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Weight Loss Forum / Low Carb / January 2004Weight Loss Spreadsheet
I made this for myself. It may give motivation to those who weigh daily and struggle to control calorie intake. It's free but you'll need Microsoft Excel. Good Luck! http://www.glowingtubes.com/p/Excel_Weight_Tracker.htm -- Steve (Reply address has been changed to protect the innocent) This RULES. Thank you thank you thank you. > I made this for myself. It may give motivation to those who weigh daily and > struggle to control calorie intake. [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > Steve > (Reply address has been changed to protect the innocent) Very nice...thanks. -- Hans Storoy > I made this for myself. It may give motivation to those who weigh daily and > struggle to control calorie intake. [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > Steve > (Reply address has been changed to protect the innocent) Shame you've tried to make money for very little work It would be nice if I could: a) track all my 11 months worth of data b) use metric units. I'm not going to pay you to make such trivial changes so; If you enter AAAAAAAABBAn as the password in the daily tracker sheet this will give you access so you can change your own scale and do what you damn well want with this file and not be charged $2 by this chiseller! For the novice user open the file click Tools, Protection, Unprotect Sheet and enter the password exactly as above (eight capital A's, two capital B's, another capital A and then a small n) this might not be this greedy bastards actual password but it works (Microsoft isn't very good at keeping secrets, hash keys indeed!) I haven't tried this password on the other file but it might work. Adam > Shame you've tried to make money for very little work > [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] > > Adam "Chiseler"? "Greedy"? Adam, it sounds like your blood pressure went up when you tried to unlock the spreadsheet. I hope you are better now. Believe me... this wasn't an attempt to make money. The spreadsheets are fully functional and useful (and will always be). They are not "trial versions" that expire. They are what they are. As I stated, I tried to make the range wide enough to encompass all of those that have a weight issue and want a visual aid to track their progress. If I had done this to try to skewer people into sending me $2, I would have disabled something like the graph or locked the top start date. It is generic with no ads, emails, names, or dates on the front. The only mention of money is at the very bottom of the "read me" file that is included in the zip. It is in regard to customization requests. I think that this spreadsheet serves it's purpose as it is with all the cells locked except for the ones where a number is entered by the user. There is no need to change anything else. You're just pissed because it was "protected" with a password (so I thought) to prohibit tampering. The fact is, I did it this way to discourage customization/repair requests. I'm apparently not the Excel whiz you are and what you call what I did "little work", I would call "a bit of effort" because I am not fluent in Excel. I'm still learning. I didn't whip this up in 15 minutes. I also created a workout spreadsheet that tracks running and biking miles/times/weekly/monthly/yearly. Like this one, I felt good about it when I was finished so about three years ago I placed it on my homepage for people to download and use for free. I'm a good guy. Quite a few others apparently liked it, as well. It wasn't long before I was getting customization requests (some of which I didn't know how to do). And I didn't have the sheet "protected" so people were accidentally deleting formulas from cells that made the sheet work. My email address was left in the footer list so I was getting year-old mangled spreadsheets with a year's worth of data sent to that email address with pleas to fix something that the user had accidentally messed up. I helped when I could figure out what was wrong. So on this one, I decided to protect all the cells that someone would not need access nor need to change. Did I Spam this group? I don't think so. Do I think I'm going to make money? No. Will the average user accidentally delete a formula from his/her spreadsheet? Not this time. Will I still help people without charging them a fee? Of course. I'm a nice guy.  SignatureSteve (Reply address has been changed to protect the innocent) If you charge $2 to change the scale on a graph that works out at $240 per hour seeing as it takes less than 15 seconds to do. I'd call that greedy. If you put up a sheet as freeware and unprotected then anyone can customise it in any way they want. If they screw it up they can always redownload it or retrieve it from the original zip file. Which of these statements is correct? 1) from the readme file: If you would like the weight range chaanged, Paypal me $2 and send me the file with a description of what you want and I'll change the range(s) and send it back to you via email. Paypal ID and email: sgxxxxx@hotmail.com or 2) Will I still help people without charging them a fee? Of course. I'm a nice guy. They seem to contradict each other unless you'd only charge for changing the weight range and you'd do everything else for free. Seems a bit arbitary to me. If you want no customisation requests then say so. Tell you what, when I have time I'll modify your sheet to put in a user defined weight range and email it to you, all for no fee whatsoever. Adam PS I've never been called a whiz before, thanks. I'm not though, just read the books. > If you charge $2 to change the scale on a graph that works out at $240 per > hour seeing as it takes less than 15 seconds to do. I'd call that greedy. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Which of these statements is correct? You really need to get over yourself, Adam. He's provided a very useful tool for free. If someone wants to pay him to customize it, $2 is a fine fee. Do you work for free? I bet your employer will be glad to know you do. I appreciate the spreadsheet like it is. A LOT. If you liked that spreadsheet then just send me $5 and i promise to send u an even better one (honest). I'm a good guy :-) I'll customise it for free if you want. It bugs me that people like Stevie charge money for doing very little. My mother was recently quoted ?150 plus taxes to change a hard drive in her computer. I guess parasites will always choose the vulnerable. All Stevie has to do is click two boxes in an options dialogue to enable Excel to automatically select the weight range to suit. He hasn't and will charge you $2 for the "service". If you want to pay him then that's fine. For the record, unprotect the sheet, click on the "Pounds" axis graph. An options box should open. Click scale and select Auto Minimum and Auto Maximum. then save the sheet. Was that worth $2? If you think so then perhaps you'd be interested in some bridges I've got for sale in London. I can also put you in touch with someone who sells some wonderful medicine based on the oil from a snake which cures all known ailments. Adam > > If you charge $2 to change the scale on a graph that works out at $240 per > > hour seeing as it takes less than 15 seconds to do. I'd call that greedy. [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > I appreciate the spreadsheet like it is. A LOT. I meant to go and download this, but forgot to save the message. Can someone repost it with instructions? Thanks in advance! Peace, Bette :) > I'll customise it for free if you want. > [quoted text clipped - 36 lines] > > > > I appreciate the spreadsheet like it is. A LOT. > I meant to go and download this, but forgot to save the message. Can > someone repost it with instructions? > Thanks in advance! > Peace, Bette :) It's here- http://www.glowingtubes.com/p/Excel_Weight_Tracker.htm :) OK, now I'm REALLY confused!! From what I remember, the spreadsheet looked just fine the way it was. I was THRILLED!! So is it not good the way it is? What do you mean 'customize' it? What would you need customizing on?? Again, I haven't downloaded it yet. Peace, Bette :) > > Shame you've tried to make money for very little work > > [quoted text clipped - 78 lines] > Will I still help people without charging them a fee? > Of course. I'm a nice guy. >>> Shame you've tried to make money for very little work >>> [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] >>> so you can change your own scale and do what you damn well want with >>> this file and not be charged $2 by this chiseller!BetteBoop wrote: > OK, now I'm REALLY confused!! From what I remember, the spreadsheet > looked just fine the way it was. I was THRILLED!! So is it not good > the way it is? What do you mean 'customize' it? What would you need > customizing on?? Again, I haven't downloaded it yet. > Peace, Bette :) Hi Bette. It's great the way it is - but I'm biased :) Adam's issue was the average user couldn't unprotect the cells that contained the formulas to father customize the sheet and I have a sentence at the very bottom of the instructions in accompanying "Read Me" file that I will do customizations for $2. For this, I'm a crook and a parasite and I'm sorry. Seriously, you can use it without fear of accidentally deleting or dragging something that shouldn't be deleted or dragged. It serves it's intended purpose and no modification is needed whatsoever. I recently put up metric versions. Steve > Seriously, you can use it without fear of accidentally deleting or > dragging something that shouldn't be deleted or dragged. It serves > it's intended purpose and no modification is needed whatsoever. It's quite nice, and thank you. I do have a suggestion, if you don't mind. If you're tinkering with it, consider having the graph start at 100 pounds or so. Alternatively, you could have the graph draw a line across itself at the goal weight. It'd make the weight loss look much more impressive. In any case, I like it quite a lot, you did a great job. Chakolate SignatureYou might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward. --James Thurber Here is one more spreadsheet if anyone would like it. >I made this for myself. It may give motivation to those who weigh daily and >struggle to control calorie intake. > >It's free but you'll need Microsoft Excel. Good Luck! > >http://www.glowingtubes.com/p/Excel_Weight_Tracker.htm It might help if I attach the link. http://www.geocities.com/weightloss99a/ |
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