Question about estimated weight loss

Hericksen

I'm confused. Last night as I finished my food diary for the day, I was given an estimate for how much I "should" weigh in 5 weeks if every day was like yesterday. Just now I finished my food diary for today and the estimate is 1 lb higher than yesterday. I'm just wondering why that would be if I didn't go over my calories and ate healthy today? Obviously it's just an estimate and not what it's really going to be, I'm just wondering how those estimate things work, and if I'm doing something different from yesterday that would change it.
I did exercise for 20 minutes yesterday and didn't exercise today but both days I ate healthy and didn't go over my calories.

shovav91

Basically, it's just saying that if you had the exact same net calories every day for the next 5 weeks, you would weigh approximately that much. It's not accurate, I'm not sure why they chose to include it.

╰☆╮PilatesPOPster╰☆╮

Basically, it's just saying that if you had the exact same net calories every day for the next 5 weeks, you would weigh approximately that much. It's not accurate, I'm not sure why they chose to include it.

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Hericksen

That is weird! Yesterday I had 133 remaining calories and today 49. So maybe it's because I ate a little more of my calories today?
I guess I'll just totally ignore the thing from now on. I leave a little more calories on the days when I exercise incase the exercise calories from here are not entirely accurate, I eat closer to my alloted calories on the days when I don't exercise.

Pebble321

It's not that it's inaccurate - more that most of us don't eat exactly the same very day.
The reason you got two different numbers is because your net calories weren't the same. If you eat less calories then you have a bigger defecit so when it does the maths, it estimates a bigger loss in 5 weeks.
I've found it pretty accurate if I eat close to my net calorie goal, if you don't do this, then ignore it!

havalinaaa

That is weird! Yesterday I had 133 remaining calories and today 49. So maybe it's because I ate a little more of my calories today?
I guess I'll just totally ignore the thing from now on. I leave a little more calories on the days when I exercise incase the exercise calories from here are not entirely accurate, I eat closer to my alloted calories on the days when I don't exercise.

If you ate at a 633 calorie deficit (assuming your regular deficit is 500) for 5 weeks, you would be in a 22155 calorie defict in total, opposed to a 19215 calorie deficit if you ate 549 calorie deficit for 5 weeks. The resulting caloric difference is 2940, roughly a pound (a pound is aprxm 3500 calories). Of course that would be really hard to do without eating exactly the same things and maintaining the same level of activity - basically not realistic. The estimate just gives you a projection. I use it as a judge of whether my day was a good day or not - is the weight loss it projects on track with what I am working toward? Is it way over/under?