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Keeping personal statistics

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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 :-)
 
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
 
Andrew Colvin said:
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
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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
 
demidz said:
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
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Thanks! Recently installed iKeepStats - dealing with personal activity and stats became waaaay to easier :)
 
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