Hi everyone! I'm new here, but I just had my first weigh-in, and I'm incredibly impressed with the accuracy of the LoseIt! and FitBit apps' combined projections. Felt like sharing my experience and excitement :)
I'm a 26 year old male, 6'1", SW = 215, GW = 185. It's my first time ever seriously trying to lose weight, so I was pretty apprehensive about the whole thing. But I picked a goal weight loss of 2lbs per week. 30 pounds, 15 weeks. Started on 2/11/21, which puts target date of 5/27/21. Got myself a FitBit Charge 4, and started tracking. By June 1st, I'm going to weigh <185 lbs, gosh darnit!
Since starting 8 days ago, if I had hit my budget exactly every day, I'd have been expected to lose ~2.2 lbs by this morning. However, I have been an additional 4,200 calories under my budget (worked out a few times and FitBit added a bunch of calories to my budget those days). The extra 4,200 calorie-deficit equates to an additional ~1.2 pounds, for an expected total of ~3.4 pounds.
I lost 3.3.
That's >99% accuracy. I'm simply blown away. I know that 8 days is a pretty small sample size, but still. That's incredibly impressive. I was really, really skeptical of how the apps were calculating my expended calories and integrating them into my budget - "There's no way that 60 mins on the elliptical really burned that many calories, right?" I've never been happier to be proven wrong! For the first time in awhile, I'm a believer - in theses apps, and in myself.
Thanks for reading, and thanks for being a part of this community! It was really nice to have a place to share my excitement this morning. I have a feeling I'll be sticking around :)
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