Weight Log: Loss vs. Trend?

Hi all,

Sorry if this is written somewhere... start of week 2 and just trying to track my weight loss...

In the Weight Log... there are two lines (blue and green) denoting weight loss and weight trend.  I've gathered that the weight loss line is based on numbers I enter.

What is the weight trend line based on and how should I interpret it?

Thanks!

 

hey welcome... paste this, it will take you to the link which explains all about it!!! 

www.calorie-count.com/calories/help.php?id=6

Ive never understood that either... even when I read the short explanation

thanks, that helps a little...

i was mainly curious because I haven't had any yo-yo weight fluctuation (it's only been a week and i don't weight myself daily)... in any event, the trend line is about 3 lbs different from my most recent weigh in.

my questions are:

1) how is the trend line calculated?

2) how should I (or should I) interpret the trend line? or is the trend line more meaningful after longer periods of time (1 month, 3 months, 6 months)?

The green line is your average between your weight variations.  I think of it as pulling the line taunt, and it lands in you average weight for a period of time.   Hope this helps.

This is how they explained it...

The scatter in the data (blue curve) could make you believe that Erik was experiencing a yo-yo effect at that time. In reality, however, the scatter was induced by the variation in his water weight, which obviously amounted to up to 4 pounds from one day to another. That’s why it is a good idea to be able to see a trendline of that data (green line), which tells us that Erik actually lost 6 pounds in that time period.


The blue line represents your actual daily weight, and the green line is a moving average trendline.

HOWEVER... My trendline is well above my actual line (and i only report loss never water weight fluxuations) so it can be misleading

My line blue is my actual weight, the green line being the trend line I always thought was the line where CC predicted where you would be at that time.  So if you lose 2lbs to 190 the trend would have you at 190.5 because of the anticipated 1.5 per week.  So your blue would be below the green.  Thats how I interpret mine.

The green line is calculated by averaging the last 10 entries you have made. So it kind of means something different to someone who weighs and logs daily (fluctuations and all) or someone who only logs weekly. Some people won't log increases, others input whatever the scales say.

So if you weigh daily, it's an average of the last 10 days weigh-ins. If you weigh weekly, it's the average of the last 2.5 months (or so).