either direction.

    Read this, if you're interested in the subject:

    https://examine.com/nutrition/does-metabolism-vary-between-two-people/
  • inertiastrength
    inertiastrength Posts: 2,343 Member
    I've never actually noticed if it was accurate (thinking no since I only pay attention to the figure when i have a decent deficit and not my over days hahaha)
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