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Maintainers Weekly Check In - December 2018

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  • Orphia
    Orphia Posts: 7,097 Member
    How does everyone calculate their average weight for the month/week?

    Happy Scale doesn't give those figures, and it always seems like a pain to do it myself.
  • colorfulcoquette
    colorfulcoquette Posts: 94 Member
    Orphia wrote: »
    How does everyone calculate their average weight for the month/week?

    I have Happy Scale export my weight to the Apple Health app and that displays all the averaging info that I use - week, month, and year ☺️

  • Orphia
    Orphia Posts: 7,097 Member
    Orphia wrote: »
    How does everyone calculate their average weight for the month/week?

    I have Happy Scale export my weight to the Apple Health app and that displays all the averaging info that I use - week, month, and year ☺️

    Thanks heaps! I already had Happy Scale exporting to Apple Health, but had never looked for those stats there! :smiley: I love you! :smiley:
  • MadisonMolly2017
    MadisonMolly2017 Posts: 11,242 Member
    edited December 2018
    Orphia wrote: »
    How does everyone calculate their average weight for the month/week?

    Happy Scale doesn't give those figures, and it always seems like a pain to do it myself.

    Hi @Orphia !
    I use either Weight Guru (where I record my weight each morning) or Health on my iPhone. Just saw the other poster! I have MyNetDiary exporting into the Health app.
  • Orphia
    Orphia Posts: 7,097 Member
    Age: 51
    Total weight lost: 36 kg
    Time it took to lose: 12 months
    Time in maintenance: 2 years 8 months
    Height: 176 cm (5 ft 9.5 inches)
    Goal range: 64-66 kg
    Current moving average: 64.7 kg
    Today's weigh-in: 64.2 kg

    Average weight recorded from January: 65.2
    Average weight recorded from February: 64.7
    Average weight recorded from March: 64.2
    Average weight recorded from April: 64.6
    Average weight recorded from May: 64.2
    Average weight recorded from June: 64.4
    Average weight recorded from July: 65.3
    Average weight recorded from August: 65.3
    Average weight recorded from September: 65.3
    Average weight recorded from October: 65.7
    Average weight recorded from November: 65.4

    Week of...
    December 2: 65.6
    December 9: 65.4
    December 16: 64.7
    December 23:
    December 30:



  • missperfectpitch
    missperfectpitch Posts: 632 Member
    Orphia wrote: »
    How does everyone calculate their average weight for the month/week?

    Happy Scale doesn't give those figures, and it always seems like a pain to do it myself.

    I've got an Android phone, so the options are a bit different, but my Fitbit account is linked to MFP and the Fitbit app provides weekly averages. I do calculations for my monthly average, but at least it's only 4 numbers then.
  • missperfectpitch
    missperfectpitch Posts: 632 Member
    Name: missperfectpitch
    Height: 5'4"
    Total weight lost: About 43 pounds
    Time it took to lose: 1 year and 2 months
    How long in maintenance: I hit my goal weight in the beginning of January 2018, but officially started maintenance in mid-March 2018 after figuring out my calories for a couple of months.
    Maintenance weight range: 108-111.5

    Average weight recorded from January: 110.6
    Average weight recorded from February: 109.5
    Average weight recorded from March: 109.0
    Average weight recorded from April: 109.1
    Average weight recorded from May: 109.3
    Average weight recorded from June: 109.7
    Average weight recorded from July: 110.1
    Average weight recorded from August: 109.7
    Average weight recorded from September: 110.3
    Average weight recorded from October: 110.1
    Average weight recorded from November: 110.2

    Week of...
    December 1: 110.3 (trend 110)
    December 8: 108.8 (trend 109.4)
    December 15: 109.9 (trend 109.7)
    December 22:
    December 29:

    Success(es)/struggle(s) of the week: Started the week off really low, below the lowest end of the range and the lowest that I've been since I started maintenance. I was back in range for the rest of the week though, although most of that is from water weight, so I think that I'm still probably at the low end of the range. This is good though since I'll be away for the next 1.5 weeks with plans for a lot of eating out at nice restaurants and stopping at pastry/dessert shops, so I'll have some leeway and can enjoy eating everything.
  • mtaratoot
    mtaratoot Posts: 14,648 Member
    Orphia wrote: »
    How does everyone calculate their average weight for the month/week?

    Happy Scale doesn't give those figures, and it always seems like a pain to do it myself.

    I log my daily weight in Excel. I also track other biometric data when the button on my scale is working (body fat % estimate, body water content, bone mass). I have a column that automatically calculates a ten-day rolling average. It's actually not necessarily a ten DAY average - it's more of a ten ENTRY average. Some days I am away from a reliable scale, so it's just the average of the last ten days. That's the same as what Trendweight does; I use that, too. Once a week, I just run a seven day average off to the side. That one is just for the week, so it's a six-day average if I didn't weigh one week. At the end of the month, I run a monthly average. Easy peasy!
  • erjones11
    erjones11 Posts: 422 Member
    Name:Er
    Age: 49
    Height: 6’
    Total weight lost: 84 pounds
    Time it took to lose: 4 years
    How long in maintenance: 4 months
    Maintenance weight range:155 - 165
    Average weight recorded from 2017 (12 months): 211

    Average weight recorded from January: 213
    Average weight recorded from February: 211
    Average weight recorded from March: 202
    Average weight recorded from April: 195
    Average weight recorded from May: 184
    Average weight recorded from June: 180
    Average weight recorded from July: 172
    Average weight recorded from August: 165
    Average weight recorded from September: 160
    Average weight recorded from October: 159
    Average weight recorded from November: 159

    Week of...
    December 2: 161
    December 9: 157
    December 16:158
    December 23:
    December 30:

    Success(es)/struggle(s) of the week: sorry all I typed my age wrong last post I am 49 not 40. Stuck to the plan all week. A little under calories but my moms coming tomorrow and we are having turkey. I love turkey and have some calories to spare. Traveling some next week, so I will have less control as I can’t cook and won’t have a food scale. I’ll make it work though.
  • pkweier
    pkweier Posts: 349 Member
    Name:Pam
    Age:60
    Height:5'5
    Total weight lost:200
    Time it took to lose:Started Jan 1, 2016
    How long in maintenance:Sept 2107
    Maintenance weight range:130-135
    Average weight recorded from 2017 (12 months):

    Average weight recorded from January:
    Average weight recorded from February:
    Average weight recorded from March:
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    Average weight recorded from November

    Week of...
    December 2:139.2
    December 9:132.4
    December 16:129.4
    December 23:
    December 30:

    Success(es)/struggle(s) of the week: Still losing the weight I gained while we were away. I have 4 more pounds to go till I get to where I was before we left although I am below my range. The next two weeks will not be easy as many parties and dinners out.
  • stephenearllucas
    stephenearllucas Posts: 255 Member
    Name: Stephen
    Age: 58
    Height: 6'2"
    Total weight lost: 67 lbs.
    How long in maintenance: 1 year, 11 months
    Maintenance weight range: 190-195

    January: 179.5
    February: 181.2
    March: 181.1
    April: 182.2
    May: 184.0
    June: 186.4
    July: 188.3
    August: 191.7
    September: 194.8
    October: 194.7
    November 195.0

    Week of...
    December 2: 195.2
    December 9: 196.7
    December 16: 198.9
  • colorfulcoquette
    colorfulcoquette Posts: 94 Member
    Age: 43
    Height: 5'2"
    Total weight lost: 45
    Time it took to lose: 30 lbs in about 9 months, the rest over a year
    How long in maintenance: about 6 years
    Maintenance weight range: 103-106
    Average weight recorded from 2017 (12 months): probably around 108?

    Average weight recorded from January: 102.8
    Average weight recorded from February: 102.8
    Average weight recorded from March: 102.9
    Average weight recorded from April:102.9
    Average weight recorded from May:103.1
    Average weight recorded from June: 103.5
    Average weight recorded from July: 103.5
    Average weight recorded from August: 103.9
    Average weight recorded from September: 103.4
    Average weight recorded from October: 102.7
    Average weight recorded from November: 101.8

    Week of...
    December 7:101.6
    December 14:101.3
    December 21: 100.0
    December 28:

    Success/Struggles: Upped my calories this week but I'm still losing. I'm going to increase again. It just messes with my head that I'm eating more that I was when I'd been slowly gaining.
  • Orphia
    Orphia Posts: 7,097 Member
    Age: 51
    Total weight lost: 36 kg
    Time it took to lose: 12 months
    Time in maintenance: 2 years 8 months
    Height: 176 cm (5 ft 9.5 inches)
    Goal range: 64-66 kg
    Current moving average: 64.6 kg
    Today's weigh-in: 64.6 kg

    Average weight recorded from January: 65.2
    Average weight recorded from February: 64.7
    Average weight recorded from March: 64.2
    Average weight recorded from April: 64.6
    Average weight recorded from May: 64.2
    Average weight recorded from June: 64.4
    Average weight recorded from July: 65.3
    Average weight recorded from August: 65.3
    Average weight recorded from September: 65.3
    Average weight recorded from October: 65.7
    Average weight recorded from November: 65.4

    Week of...
    December 2: 65.6
    December 9: 65.4
    December 16: 64.7
    December 23: 64.6
    December 30:

    Aimed to get to low goal range before Chrimbo. I'm happy, and looking forward to an enjoyable, festive week this week.

    Note to self: Your weight will be up at the next weekly check-in - and that's a good thing!!
  • mtaratoot
    mtaratoot Posts: 14,648 Member
    Name: It's ME!
    Age: About a year older than I was last year. (middle aged)
    Height: Just short of 5' 7"
    HEAVIEST weight: 175.4 in early 2013.
    Total Weight lost: 30 pounds
    Time it took to lose: ~6 months
    How long in maintenance: ~ 5 months (July, 2018) -- but with some fluctuation outside of goal range.
    Maintenance weight range: 142 - 148 (and not sure that's the right answer)
    Average weight recorded from 2017 (12months): 163.8

    RECENT weight about 170 during most of 2017
    ACTUAL weight recorded from January 2, 2018 (only weigh-in that month): 168.2

    Average weight recorded from February: 157.5
    Average weight recorded from March: 154.4
    Average weight recorded from April: 153.2
    Average weight recorded from May: 151.6
    Average weight recorded from June: 150.2
    Average weight recorded from July: 146.8
    Average weight recorded from August: 148.1
    Average weight recorded from September: 148.8
    Average weight recorded from October: 146.5
    Average weight recorded from November: 148.4

    Average weight Week of...

    Nov 26 - Dec 2: 147.4
    December 3 - 9: 152.2
    December 10 - 16: 150.6
    December 17 - 23: 151.7
    December 24 - 30:

    Success of the week: My scale weight is coming back down. Some was fluid retention from muscle repair.

    Struggle of the week: My seven-day and ten-day average weight is still going up, but that will change as scale weight continues to come down. I am almost back down to the top of my maintenance range.
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