Higher weight after completing diary for the day. Is this cause I havent weighed myself in 10 days?

Rebnurse1977
Rebnurse1977 Posts: 15 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
Every night when I complete my diary for the day, the "projected" 5 week weight GOES UP! 6 days ago it said I'd be 155.0 in 5 weeks, but its been going up a little bit every day and now it says 157.5 in 5 weeks. Is this because I haven't input a new weight in 10 days? (Still staying right at 1200 cals a day, been very accurate).

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  • Rebnurse1977
    Rebnurse1977 Posts: 15 Member
    Note: 5'4, 167.1 pounds (as of the 7th), agressive loss at 2lbs/wk.
  • RedSierra
    RedSierra Posts: 253 Member
    I don't pay much attention to that statement when I close my diary, except for fun. I don't know about the weight aspect.

    I lost 40 pounds using MFP last year and reached my goal without problem. I got all kinds of projected 5 week weight statements. Most people vary in what they eat and how they exercise, so the statements will differ -- plus our bodies are not machines and don't always follow predictions.
  • Rebnurse1977
    Rebnurse1977 Posts: 15 Member
    That would make sense... but I havent eaten more!
  • RedSierra
    RedSierra Posts: 253 Member
    edited August 2017
    It sounds like you're doing well. I would just ignore those projections.

    One of my MFP friends used to say the diary predictions were from Zoltar, the fortune telling machine. That was the machine that turned Tom Hanks into an adult in the movie "Big."

  • gamerbabe14
    gamerbabe14 Posts: 876 Member
    You're still losing weight. The projections are entirely based on what you input. So something has changed since your previous inputs. That's where your differences are. But again, the projections are pretty meaningless since nobody eats/exercises the same everyday.
  • Rebnurse1977
    Rebnurse1977 Posts: 15 Member
    Is the app calculating my exercise cals burned, even though I have it set to NOT let me eat back my exercise calories? Because if so, that would be it! I was doing 30 mins of elliptical my first 5 days or so, but now im between 20-23 mins per day (I teach nursing, and school started back up!)
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 34,163 Member
    Have your exercise calories changed? Do you eat them back?

    If you log them but don't eat them back, more exercise on a day will give you a lower 5-week projection.

    (Two pounds a week is risky, even though you didn't ask that. I just like to see everyone stay strong and healthy while losing weight! I got my loss rate a little too high for a while, unintentionally (long story), while losing, but felt fine . . . until I didn't. :( Took some time to recover from that.)
  • VeronicaA76
    VeronicaA76 Posts: 1,116 Member
    Ignore the projections. They are 6-week out guesses. Just keep doing what you're doing to lose fat safely.
  • kshama2001
    kshama2001 Posts: 28,052 Member
    Rebnurse1977 wrote: »
    Is the app calculating my exercise cals burned, even though I have it set to NOT let me eat back my exercise calories? Because if so, that would be it! I was doing 30 mins of elliptical my first 5 days or so, but now im between 20-23 mins per day (I teach nursing, and school started back up!)

    Please change your Diary Sharing settings to Public: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/account/diary_settings
  • nutmegoreo
    nutmegoreo Posts: 15,532 Member
    VeronicaA76 wrote: »
    Ignore the projections. They are 6-week out guesses. Just keep doing what you're doing to lose fat safely.

    5 week.

    OP, it's a guesstimate, and a crappy one at that. What is your weight actually doing? That's your better measure. I agree with those that say your goal of 2lb/week is too agressive though.
  • PAV8888
    PAV8888 Posts: 14,234 Member
    Sounds like you're set to 2lbs a week and not eating exercise calories back while not morbidly obese (thus not having sufficient fat available to support huge deficits).

    Generally speaking... a bad idea. Weight loss = good does not mean that even more aggressive weight loss = good.

    To your question: your exercise calories when not eaten create a bigger paper deficit and the expectation of a larger loss. When you don't have that extra deficit loss expectation become smaller.

    At a guess 1200 is a hard floor for you on MFP because your base calories as defined do not support a deficit of 1000 calories a day.

    Note that a deficit of 20% of your total calories is considered aggressive enough in most cases. It sure sounds like you're trying for twice that...
  • CyberTone
    CyberTone Posts: 7,337 Member
    Rebnurse1977 wrote: »
    Is the app calculating my exercise cals burned, even though I have it set to NOT let me eat back my exercise calories? Because if so, that would be it! I was doing 30 mins of elliptical my first 5 days or so, but now im between 20-23 mins per day (I teach nursing, and school started back up!)

    I would guess MFP software developers did not bother to take into account the Premium setting when calculating the 5-week projection. Although the setting turns off adding logged exercise Calories to your Daily goal, they probably are counting the Calories in the five week projection. My guess is poor programming skills at work here, and MFP software developers overlooked this part of the application. Interesting.

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