The green line to the right depicts holding the One Year Projection
on the Data Entry page steady. As experiment showed below,
Why fight the scale?
Let the projection on the data-entry page
do it for us.
that tugs
the scale
weight down along a natural
The name comes from radioactive decay, but the curve is everywhere.
E.g. oil well production decline or diffusion of an ink drop in water.
Decay Curve for the body.
The Upper chart has
Click on Step Response Below.
These numbers are standard for a control system.
two relevant
numbers. Firstly the horizontal 140lb line is what
we enter as a target. Secondly our bodies have a characteristic
Problem: People try shedding faster than this and trigger Famine Mode.
The body will abandon its decay curve and slow down instead.
rate of drop
originating with the rate at which we pull our
cells apart
and
Only a few tablespoons of them per day.
refresh them.
The lower chart shows the
Click on Step Response Below.
This is a standard test of a control system.
author's
actual drop, with
This comes from a spreadsheet plot.
Measure the slope
(%/yr), multiply by one year, and it wiggles but goes sideways.
a green line,
produced by walking 5km/day and pacing eating to give a few
hunger pangs
once per day.
That confirmed standard decay behavior, with a measured
rate of
just over one year, so the program uses that rate in its projections.
Cell recycling is a
There is a tendency in all living things to find an equilibrium.
See Homeostasis. (It's based upon negative feedback.)
tightly regulated
process, and if you try to force your weight down
faster,
Thinking about this is evolving.
However, it is pretty clear
the body clamps down on the burn-rate if we over-do dieting.
"Famine Mode"
will cause a
These are discouraging periods when hunger is the only result.
Disrupting normal regulation needlessly stretches out the rate of drop.
plateau.
Following
Tablespoons per day.
nature's pace
works much better.
Click for measuring the body's characteristic
"step response".
