The trend line says 125 pounds gone and I believe it and I am finally letting myself believe it

Congrats — 125 down is huge. The 7-day average is the right move. I switched to a 10-day EMA in my spreadsheet and also plot a 30-day slope, because the daily noise is mostly sodium/carb/water stuff.

Concrete example: a sushi-and-soy-sauce dinner plus bad sleep gave me a +2.4 lb blip that was gone by day 3. If you're nerdy about it, maybe also log waist and resting HR once a week; in the trials, weight trend plus a non-scale metric helps separate real fat loss from fluid shifts.

Do you weigh same conditions after bathroom before coffee? That's the one thing that made my line less jagged.

I’m a spreadsheet nerd too, but I added a second tab: Sunday waist measure, a photo from my usual walk, and one line about what I cooked that week. Seeing “made minestrone” next to a flat scale week keeps me sane. The daily number

ngl congrats on 125! As a dorm rat whose “meal prep” is a microwave and a can of tuna, I feel this.

My scale bounces like it’s auditioning for a trampoline team whenever dining hall stir-fry happens. I also use a 7-day average in a Google Sheet, plus a dumb column called “weird dinner?” — ramen night usually shows +1.5 lbs of water that vanishes by Wednesday.

Do you log anything besides weight, like sodium or steps? And what formula do you use for the trend line? I

Hi, I’m only on day 4, so I’m still in the “weigh, gasp, log, repeat” phase. 61 weeks of daily entries is seriously impressive. I’ve got a pair of last-summer jeans on the closet door as my non-scale check — did you add waist or hip measurements to your spreadsheet too, or just weight?

I’m trying to decide if a monthly tape measure is helpful or just one more thing to obsess over. Thanks for posting this.

125 pounds gone is massive — and the spreadsheet nerd detail made me smile. One thing that helped me: I added tiny habit columns next to my weight (sleep 7+ hours, 20-min walk, water).

My trend line moves most after a few good-sleep days, not after “perfect” food days. Do you track any non-weight habits in the same sheet, or is it weight-only?

And what’s the first non-scale win you noticed around this milestone — clothes, stairs, energy?

One thing that made my spreadsheet more useful: I added a column for "likely cause" next to any day that deviates >1.5 lb from trend. After ~4 months the pattern was obvious — most spikes traced to sodium or a hard lifting session, not intake. Meant I stopped reacting to them entirely.

Also started logging waist at the navel monthly; it kept dropping through a 6-week scale plateau, which was reassuring. Curious — what's your trendline slope now versus your first 10 weeks? Mine's flattened from ~2.1 to ~1.2 lb/wk and I'm trying to gauge how much of that is expected.

The spreadsheet nerdery is valid. My road trick: I pack a flat travel scale and a square of stiff plastic so I’m not fighting plush hotel carpet, which can add a fake 1.5 lbs. Airport tile? TSA definitely side-eyed it once. I

Fellow spreadsheet nerd here. The thing that saved my sanity was layering a weekly waist measurement at the navel and average gym lifts over the 7-day scale

I’m an empty nester too, and my spreadsheet has a column for “walk after dinner? yes/no.” Those evening walks do more for my weekly average than any heroic gym day. I also note whether I cooked at home or ate out. The trend line is boring but honest.

Question: did you ever hit a stretch where the 7-day average flattened for 3+ weeks? What did you change—if anything—or did you just wait it out?