MFP says I'll be 500 lbs in 5 weeks...help?

cdt912

I've started the keto diet, low carb, high fat. I've been losing about 2 lbs per week with light exercise and diet. However, I completed my diary entry from yesterday and the prediction it gave me was that I would be 501 lbs in 5 weeks!! I know that it's a simple calculation based off of the data entered, but is it implying that I'll gain weight or could that be some sort of technical fluke? I just want to be sure when I weigh next week, I haven't packed on 100 lbs. :-P

servilia

My sarcasm meter is pretty good but I'm not sure on this one. Lol
In case you're serious, the answer is this: if you eat the same way every day for the next five weeks that you did yesterday, it's possible you'll be 500lbs in five weeks.

galipemi1

It calculates that from day to day based on your intake. Your diary is closed so I can't see what you ate, but I'm guessing you were over the MFP recommended calories for the day - and by quite a bit. It's basically saying that if you kept eating at that level, you'd be going up in weight (although, we all know 500lbs in 5 weeks is pretty much physically impossible!).

TheFairyJester

I've started the keto diet, low carb, high fat. I've been losing about 2 lbs per week with light exercise and diet. However, I completed my diary entry from yesterday and the prediction it gave me was that I would be 501 lbs in 5 weeks!! I know that it's a simple calculation based off of the data entered, but is it implying that I'll gain weight or could that be some sort of technical fluke? I just want to be sure when I weigh next week, I haven't packed on 100 lbs. :-P

ignore it , it is based on simple calculations and is rarely correct anyway.


I pay it no mind what so ever

TheFairyJester

I've started the keto diet, low carb, high fat. I've been losing about 2 lbs per week with light exercise and diet. However, I completed my diary entry from yesterday and the prediction it gave me was that I would be 501 lbs in 5 weeks!! I know that it's a simple calculation based off of the data entered, but is it implying that I'll gain weight or could that be some sort of technical fluke? I just want to be sure when I weigh next week, I haven't packed on 100 lbs. :-P

ignore it , it is based on simple calculations and is rarely correct anyway.
it also does not take into account other dietary lifestyles.

I pay it no mind what so ever

nancymarielynn

500 pounds How much are you now
yesterday I did some thing wrong and it said I would gain 79 pounds.
finally playing around with it it said I would loose some maybe like 20 ponds in 5 weeks I forget the corect number it said.I need to loose

cdt912

Well, I feel pretty dumb. I had entered my weight yesterday with a number transposed, so it thought I was already over 500lbs. Ugh. Sorry for asking the dumb question, but I've now fixed my weight log and feel like I'm in the right track again. :-) I'm 228, but had entered 528. Doh!

cdt912

Lol... I'm definitely not eating that much and I'm under 250 lbs. I do enjoy sarcasm though. :-)

GiGiBeans

Losing 300 lbs in one day is not safe! Please be careful!:laugh:

cdt912

Losing 300 lbs in one day is not safe! Please be careful!:laugh:

Lol! Whatever was I thinking!? With 300 lbs in a day, I think I can afford having a donut in celebration! ;-)

SLLRunner

Well, I feel pretty dumb. I had entered my weight yesterday with a number transposed, so it thought I was already over 500lbs. Ugh. Sorry for asking the dumb question, but I've now fixed my weight log and feel like I'm in the right track again. :-) I'm 228, but had entered 528. Doh!

That's funny, but I'm sure it wasn't funny at the time you saw the "in 5 weeks you will weigh 500 pounds." :bigsmile:

However, along this same line, I once entered the wrong serving size and ended up with -2,000 calories for the day when I'd already eaten a fair share of my calories already! Fixed that one right away.

Also, MFP has some silly glitches once in awhile.

servilia

Well, I feel pretty dumb. I had entered my weight yesterday with a number transposed, so it thought I was already over 500lbs. Ugh. Sorry for asking the dumb question, but I've now fixed my weight log and feel like I'm in the right track again. :-) I'm 228, but had entered 528. Doh!

That explains it! Lol that's cute.

TheFairyJester

Well, I feel pretty dumb. I had entered my weight yesterday with a number transposed, so it thought I was already over 500lbs. Ugh. Sorry for asking the dumb question, but I've now fixed my weight log and feel like I'm in the right track again. :-) I'm 228, but had entered 528. Doh!

LOL omg i did that last week, I went to put in 242. check to see how much more it was, and it didn not say the has lost thing, and my total loss was back to 0 . i am like wtf. what is wrong with this site. then i notice i put that weight in in as 424.

quiltlovinlisa

I've done the wrong serving size before, had it calculate that I ate about 23,000 calories in one day.

lol

It's like, WAIT! What? Oh MAN!!! *head slap* lol

TheFairyJester

I've done the wrong serving size before, had it calculate that I ate about 23,000 calories in one day.

lol

It's like, WAIT! What? Oh MAN!!! *head slap* lol

yeah for breakfast this very morning i put in 20 eggs instead of 2.

sloth3toes

Losing 300 lbs in one day is not safe! Please be careful!:laugh:

Lol! Whatever was I thinking!? With 300 lbs in a day, I think I can afford having a donut in celebration! ;-)

Tomorrow, you'll weigh less than 0.

I had a really bad day once, calorie-wise.... so instead of 2 servings, i entered 2,000 servings, for a total of millions of calories. MFP predicted I'd be several thousand lbs in 5 weeks. I just left it, as a reminder, not to screw up again. It recalculates the next day, on the latest entry, anyhow.

haymancm

Happy (thrilled!!) it wasn't what you thought!!!

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