A recent support email made me realize that FatWatch’s Trends screen could be clearer with regard to energy surplus/deficit information. Currently it displays:
- -0.14 lbs/week
- -69 cal/day
The above is supposed to convey, “On average, you are burning 69 calories more than you are eating each day.” It could probably be clearer. I had the idea of adding a label, such as:
- -0.14 lbs/week
- -69 cal/day (burning)
The word “burning” might help get that across. If your weight was trending up, it could instead display:
- +0.26 lbs/week
- +152 cal/day (eating)
I feel like that’s a slight improvement, but it could be better. Alternate ideas:
- -69 cal/day (undereating)
- +152 cal/day (overeating)
My spell check objects to “undereating” as a word, but acknowledges “overeating”. I think I prefer the symmetry, and although I like “burning” conceptually, the explanation seems clumsier. Maybe it would look better without the parenthesis:
- -69 cal/day undereating
- +152 cal/day overeating
Internet, what say you?
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