Guides
Guides to reading your weight
Each guide answers one question people ask about the scale, starting with the short answer and citing its sources.
- Why your weight can jump 3 pounds overnightOvernight jumps on the scale mostly reflect water and the food still in your gut. Here’s what moves daily weight from one morning to another.
- What a weight trend is and how to read oneA weight trend is the smoothed line under your daily weigh-ins. Here’s how it’s built and what its range and weekly rate (like −0.3 lb/wk) tell you.
- How often to weigh yourself, and what skipped days doResearch links regular, often daily, self-weighing with greater weight loss. What gaps do to a weight trend, and why filling skipped days by hand misleads.
- When will I reach my goal weight? Why the answer is a rangeA goal-weight date is more useful as a span than as a single day. Why a straight-line estimate arrives too soon, and why some weight curves level off.
- Weight loss plateau or noise: how to tell them apartHow to tell a real flattening of your weight trend from scale noise, and why the rate eases off over a long campaign.
- What is adaptive TDEE and how is it calculated?Adaptive TDEE works out the energy you burn from food logs and the trend in your weight. Here’s the arithmetic, and why formulas are only a first guess.
- How to track GLP-1 doses alongside your weightWhy logging Wegovy, Zepbound, Ozempic, or Mounjaro doses next to your weight helps you and a prescriber spot patterns over months.
- Should you track your weight in a spreadsheet?What weight spreadsheets get wrong over months and years, and what to keep whether you stay with one or move the habit into an app.