Since the beginning of August I have been on a quest to lose 20 pounds. I am doing all right so far, mostly thanks to a veggie-filled, low-salt, restaurant food-averse diet. As the daily weight chart below demonstrates, I have been losing about 1 pound per week, which is my goal. By Christmas, I intend to be at my target weight of 170 pounds.

The chart is very helpful to me, because it visually distinguishes the outlier weights (the artificial highs after I eat a salty, fatty pizza, and the unsustainable lows after an unusual two-salad day) from the overall weight-loss or weight-gain trend.  The red dots reflect my actual weight readings. The thin blue line is the moving average of my weight (the important number). The straight black line is the overall trend, which, thankfully, is downward.

I'm losing about 1 pound per week

If you want to track your own weight similarly, check out PhysicsDiet.com. You can also view my public profile there, too.