DittoDan wrote: »

This discussion is for people that are seriously trying to lose weight.

You are the people that gain a pound or two during the week, record it on MFP, then correct your wayward ways, then lose a pound, then do your once-a-week-weigh-in. Then MFP updates your status that you lost a pound. But in reality, you didn't lose anything.

You get likes and comments from your friends. But after months and months, your total loss is a small amount.

I don't log gains anymore for the above reason.

I can see if you're logging gains... but then making progress by losing the temporary gain and then some more weight...but for those that have many months with little progress, why bother logging your gains? If you say, well I need accolades/likes to get me motivated, that's emotional response. Get with the program and try losing the weight.

Correct what your doing wrong or try something else.

There's your motivational rant for today!

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I was wondering about that just the other day and decided if I have a gain, I am not going to log it. I will log again when I get below where I was before the gain. . I have to admit I didn't even think about it showing as a loss when I re-lost the gain, but yes, it would look like I was losing more than I really was. The acknowledgments are nice, but I want to really lose and not have to explain that I gained and I am trying to lose it again.. And I am sure that at some point I will gain...

I don't log gains unless I go awhile without losing anything again. At some point I update it to reflect reality. I don't do it so I can get the congrats of people, just for my own benefit.

I have not gained back yet.

But I do a few things when I hit a plateau

The walk today after lunch.

My scale automatically sends the number of pounds lost to MFP as a status and it sends " X lost 0 lbs" when I gain. The gain in numbers only appears in the progress tab and I love it because I can look back and see the patterns. I never put my weight in manually. So I guess my scale keeps my status honest and I trust Withings and MFP thinking they know what they are doing.
Also, some people like the feedback, actually they get upset if they don't get any I didn't know there are people that actually don't want feedback.
About some people trying to lose weight for a while and they don't or they lose weight slow... Depends. The more pounds you weight the faster you lose in the beginning. The skinnier you get, the harder it gets. A 350 lbs person will lose 20- 25 lbs a month until they reach 190 lbs, that's when things get slower. But a person that's 150-180 lbs... They will probably lose 5-10 lbs a month, if that.

deksgrl wrote: »

I don't log gains unless I go awhile without losing anything again. At some point I update it to reflect reality. I don't do it so I can get the congrats of people, just for my own benefit.

This.

I've only done it once, it usually annoys me to be congratulated on losing weight that I had already lost, and gained back through binge eating. I had put my weight gain into a different app that I forgot was synced with MFP and it updated it in MFP.

FIT_Goat wrote: »

I've logged every day, regardless of gain or loss. But, I got tired of the misleading accolades. I eventually just turned off the feed notification for when I lose weight. It stops the problem, although it does remove the opportunity for people to get excited when I post a new scale low. Then again, if I really wanted, I could always just make the status on me own lauding my new weight.

I've done the same with all notifications too. I log both ways so I can see the chart and to show people later on that it is not a constant straight line.

But how about those people who post self-promoting links at the bottom of their posts. THAT annoys me!

The graph on MFP sucks anyway. I only log loses on it as a way to keep my grandma logging hers (we encourage eachother).

That's why I don't log gains unless they stick for longer than a couple weeks