Is this website accurate?

rcanon777 wrote: »

I'm just getting started and only looking to lose 10-12 lbs. I noticed as I track my food each day, it tells me at the end that if I keep at that certain calorie count/day, I'll be at such and such weight in 5 weeks. Does others that have been doing this longer than myself see that this weight amount appears to be accurate?

Thanks!

For some it is, for others it isn't. In my case, it told me I should have been below 200 pounds six weeks ago...hasn't happened yet.

It has been pretty accurate for me so far. I've been logging 14 weeks and I'm pretty consistent. It is just simply calculating the projected loss on that one day log. If you have a good or bad day, it will move accordingly.

Mine is pretty accurate.

If you actually kept whatever deficit you created that day for every day for 5 more weeks - likely yes. But that's about impossible. 50 cal over goal is better than 100 below consistently.

Whatever you do, don't let that ridiculous encouragement cause you to attempt bigger weight loss speed than is reasonable.

Just encouragement to select 1/2 lb weekly weight loss goal with so little left to lose. No need setting up a fight with your body you'll lose (but not fat weight).

It's just to be used as a guideline and probably changes every day. If mine consistently says for a few days in a row that I'll weigh the same or more in five weeks, I adjust my diet or know that I have to be more strict in the days ahead. It doesn't necessarily mean that you will weigh what it says you will, it just gives you a guideline to follow for how well you did that day.