Accuracy of Five-Week Prediction

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  • Theo166
    Theo166 Posts: 2,564 Member
    When you are at/under your goal it's kinda inspirational to stick with your plan.
    When you binged, it's a healthy slap in the face that you best not make it a habit.
  • jacmarsh
    jacmarsh Posts: 8 Member
    Christine_72 wrote: »
    It "might" be accurate if you ate the exact same food and calories and do the exact same exercise everyday for 5 weeks. Pretty impossible.

    That would certainly make it closer, but after doing the same exercise every day for a while, your body would get more efficient and burn less calories doing that exercise.
  • JeromeBarry1
    JeromeBarry1 Posts: 10,179 Member
    edited June 2017
    Oh no! Sucked into a necro thread!
  • inertiastrength
    inertiastrength Posts: 2,343 Member
    Some days mine is over and some days it's much more attractive to pay attention too. If your numbers are fairly consistent I'd say it's pretty accurate but I've never actually checked because my days are always so different
  • inertiastrength
    inertiastrength Posts: 2,343 Member
    JeromeBarry1 wrote: »
    Oh no! Sucked into a necro thread!

    Damn it me too
  • ilyo777
    ilyo777 Posts: 20 Member
    It would be far better if the 5 week prediction was based on say. 7 day rolling average tha. In a single days intake. As it is currently pretty much useless if you follow any kind of fasting routine which includes very low or zero calories on different days
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 34,204 Member
    ilyo777 wrote: »
    It would be far better if the 5 week prediction was based on say. 7 day rolling average tha. In a single days intake. As it is currently pretty much useless if you follow any kind of fasting routine which includes very low or zero calories on different days

    Like I said on the other thread, if you want that, get a weight trending app: Libra for Android, Happy Scale for Apple/iOS, Trendweight (requires a free Fitbit account but you don't need a device), Trendweight . . . there are probably others.

    Weigh daily under consistent conditions (first thing in AM, after bathroom before food/drink, same state of (un-)dress is good). Even the rolling trend is wrong, sometimes. It's still just statistics.
  • Kiwi2mfp
    Kiwi2mfp Posts: 166 Member
    It's not very accurate in my opinion. Sometimes I lose faster, sometimes not at all, and sometimes slower....but I'm not a machine so I don't eat the EXACT same calories every day.

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