The FatWatch Weight Log

FatWatch is a tool for your iPhone or iPod touch to help you track and analyze your body weight. It uses methods described in The Hacker's Diet by John Walker.

Take a tour and then buy it on the App Store.
Jan 7 '11
“This is why I tell my friends that dieting is more like balancing a checkbook than anything else. No magic food, no magic nutrients. No pills, shots, or surgery.”
— Math for Losers - Tarjema Translations

Jan 6 '11

Anonymous asked:

How do I get my weights to record in decimals? I'm only seeing whole integers in the scrolling list.

Go to the Settings app, scroll down to find FatWatch. From there you can change your Scale Precision:

  • 1.0 means numbers like 100, 101, 102, 103, …
  • 0.5 means numbers like 100.0, 100.5, 101.0, 101.5, …
  • 0.1 means numbers like 100.0, 100.1, 100.2, 100.3, …

You can also select 0.2 and 0.05 if that’s what your scale displays. Selecting an increment to match your scale will make weight input quicker and easier.

Also note that changing the precision only changes how numbers are displayed, not stored. So if you change to whole numbers (1.0) and then change back to one-tenths (0.1) you won’t lose any data.

Jan 6 '11
“Which takes us back to plateaus. Watching my weight drop at something over four pounds per week is exciting. The FatWatch app on my iPod Touch has a neat feature where it projects the date when you will hit your goal weight based on current trends. Instead of May, I have been watching it hover around mid-January. Very exciting. However, with the slowdown over the last week – and, honestly, I ate less than 2,000 calories per day on Saturday and Sunday – the date has been slipping out to mid-, then late February.”
— On Plateaus - Tarjema Translations

Jan 5 '11
The Hacker’s Diet, FatWatch and LoseIt! - Tarjema Translations

Jan 4 '11
9 Top iPhone Apps for Runners | warriorwomen running blog

FatWatch is mentioned, along with a few other great apps.

Jan 3 '11
New year, new price

If you’ve considered applying the mathematics of The Hacker’s Diet toward your New Year’s resolution to lose weight, now is a great time to start: FatWatch’s price has been cut in half! See some screenshots or check it out on the App Store.

If you purchased FatWatch in 2010 or earlier, be sure to register your copy: you’ll be eligible for a special discount in the future.

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Dec 31 '10
obamarama: Everyone thought the President’s little prank was hilarious… until they remembered Marvin’s serious body image issues. Happy New Year!

obamarama:

Everyone thought the President’s little prank was hilarious… until they remembered Marvin’s serious body image issues.

Happy New Year!

400 notes (via obamarama)

Dec 5 '10

Dec 4 '10
The Hacker’s Diet includes an optional exercise program. It’s organized around a metaphorical ladder: you start on the first rung, where you do a series of exercises (3 sit ups, 2 push ups, etc.). The second rung is a little bit harder (4 sits ups, 3 push ups), and so on. As your fitness improves, you move up the ladder, until you find a level appropriate for you. When I first read the book and started using Eat Watch, I ignored the Exercise Ladder; my apartment building had a gym (a room with a treadmill) so I made up my own exercise plan. As a result, rung tracking was not a priority for me, and I left it out of the initial version of FatWatch. Even though FatWatch provides plenty of room in the Note field to track your rung, a lot of people requested a dedicated field. So I added one! Unfortunately, a lot of people still request this feature, which means I’ve done a poor job of making it discoverable. To enable Exercise Ladder tracking: Switch to the More tab. Select Marks. Select the fourth (gold) mark. Tap the “Use for Exercise Ladder” button. From now on, that gold mark will behave a little bit differently. On the Log view, instead of a filled-in or empty box, a number (your rung) will be displayed. If you haven’t exercised that day, a small diamond appears. On the weigh-in screen, tapping the gold mark will summon the Exercise Ladder screen, pictured above. If you’re ready to move up (or down) the ladder, use the arrow buttons on the top left. When you’ve performed your exercises for the day, tap Save to record the rung into the log and return to the weigh-in screen. If you’ve recorded a rung by mistake (you didn’t exercise that day), the Clear button will remove the rung entry from the log. If you just want to dismiss the screen without making any changes, tap Cancel. The Exercise Ladder screen also tells you the number of repetitions to do for each exercise. Be sure to read the descriptions of the exercises in The Hacker’s Diet to ensure you are doing them correctly.

The Hacker’s Diet includes an optional exercise program. It’s organized around a metaphorical ladder: you start on the first rung, where you do a series of exercises (3 sit ups, 2 push ups, etc.). The second rung is a little bit harder (4 sits ups, 3 push ups), and so on. As your fitness improves, you move up the ladder, until you find a level appropriate for you.

When I first read the book and started using Eat Watch, I ignored the Exercise Ladder; my apartment building had a gym (a room with a treadmill) so I made up my own exercise plan. As a result, rung tracking was not a priority for me, and I left it out of the initial version of FatWatch.

Even though FatWatch provides plenty of room in the Note field to track your rung, a lot of people requested a dedicated field. So I added one!

Unfortunately, a lot of people still request this feature, which means I’ve done a poor job of making it discoverable.

To enable Exercise Ladder tracking:

  1. Switch to the More tab.
  2. Select Marks.
  3. Select the fourth (gold) mark.
  4. Tap the “Use for Exercise Ladder” button.

From now on, that gold mark will behave a little bit differently. On the Log view, instead of a filled-in or empty box, a number (your rung) will be displayed. If you haven’t exercised that day, a small diamond appears.

On the weigh-in screen, tapping the gold mark will summon the Exercise Ladder screen, pictured above.

  • If you’re ready to move up (or down) the ladder, use the arrow buttons on the top left.
  • When you’ve performed your exercises for the day, tap Save to record the rung into the log and return to the weigh-in screen.
  • If you’ve recorded a rung by mistake (you didn’t exercise that day), the Clear button will remove the rung entry from the log.
  • If you just want to dismiss the screen without making any changes, tap Cancel.

The Exercise Ladder screen also tells you the number of repetitions to do for each exercise. Be sure to read the descriptions of the exercises in The Hacker’s Diet to ensure you are doing them correctly.

Nov 25 '10
iPad in Japan: Are my apps moving to iPad versions? Homescreen Edition It’s nice to see FatWatch on somebody’s home screen. Page 1, even! Since Kenji’s post I’ve addressed the iPad question.

iPad in Japan: Are my apps moving to iPad versions? Homescreen Edition

It’s nice to see FatWatch on somebody’s home screen. Page 1, even!

Since Kenji’s post I’ve addressed the iPad question.