Unmet goals
slb260
Posts: 52 Member
It's so discouraging when you log in and My Fitness Pal says "if every day was like today, in 5 weeks you would be "x" pounds, and yet you never lose. Very frustrating, and hard to keep going when that happens.
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The 5 week prediction at the end of every diary submission can be a little deceiving. When it says "if every day were like today", it means, "if every day were EXACTLY like today" - meaning you would have to eat that exact number of calories and burn exactly the right amount of calories through activity to actually make that 5 week prediction a reality. Even 10 calories in either direction will change the weight prediction.
Think of it more as a guideline rather than a goal.0 -
Agreed. Also, remember there is a big error factor in all the calorie estimates. Allow for that.0
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The 5 week prediction at the end of every diary submission can be a little deceiving. When it says "if every day were like today", it means, "if every day were EXACTLY like today" - meaning you would have to eat that exact number of calories and burn exactly the right amount of calories through activity to actually make that 5 week prediction a reality. Even 10 calories in either direction will change the weight prediction.
Think of it more as a guideline rather than a goal.
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Thanks. So true. I'll just keep plugging away.0
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Yeah, I kinda don't like that feature. My objective is to lose weight, of course, but I find that feature more discouraging than encouraging. I'm trying to be realistic and my goal is to lose at a slow but steady pace and make it stick. Maybe I'll find it more helpful many months from now when I'm getting closer to my ultimate goal.0
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Just don't close out your day and you don't have to see it! MFP will close it for you at midnight0
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That's funny! I think I will not close out my day anymore. Too discouraging.0
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I can never remember what it predicted that far in advance anyway!
Editted to say - somewhere in that sentence my tenses/timeline got seriously mixed up :happy:0 -
It does the opposite for me... it tells me if every day were like today, I'd weigh x amount (x > my current weight) after 5 weeks. I never do though.... it tells me I'll gain even weight when I'm successfully cutting.
It's just a calculator based on averages. It's not the oracle of Delphi.
I just ignore it. If you find it demotivating, then don't close your diary at the end of the day, or I think it may be possible to put in your settings so that when you close your diary you don't get the message, you can check that. But personally I don't bother closing my diary at the end of the day.0
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