Show us your graphs!

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I am curious about what weight loss or maintenance looks like in graphs for other people.

Here is mine from the past month (in kgs):

mfowler883

I was sick of feeling fat and unhealthy, so I've been grinding hard since the end of August. I changed the way I eat, which has been a struggle because I love food - I don't have to be hungry to eat and I don't stop when I'm full; food is an addiction and it's harder to kick than anything I've ever done, but whatever. I've been using the treadmill and weight machine that I bought last year, and I use a very specific set of supplements. I've dropped over 30lb so far, and I feel better than I've felt in years. My clothes don't fit right anymore, but I'm not buying more until I get where I'm going....

Anyway, the graph:



I use a Renpho smart scale which syncs with MFP, and I weigh in every morning with the exception of when I'm away from home.

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mfowler883 wrote: »

I was sick of feeling fat and unhealthy, so I've been grinding hard since the end of August. I changed the way I eat, which has been a struggle because I love food - I don't have to be hungry to eat and I don't stop when I'm full; food is an addiction and it's harder to kick than anything I've ever done, but whatever. I've been using the treadmill and weight machine that I bought last year, and I use a very specific set of supplements. I've dropped over 30lb so far, and I feel better than I've felt in years. My clothes don't fit right anymore, but I'm not buying more until I get where I'm going....

Wow you have made great progress! It's interesting to see that clearly your trend is heading down but there are spikes along the way. Thanks for sharing your journey.

mfowler883

Yeah, there are regular wobbles. Take my son out for a birthday dinner, boom, gain five pounds overnight. Next morning, get back on track and don't let it get me down. Enjoyed a beer and decided to eat some salty crunchy snacks & drink two more, boom, gain, but same deal, don't let it derail the overall trend. As long as I'm moving in the right direction, I'm good - even slow progress is better than no progress, and I've been doing okay at limiting those wobbles. I know I can't eat or drink that way every day, not even close, but it's gotten easier over time and I no longer have the desire to. I think that's the key, and MFP has played a huge part in identifying the things that I need to either limit, find substitutions for or just eliminate altogether.

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Lietchi

I love my data and graphs 😆

First an overall view, this is my loss since the start (August 2019 till now) in kg:


Looks pretty smooth, but that's because of the long timeline.

I also use Libra, which gives a nice view of the individual weigh-ins and the overall trend.

These were at the start of my journey, when I had fluctuations but the trend was pretty consistently downwards:





This is later, when I was inching my way down slowly to goal, slowly enough that even Libra didn't think I was losing weight sometimes:



And this is maintenance, sort of 😆 : a hint of an upwards trend through the fluctuations, about .5kg/1lb over several months, I'm now trying to inch back down again.

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Lietchi wrote: »

I love my data and graphs 😆
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I also use Libra, which gives a nice view of the individual weigh-ins and the overall trend.
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I love your graphs! The bars showing when you are above the trend line are informative. It's interesting to see an example of what maintenance looks like. I have never heard of Libra before. I will download it and start logging to it. Thanks for sharing.

newHampshirite

First off, way to go @mfowler883 and @Lietchi. I really like the way you moved from weight loss to maintanence, @Lietchi. I am getting close to my goal weight, the transition and consistency your graph depicts is something to strive for; thanks for sharing. Here's what my first 180 days, with mostly once a week weigh-ins looks like:

AnnPT77

Here's a big chunk of my loss, in pounds, for 5'5" F, when I was age 59-60. (I lost too fast for my size in there for a while: Don't do that. It's a bad plan, not healthy.) In real life, I started at 183 in April 2015, but I can't show the whole thing without losing the individual daily weights (at the ends of the vertical lines). The heavier solid horizontal/down connected line is the calculated statistical trend.



Here is a long sweep of loss to maintenance, which does show the starting weight. I consider everything after that steep downhill to be maintenance, though it's obviously not a level horizontal line. I was overweight to obese for around 3 decades previous to that big loss, and the ups and downs in maintenance are all within a healthy weight range for me (lower 20s BMI), all in the same jeans size. I'm calling it maintenance even though I've drifted up (mostly unintentionally) then drifted down again (intentionally). Somewhere early on, I switched my goal from 120 to 125 - you can see that.



I'd show a chart showing the whole span from start up to today, but Libra has had several updates recently, and the new format loses the weight labels on the left side when I zoom out, which isn't helpful. I hope they'll fix it - fixes are coming out near daily since the big change. There've been more of those mild ups and downs within the healthy range, and I weighed 128 pounds this morning.

P.S. Libra is an Android app. For Apple/iOS, there's Happy Scale. Trendweight is another, for which you need a free Fitbit account (but you don't need a Fitbit device - at least last I knew). Weightgrapher on the web is another one I've seen people mention.

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Thanks for sharing @AnnPT77. It is interesting to see a few maintenance graphs. I think that is what I have done wrong previously. When I went into maintenance, I stopped weighing and tracking calories. I probably should have kept tracking my maintenance calories at least for a few months. But I think I will always have to monitor my weight. I am using Libra this time around and I think its graphs are more useful than just the MFP ones for loss as well as maintenance.

mfowler883

I might have to look into Libra - I've found the data in the Renpho app useful. Will Libra pull data from Renpho or MFP, do you know? Answers so far seem to be somewhat ambiguous...

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Lietchi

You can import from .CSV files, if that answers your question?

newHampshirite

This shows an average rate loss rate of .2088 lb/day or 1.46 lb per week. Am now shooting for 155 lb followed by maintenance at 155 lb.

mfowler883

Lietchi wrote: »

You can import from .CSV files, if that answers your question?

Indirectly, then. Renpho can export a .csv; meanwhile, Renpho has apparently been syncing with Google Fit although I don't use it, and Libra prompted to pull data from Fit so recent data is there. Pretty cool - I like the forecasting and the ability to manipulate the smoothing. Libra says I should be able to hit my goal by summer!

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tudorn96

This is my weight loss for this year following a reverse diet for the first 6 months, into a cut for 4 months and now back into another reverse diet for the last 1.5-2 months. Dropped 28kgs in total and haven't had much weight & fat gain since reverse dieting back up the 2nd time. Currently sitting at 2600 calories, weighing in at around 59kgs.

tigrig

Mine has been a roller coaster of a journey but I have also gained alot of muscle mass along the way. The graph should be trending back down over the next couple months as I'm starting a cut

DebbsSeattle

Don’t know if I have done this right or not. I’m a data freak. Love charts, graphs, analysis. I’m going to look into libra for sure!

smilinheart56

100_Rabbits

I'm 5'2, 36 years old, and down 99 pounds this year. I don't generally log gains, so most of the stagnation in November and December is me re-losing 10 pounds I gained after a depression spell led me to some stupid choices, but I mostly managed to maintain. But I'm pleased in general! Would have been nice to lose one more and end the year at 100, but I'm deeply not fussed lol. Goal for next year is another 80ish pounds off, and to start adding some muscle.

momzilla11

Just saw this after starting a similar discussion...great minds ):

Here's my 3-month

newHampshirite

Thanks to all for showing these graphs showing inspiring progress.

Kyattono

I'm just starting again in my (second) weight loss journey. Previously in 2015 I was 230, went down to 200, felt great but stopped short on my journey to my ideal weight of 140. Unfortunately, I stopped counting and weighing and some life changes to a much more active job and again a year later into a desk job had ruined me and I quickly shot up to 260.

I felt terrible but over the course of a few more years I went back down to 244 without focusing on weight loss. I've always told people that when you want to start a positive habit you need to start straight away and not "tomorrow" so this christmas day I started my journey!



I've lost a little more than 10 pounds and I'm really looking forward to getting down to 200 and continuing non-stop to my goal! I was a little spotty in the beginning with weight tracking, but I got myself a scale early this month that syncs with MFP daily and I'm also getting a fitbit as a late christmas present for more health tracking

MuffinTopMan74

I am not trying to lose weight but trying to lose weight and gain muscle at the same time. I started weightlifting about a month ago and increased my protein intake to about 140-162g per day. Also, I am using creatine to boost my ATP. My maintenance calories are 2545, but my diet is set at my BMR of 1884 calories per day. LOL, I gained weight but lost 3.5 in on my waist; now at 44.5in. I am using the bodybuilder diet for cutting. I was 228 lbs in June, but I didn't count that weight because I had heart issues and took diuretics, and dropped 15 lbs in two weeks from urine from water retention. I just put my weight on the day I start at the gym to be fair and more accurate.

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Thought I would bump this with my updated graph with my daily weigh-ins since 2021. The weight is in kilograms. I think it can be helpful to see that weightloss isn't always a straight slope down.

drv123

Here's me from January 6th 2022 to today, down 75 lbs. I've been on a bit of a slowdown this month but I'm happy overall with my progress.

EDIT: wanted to add a bit of context to the chart. Except this week I've weighed myself every morning, increases and decreases. Not sure I'd recommend that to anyone but it does make it interesting to go back and look at all the little blips upward and remind myself when my weight fluctuates that it's normal. The overall trend is all that matters.

RMUNTZ2

I struggled for 30 years till this year converting to a low carb lifestyle. I am now 7 pounds from my target weight in the normal zone for my height and weight.

Lil_K0

I have been weight lifting for 2 months and just started ADF this week. Finally, the scale is moving, not just the weight but the body fat is going down as well.

gzellner

smlarkey

10 months of dieting followed by 6 months of a diet break to reverse to maintenance. Just now starting a deficit again to lean out a bit more.