How to dial in the app to help you analyze your deficit!

step 1: set it color neutral

We love Happy Scale, but red = bad and green = good can mess with your head when you’re trying to go into a deficit and “be in the red”.

Open your HappyScale app:

Select Settings ➡️

Select Appearance ➡️

Set color theme for losing weight to “Blue”
Set color theme for gaining weight to “Blue”

Step 2: update your settings

Open your HappyScale app:

Select Settings ➡️

Select Weight Goals ➡️

Set objective to “Lose Weight”
Set “Starting Point” to the date you started your Fat Loss Phase
Toggle ON hide entries before start date (this has HappyScale hide your weight data prior to your deficit so you start with a clean slate)

update your settings PT2

Open your HappyScale app:

Select Settings ➡️

Select Weight Goals ➡️

Select My Goal Weight ➡️

Input my goal weight as the target weight number you’re looking to maintain at the end of this phase

Select “Stay Around”
In the goal weight range, put “2.0 lbs.”

update your settings PT3

Open your HappyScale app:

Select Settings ➡️

Select Weight Goals ➡️

Select My Goal Weight ➡️

Input in the I commit to lose field the midpoint of your target rate of gain.

For example: most of our female clients are targeting around a 0.7 - 0.9 lb/week rate of lose, so you would then select 0.8 lbs/week
Feel free to split your goal into as many segments as you’d like!

takeaways

If you’re just “looking” at day-to-day weigh-ins without a lens to look at the data through, it’s easy to make incorrect assumptions based on the “visual” scale fluctuations.

In our cohorts and 1:1 coaching, we have built-in trends modeling into client check-in forms so our clients can smooth the noise out of the fluctuations.

Additionally, our clients download these apps to take the data into their own hands, giving them peace of mind with the day-to-day scale data.

Having an app that helps with data visualization is key to mindset success, no matter your periodization phase.

Did you find this helpful? If you’d like the full PDF with how to set up HappyScale for every phase, drop your email below, and we’d love to send it to you!