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Keeping personal statistics

Oxog

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Hi!

A quick question, have ever tried to track your personal stats to get motivated? How many chocolate bars you eat per day/week/month or similar activities? And if you have, what tool do use to collect and analyze your data? Any help would be greatly appreciated
 
MyFitnessPal is quite good as it can log food and activity. There is also some great nutritional info there and a barcode scanner. It's free as well. Can be a good motivational tool. Try not to become too obsessed with tracking everything though, life's too short
 
Mysugr app or excel spreadsheet if your really bothered
 
I have an libreoffice spreadsheet which records date/time, bg, reading type (fasting, pre-prandial,...), hours since eating, what I ate, what exercise I did, general comments, remarks and questions (may make these a separate column in next sheet so I can extract them easily). I then have a set of columns that integrates the readings against mins at that reading to give a closer average as I tend to take several readings when I am higher than lower. From this I then estimate HBA1C values etc...

I then have several graphs so fasting against weight loss against time, bg against time etc... It is interesting that when I hit 15% of original body mass reduction my fasting variance around their mean become almost non-existent (.2 either side) whereas before that point it was up to .8 either side

I have been considering writing it all into a java program instead of a spreadsheet as I find many of the current free ones do not give you much information other than a graph

Oh I am so sad
 
Wow ! When do you find time to eat lol


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Now you know my secret to losing weight lol
 
I only ever keep detailed records when things go astray, I can never see the point in keeping a daily diary when things are going fine, besides the modern bg meters are good at storing most of the relevant data.
 
I will probably be the same eventually but I am only 3 months in at the moment
 
Mysugr app or excel spreadsheet if your really bothered
i track the spoons i used in tea and of course things like this
gave up with excel, have to turn on pc, use ikeepstats app - easier
 
i track the spoons i used in tea and of course things like this
gave up with excel, have to turn on pc, use ikeepstats app - easier
Thanks! Recently installed iKeepStats - dealing with personal activity and stats became waaaay to easier
 
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