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Weight Loss Chart - Start Tracking Down Your Development

Description: This article will teach you about weight loss chart so that when you wanted to have an organized weight loss plan, you will be able to track down your improvements daily.


Using a weight loss graph can help you maintain steady weight loss and allow you to determine where changes in diet or exercise need to occur. You can create a weight loss graph using Microsoft Word. By tracking your weight on a weekly or monthly basis, you should be able to meet weight loss goals, while maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Entering in your weight each week can motivate you to stick to a healthy diet and exercise plan.


Start a logbook


The best way to keep your weight records is in a loose-leaf binder. You could just use random pieces of paper, but you're far more likely to lose something that way. Make tabs for the following sections:


• Daily Log


• Monthly Logs


• Monthly Charts


• Long Term Charts


Keeping track of your weight takes less than a minute per day. Once your logbook is started, making the entries in it will quickly become part of your daily routine to the extent you hardly think about it any more.


• Weigh in


Weight records are most useful if you record your weight every day, at the same time of day, under the same circumstances. Since you will not have eaten since going to sleep, your body will tend to have its most consistent weight at that time. Always weigh yourself dressed the same way. The easiest way to get consistent results is to weigh in stark naked.


• Log daily weight


If you keep the log sheet in a book near your scale, you won't forget to enter your weight every day.


Even if you are using the Excel worksheet as your permanent log, it makes sense to record your weight on paper. At the end of the month, you can spend 5 minutes entering the data into the spreadsheet from the paper log.


• Log exercise rung


If you are following the optional exercise program, record the level of exercise in the “Rung” column, right after you complete the exercises for the day. If you skip a day, or are not participating in the exercise regime, leave the “Rung” entry blank.


• Daily summary


• Weigh yourself


• Record weight in log


• Calculate trend number (Non-Excel users only)


• Exercise (optional)


• Record exercise rung (optional)


• Every month


At the end of the month, the log is used to produce a weight and trend chart and to calculate weekly weight loss or gain and the daily calorie shortfall or excess.


• With Excel


Excel performs all the calculation and charting automatically. If you aren't using Excel, skip to the next section for the equivalent manual calculations. Load the current year's database, created originally as described above, into Excel.


Excel User Monthly Checklist
• Load WEIGHTyy.XLS


• Enter daily weight from log


• Enter daily exercise from log


• Save worksheet


• Print monthly log page and file


• Print monthly chart and file


• Make floppy disc backup


By hand


If you are keeping the log by hand and calculating the new trend number every day, when the end of the month arrives your log sheet is already complete.


• Monthly analysis


The chart is presented in the “Floats and sinkers” form described in the Signal and Noise chapter. The exercise rung is plotted as a light dashed line with missing days blank (or the whole line absent if you have opted not to exercise). The weight scale, in pounds, is at the left while the right hand scale reads exercise rungs.

• Long-term charts


Excel users can easily prepare long-term charts that show daily weight and the course of the trend over a number of months.