MFP weight loss estimate

elm7f
elm7f Posts: 27 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
You know when you complete your diary and MFP. Tells you that in 5wks you'll weigh xxx. Has anyone found that to be accurate?

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  • nutmegoreo
    nutmegoreo Posts: 15,532 Member
    I haven't actually paid too much attention to it. Weight loss is not consistent, so I don't think you should expect those results. Plus each day will give a different number. I like to see it, because it is fun to picture that I will be there in 5 weeks, but I don't count on it. Just my thoughts. :smile:
  • jynxxxed
    jynxxxed Posts: 1,010 Member
    No.
  • goodbyefreshman15
    goodbyefreshman15 Posts: 71
    This is my second time on MFP. From experience, it hasn't been accurate..but that might just be me.
  • elm7f
    elm7f Posts: 27 Member
    Thanks
  • DamePiglet
    DamePiglet Posts: 3,730 Member
    Sometimes its close, sometimes not.

    Today it told me that I'd weigh 750,000 + lbs. in 5 weeks. Could be because I quick added so many calories at lunch.
  • SrJoben
    SrJoben Posts: 484 Member
    You know when you complete your diary and MFP. Tells you that in 5wks you'll weigh xxx. Has anyone found that to be accurate?

    No. It's a pretty daft feature. Because obviously not every day WILL be like that. So even if the statement is arguably true it's useless.

    Now maybe if they did a weekly summary and said "If every week was like this one you'd weigh xxx in 5 weeks..." then you'd have something. But every day based on a couple hundred calories this way or that is silly.
  • 10manda86
    10manda86 Posts: 229 Member
    Sometimes its close, sometimes not.

    Today it told me that I'd weigh 750,000 + lbs. in 5 weeks. Could be because I quick added so many calories at lunch.

    lol... lets hope for your sake it is inaccurate... that been said, how many of us could manage to do the same thing every day for 5 weeks??? I know I would go crazy and chew off my left arm just for fun!!
  • PinkNinjaLaura
    PinkNinjaLaura Posts: 3,202 Member
    Now maybe if they did a weekly summary and said "If every week was like this one you'd weigh xxx in 5 weeks..." then you'd have something. But every day based on a couple hundred calories this way or that is silly.

    That could actually be useful.
  • indignantgnome
    indignantgnome Posts: 60 Member
    I find that I lose more than it says I should. I probably also underestimated my activity level. Also, I don't see why it would be hard to make "every day like today" - because your calories, in theory, should be pretty similar consistently. O.o
  • Mr_Knight
    Mr_Knight Posts: 9,532 Member
    You know when you complete your diary and MFP. Tells you that in 5wks you'll weigh xxx. Has anyone found that to be accurate?

    Usually, yes.
  • PinkNinjaLaura
    PinkNinjaLaura Posts: 3,202 Member
    I find that I lose more than it says I should. I probably also underestimated my activity level. Also, I don't see why it would be hard to make "every day like today" - because your calories, in theory, should be pretty similar consistently. O.o

    Not really. I'm not doing the same activities every day, and if I were my body would become so efficient at it I would burn fewer and fewer calories doing it. I can easily have a 900 calorie difference in burn depending on whether I do my long run or it's my rest day. I strength train 3 times a week and never do the same workout twice. I run 3 times a week but at varying distances and speeds and sometimes there are hills and sometimes there are not. My deficit is not the same every day.
  • tigerblue
    tigerblue Posts: 1,526 Member
    In 4 years on here it has never been close.
  • DamePiglet
    DamePiglet Posts: 3,730 Member
    Sometimes its close, sometimes not.

    Today it told me that I'd weigh 750,000 + lbs. in 5 weeks. Could be because I quick added so many calories at lunch.

    lol... lets hope for your sake it is inaccurate... that been said, how many of us could manage to do the same thing every day for 5 weeks??? I know I would go crazy and chew off my left arm just for fun!!

    :laugh:
    I'm not too worried. It's a program. Garbage in = garbage out.

    I do agree that it would be better (more accurate) if it was taken on the average over a longer time period, but even then my silliness would mess up my average. Maybe I'd just weigh 60,000 lbs. instead. Still puts me at an increased likelihood for a stroke, I think. Heehee.
  • Isakizza
    Isakizza Posts: 754 Member
    My weight loss has never been consistent, even when my eating and workout are. As long as it keeps going in the right direction... it's all good! :happy:

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  • droxeene
    droxeene Posts: 43 Member
    Nope, but the number looks good doesn't it? :happy:
  • chelsea123453342
    chelsea123453342 Posts: 23
    never

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