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    Is there a way to log your original starting weight?

    Posts: 9,603 Member
    edited February 25 in Getting Started
    I lost weight before I started logging things here. So the weight it says I've lost isn't accurate - I've lost a lot more.

    Is there a way for me to log the actual starting weight so that my number is accurate? It's not important and doesn't really matter, but I'd like to see it, all the same.

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    • Posts: 30,886 Member
      Go into check-in, where you enter your weight, and at the bottom you can choose "edit prior entries." If you choose that and scroll down to the bottom you can add an additional weight for any date you choose. Do that and add your starting weight and date.
    • Posts: 1,959 Member
      I don't know either, but if anyone figures it out let me know. I started losing weight before I found MFP too. So my ticker is off as well, I've really lost 87, not 74lbs.
    • Posts: 1,959 Member
      Go into check-in, where you enter your weight, and at the bottom you can choose "edit prior entries." If you choose that and scroll down to the bottom you can add an additional weight for any date you choose. Do that and add your starting weight and date.

      awesome!
    • Posts: 1,229 Member
      On the website (not the app)

      You can go to My Home -> Check In(in nav menu) -> Edit Previous Entries (little blue link down the page a bit) and there will be a spot to change your starting weight.
    • Posts: 38 Member
      I changed mine. I originally started in November, but didn't know about my fitness pall until later, when I look at my chart it shows a loss of about 35 lbs in the first week, but at least I've been able to get my original start weight.

      just went back, at the bottom of the window you can add any weight and any date, so I went back to dates I could remember and got more info entered.
    • Posts: 1,584 Member
      thanks - that worked perfectly :)
      Go into check-in, where you enter your weight, and at the bottom you can choose "edit prior entries." If you choose that and scroll down to the bottom you can add an additional weight for any date you choose. Do that and add your starting weight and date.
    • Posts: 50
      Thanks all! I was wondering the same thing.. 81 lbs lost, not 36!
    • Posts: 3 Member
      You can also go to apps->ticker->update your weight data. It has a spot for starting weight. :smile:
    • Posts: 45 Member
      Thank you for that question and especially for the answer. I had been wondering about that for sometime now and it was a quick fix. :smile:
    • Posts: 233 Member
      Go into check-in, where you enter your weight, and at the bottom you can choose "edit prior entries." If you choose that and scroll down to the bottom you can add an additional weight for any date you choose. Do that and add your starting weight and date.
      Done! Thank you, Lemurcat.:flowerforyou:
    • Posts: 9,603 Member
      Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU!!!!!!!

      I'm going to try now. :D
    • Posts: 9,603 Member
      Go into check-in, where you enter your weight, and at the bottom you can choose "edit prior entries." If you choose that and scroll down to the bottom you can add an additional weight for any date you choose. Do that and add your starting weight and date.
      I meant to quote this before. Still learning Internet stuff.

      Thank you so much. It now says 50 pounds instead of 20. :)

      50 down, 50 (or 60, we'll see) to go!!

      It's fun to see the real number. Shallow and silly, but fun. :)
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