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Keeping personal statistics

Oxog
Oxog Posts: 2
edited February 17 in Motivation and Support
Hi!

A quick question, have ever tried to track your personal stats to get motivated? How many chocolate bars you eat per day/week/month or similar activities? And if you have, what tool do use to collect and analyze your data? Any help would be greatly appreciated :smile:

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  • beertrollruss
    beertrollruss Posts: 276 Member
    I never thought of that and I'm an obsessive stat geek. The daily MFP reports can be downloaded into Excel. The Excel file could be uploaded into Access to create a personal database.
  • Jenny8511
    Jenny8511 Posts: 141 Member
    I have 2 excel spreadsheets that track my workouts on one, and my weight loss on the other. It's very motivating to see that my running miles have gotten faster. I love my weight loss spreadsheet because I have it set up to tell me when I should be reaching certain goals based on my average weight loss per week so far. I love my spreadsheets :)
  • palmerdanielle
    palmerdanielle Posts: 341 Member
    I have a journal where I keep track of stuff so similar idea I guess. I have sections for different things I keep track of, weight loss weekly monthly total, other improvements and goals like with working out but I don't keep track of that quite as much, an nsv section for non scale victories, a quotes section, short term and long term goals, rewards for specific milestones, and the rest of it's just a journal. I only do the weekly weigh in religiously, the rest I write in whenever I think of it. :)

    I think using spreadsheets and graphs would be a great data collection though if you're more visual and want to see your progress mapped out and look for trends.
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  • meeulk
    meeulk Posts: 246 Member
    following bc I love spreadsheets.
  • marathonmom72
    marathonmom72 Posts: 191 Member
    I track my weight on www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/HackDiet/ It shows changes over time with graphs, trend analysis, monthly logs, etc. and also gives an idea of daily caloric deficit or excess based on your weight over time. It's free.
  • demidz
    demidz Posts: 1
    i am geek and i track such things with some special app called iKeepStats. like km. i have ran, food, drinks when I am sober enough to track them :)
  • JourneyingJessica
    JourneyingJessica Posts: 261 Member
    Tictrac is a free website where you can link your MFP and other services (i link fitbit & mapmyfitness too). It's pretty awesome
  • Oxog
    Oxog Posts: 2
    Thanks guys! Installed iKeepStats on my phone - waaaaay easier to track activities and stuff, works for me really good.
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