need help understanding prompt

kidiki
kidiki Posts: 22 Member
edited October 2023 in Motivation and Support
Occasionally, I’ll get a prompt that states ”If every day were like today, in 5 weeks, you’ll weigh ___. I’m confused if this is supposed to be a positive reinforcement message or a warning? Can anyone help? It is just weird to me.

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  • loulee997
    loulee997 Posts: 273 Member
    edited October 2023
    It only does it on your days in a healthy range. One day I underate---just a busy day--and it gave me a warning. What you got is not a warning. When you get the five weeks--it means you are within the goals you set for yourself. If you continue following the same basic calorie range, this is how much you would lose in 5 weeks.

    You can also up your daily calories if you want.

    You can edit your calories goals for the day though. I upped mine to 1,600 calories a day instead of 1, 200 as 1,200 was too low for me.
  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 25,627 Member
    kidiki wrote: »
    Occasionally, I’ll get a prompt that states ”If every day were like today, in 5 weeks, you’ll weigh ___. I’m confused if this is supposed to be a positive reinforcement message or a warning? Can anyone help? It is just weird to me.

    It's a semi positive suggestion that if you did things exactly like you did that day every day for 5 weeks, you'd weigh whatever they suggest.

    When I was on a mission to lose weight in 2015, I was losing weight faster than they suggested.

    M in Oz
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 34,238 Member
    Assuming you're trying to lose weight: It could be positive if it says you'd lose weight. It could be cautionary, if you overate and it says you'd gain. It could be discouraging if it consistently says you'd lose, but in 5 weeks you don't lose as much as it says; or be worrying or encourage risky extreme behavior if you lose faster.

    If you're trying to gain weight - as some here are - it would be the reverse of all of that.

    If you're trying to maintain - like I (among others) am - it's just maybe guardrails?

    But mostly, it's just a statistical estimate, unlikely to be exactly accurate for any individual. And it's based on an impossible assumption, that every day will be like today.

    I completely ignore it - I don't even close my diary anymore, so I never see it. (Closing your diary is optional. It just gives you the message and puts an update on your timeline.) I think the message is nonsense.

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