LOL: Weight Trending App!

AnnPT77

So, I'm a happy Libra user, for weight trend tracking. In maintenance, because I tend to eat very unevenly, I get a lot of meaningless fluctuations, so I changed the advanced settings to use longer time horizons for smoothing & forecasts (30d smoothing, 60d forecast, as compared with 7d default values for both, for the tech/stats geeks out there).

Just recently, I decided I should buckle down a bit, and be consistent with a tiny deficit, to start slowly dropping some Winter/holidays weight.

This made me chuckle (note the purple circle/arrow near the lower right):


So touched that the app thinks a 63 y/o li'l ol' lady's gonna live another 10,000+ years.

FWIW, if I switch back to the 7-day default, it predicts goal achievement at June 3, 2019 . . . maybe food for thought for anyone who thinks these apps are a technological crystal ball.

Just a more statistically sophisticated version of MFP's "In 5 weeks . . . " thingie, really.

kami3006

Maybe you’re just that awesome and the app knows it. 😜

JeromeBarry1

It's time to reconsider a big loan to purchase something, like, Asia.

Tacklewasher

So, when are you getting your consciousness transferred to an artificial body (and why wouldn't you pick one the weight you want to be)????

manderson27

Phirrgus

Ernestine Sheperd get outta here! AnnPT77 just showed you up.

LivingtheLeanDream

LOL yeah I got predicted I'd reach my goal (and I'm talking only 3lbs) in 2030, yours has pipped that

cmriverside

Yikes. See, those ups and downs would stress me out...they look so big - even though your total weight swing is nine pounds, that's pretty dramatic in just a couple months' time. I don't get those kind of swings at all.

AnnPT77

cmriverside wrote: »

Yikes. See, those ups and downs would stress me out...they look so big - even though your total weight swing is nine pounds, that's pretty dramatic in just a couple months' time. I don't get those kind of swings at all.

You probably eat like a responsible grown up. I don't always. I bank, and peak, as a habit. This is how it looks in wilder stretches.

My birthday, US Thanksgiving, Christmas & New Years are in there . . . some of those pretty evident in the spikes. The roughly 2-pound trend is real: Winter. The daily weight swings are mostly water weight/digestive contents nonsense, NBD, no stress.

There's a longer term quite gradual uptrend: That's more a worry, and what I'm trying to back down right now.