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Weight Management with PyWeight
PyWeight makes weight management simple!
The approach we take to weight management requires you to weigh yourself every day.
PyWeight uses these values to calculate a more accurate estimate of your weight changes over time. Don't worry if the measurements seem to fluctuate a lot. Day to day changes in your weight are more likely to be the result of water weight than anything to be concerned about.
PyWeight works best if you have an accurate scale, preferably a digital one, with measurement precision to at least 0.2 pounds (0.1 kg).
Any such scale will do, you don't need any advanced features --- and you shouldn't trust some features, like body fat measurements.
When you plan a diet with PyWeight, you'll enter your desired rate of weight change (for example, losing 1 pound a week) into the program. PyWeight will help you hit that target by determining whether you missed your goal, and estimating by how many calories, every several weeks.
If you are creating precise meal plans, you can use this information to make an exact adjustment to your intake. Because PyWeight's advice is based on models derived from many people who aren't fully like you, you might find that PyWeight consistently overestimates or underestimates the change you need to make. In that case, you can make a reasonable adjustment based on the value PyWeight provides.
A major advantage of Pyweight, though, is that it is easy to make diet adjustments without calorie counting or precise meal plans. If PyWeight tells you to eat 100 more calories a day, you can guess about how much of a change that is. It's not a big deal if you get it wrong; after another period of several weeks, you'll be prompted again to make changes. As long as you continue to move in the right direction each time, you can expect to see success.