What happens when you don't weigh in for a couple days

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I am out of town for a couple days and not necessarily taking a break but I won’t have my withings scale to weigh in. All of my data comes automatically from my scale. What will happen if I don’t weigh in for a few days?

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It does what you might expect: it just doesn’t enter a datapoint.

If your road is going down, that means you might derail while you’re away; otherwise, nothing will change and you can resume as normal when you get back. The graph will just show a couple of days with no dots.

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I thought that the road-widening guarantee of “If you’re in the right lane today, you can’t derail tomorrow” is only provided if you weigh in every day. I mean, I think that your next data point after skipping a weigh in can derail you regardless of your prior road position.

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Yep. This means that you’ll need to be brave and risk derailment when standing on the scale for the first time after a break. Ideally, that possibility should also help moderate your eating while you’re out of town.

For myself, particularly when I know that I’ve backslid while away and am likely to derail, the best solution is to suck it up and let the road reset to where I actually am right now, weight-wise. To make this less unpalatable (and reduce unwanted resistance) I’ll set a pledge cap so that this (still hypothetical, but scarily possible) derailment doesn’t increase the pledge this time around. Because I know that continuing not to track my weight by avoiding the scale isn’t going to make things better…

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Thanks for this question, and for the answers, everyone! As @bee points out in the intro video on the front page, you might also choose to schedule a break in your yellow brick road to make your weight loss road slope up while on vacation.

We’re also treating this as yet another vote for a proper road editor, as well as a “true break” feature, as an actual gap in the road and with the property that the road resumes at whatever weight you happen to be at at the end of the gap.

I should also mention that auto-widening is on the chopping block. We have a way to handle this that’s both simpler and better – just have to work out a small UI difficulty.

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