This might be interesting...

[Gwynn]

Or not...

I have plotted calories eaten vs calories minus exercise, together with the exercise calories burned and the associated days body weight on a separate part. The graph covers the whole time since I started recording things sometime after diagnosis (hence the weight graph starts at around 80Kg).

It is an interesting graph showing the initial first few months of weight loss due to low calorie intake but very little exercise. Then a plateu where I was testing weight maintenance calories and other stuff. Then a final drive to my weight goal with raised calorie intake but significantly increased exercise.

Next will be weight maintenance.

I just think the graph is fascinating.



Doh! I got the title colours wrong.
Purple line is consumed calories
Red line is the daily exercise calories burned
Black line is the consumed calories minus the exercise calories or 'Effective Calories

Hopefully here is a corrected version


Sorry

 

[Docb]

Link not working for me @Gwynn. Dunno why. Want to try a different way of putting it up?

 

[Gwynn]

Not sure just yet. I will yave a think

 

[Gwynn]

This might work 2

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[Docb]

Ah, can see it in original post now. Weird, but thats software for you!

 

[Gwynn]

Hmmm software. Ohhh yess, bugs bugs and more bugs. I have written bugs, er, software since 1986 in various forms from actual machine code via thumb switches, right through to Ada, C++, you name it (almost). You can almost say as a rule, if theres more than 1 line of code there is likely a bug in there somewhere and the bugs multiply exponentially with the number of lines of code, branches, procedures, functions, variables, parallel processes, the time of day, you name it. And yet somehow we got the aeroplanes to fly and return safely !

I still write software. Kind of enjoy it. You can do almost anything

 

[Docb]

My brother, who is a long term IT pro, mostly hardware development, keeps on reminding me that software is called software for a reason.

Might be interesting to put some running averages on your plots to smooth them out a bit. The idea of looking at calories not consumed in exercise as a factor is quite interesting and eyeballing the graphs sort of suggests that the rate at which you were loosing weight at any time might be related to it.

 

[Gwynn]

Fair point. I kind of liked the spikes and swings but they do make it harder to see the overall picture.