After I moved back from New Jersey in June 2008 I started to track my body weight more seriously. My routine usually consists of getting up and after finishing the morning bathroom I would step on my scale. That way I try to ensure that the condition for each weighing are as similar as possible. I recorded my weight on paper and eventually would put everything into a spreadsheet for further analysis.

In January 2011 I upgraded my bathroom scale to the Withings WiFi Body Scale. That way I could automate the process of tracking my weight by just stepping on it. No more writing on paper and eventually transferring everything into spreadsheets.

The people at Withings provide an API so external services could access your weight data. A nice way to get better charts is through Trendweight. Just link your Withings account to the web site and they will generate nice JavaScript charts of your weight/body fat/lean mass. Another great feature is the export functionality where you can export a comma separated version of your data including trend values for total weight as well as fat %, fat mass, and lean mass.

Using the exported data we can fire up R to look at the data: