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Thank you! Great links and very thought-provoking.

I record my daily weight, total calories, and exercise calories on a regular old spreadsheet, and the chart is derived from those columns and some calculated ones. I'd be happy to share it with you. I use OpenOffice, but I've got an Excel version at work that I could email you. Let me know.

My weight took a plunge this morning (3.8 lbs!), and rather than hopping on the irrational-glee-wagon, I did some more number crunching. I have data for the past 70 consecutive days, and I've discovered that my daily weigh-in has registered either no change or a decrease only 66% of the time. The other third were ups--all along! So it's literally two steps forward, one step back for me, but there was one really big step back a couple of weeks ago that threw all the calculations terribly out of whack.

I agree that anyone who can casually go completely off a diet and then easily get back on it probably doesn't have a significant weight problem to start with--at least, that's not behavior I can manage--but I think I could do a minor increase for a short period, as long as I write everything down. I raised my calorie bar on Livestrong by 150 and shall practice hovering around that number for a while.

What kind of scale do you have that calls for a nine-volt battery?