A range, not a single number
Loopa charts your weight trend against your goal weight. It has no maintenance-band setting: the range is a way of reading the chart, not a feature.
Weight maintenance
Keep the Trend Steady Without Turning Maintenance Into Another Diet.
Use as much or as little tracking as you need to notice long-term drift while letting ordinary day-to-day fluctuations remain ordinary.
Weight, food, hydration and recent trends are available in Loopa Basic.
Loopa Basic
What success actually means
Maintenance changes the job from creating movement to noticing drift.
A fat-loss phase often has a defined direction. In maintenance, readings are expected to wander, and what matters is where the trend sits over months.
Drift is the thing to catch
The outcome is a trend that stays roughly where you want it, and a small drift noticed while a small change can still address it.
Maintenance calories are an estimate
At a maintain pace, setup estimates resting energy and multiplies it by an activity factor, with no deficit. Adjust from the trend.
What Loopa tracks
Enough signals to notice drift.
Maintenance does not need every tracker running every day. These are the ones that tend to matter.
Readings and the trend
Every weigh-in, with a smoothed trend line over a rolling 30 days in Basic and your whole history in Premium.
EnteredTrendBasic: 30 days
When you want it
Food and macro logging whenever you want context, with no requirement to log every day.
DatabaseEnteredLoopa Basic
The rest of the picture
Activity you log yourself, and vitals such as blood pressure, glucose and sleep hours, are in Basic.
EnteredEstimatedLoopa Basic
Seven kinds of number, and Loopa keeps them apart
- MeasuredA device produced it, such as a connected scale or watch.
- EnteredYou typed or picked it.
- DatabaseA food, product or published record supplied it.
- EstimatedLoopa calculated it, like estimated expenditure or a body-fat estimate.
- TrendA mathematical smoothing of the measurements you logged.
- TargetA planning value, like a calorie or protein target.
- OutcomeWhat actually happened over time.
Estimates and limits
What Loopa can estimate, and what it cannot know.
Loopa can estimate
- Maintenance calories, from estimated resting energy and an activity factor.
- A smoothed trend that may make gradual change easier to notice than isolated weigh-ins.
- How many days in a report range actually had data, on Premium.
Loopa cannot know
- Whether a regain is fat, water or lean tissue.
- Why the trend moved: food, activity, sleep, stress, medication or something else.
- The weight range that is right for you.
Loopa is a tracker, not a medical service. Its targets and forecasts come from equations and the product’s configured planning limits, and they are not a judgment about what is right for you. People with medical conditions, pregnancy, an eating-disorder history, medication effects, bariatric surgery or other circumstances may need individualized professional guidance.
Flexible tracking intensity
Choose how much attention maintenance gets.
These are ways to use Loopa, not modes the app switches for you.
1
More attention
During a drift or a transition: food, weight and activity, most days.
2
Light touch
Once the trend is stable: weigh in regularly and log food only when you want context.
3
Periodic review
Every few weeks, look at the longer trend or, on Premium, a personal report.
4
Skip without penalty
A day with no entries ends the logging streak. Targets, history and the trend carry on.
Choose your plan
Free vs Premium for maintenance
Maintenance is a goal many people run on Basic. Neither tier is required.
Start here
Loopa Basic
$0, with no ads.
- Weight logging
- The weight trend line 30 days
- Food and macro logging, with unlimited meals
- Water and fluids
- Activity you log yourself
- Vitals, including blood pressure, glucose and sleep hours
- Progress photos
- Home-screen and lock-screen widgets
- Reminders
Loopa Premium adds
$12.99 a month or $69.99 a year for one person. Loopa Premium Family covers up to 6 people for $19.99 a month or $119.99 a year.
- Full history beyond the rolling 30 days
- The personal report, and its PDF
- Body measurements
- Device sync, including Apple Health and Health Connect
- The AI coach
- H3, the habit helper
How Loopa handles it
The weight maintenance tools, on real screens
What each tool does, what it assumes, and which plan it is in.
DriftBasic: 30 days
Notice Small Drift Before It Becomes a New Trend.
Regain is often gradual, and each week can look like the last one. A smoothed trend may make gradual change easier to notice than isolated weigh-ins.
Keep logging your weight, and look at where the trend sits over several weeks before changing anything.
How the trend line works
- It is an exponentially weighted moving average with a smoothing factor of 0.10, which gives each reading a half-life of about 6.6 days.
- It needs at least three weigh-ins across seven days, and says what is missing instead of guessing.
- Basic draws a rolling 30 days. Nothing is deleted, and subscribing later makes the whole record readable again.
Light touchLoopa Basic
A lightweight check-in, when you need one
A few quick logs are enough on most days. Widgets put the day’s numbers on your home screen or lock screen, so a glance can replace opening the app.
Widgets carry no paywall of their own. A widget for a Premium feature has nothing to draw until you have it.
- Reminders ride the trackers they belong to, and they are in Basic.
- The Apple Watch app is in Basic too.
Periodic reviewLoopa Premium
A monthly read instead of daily vigilance
On Premium, the personal report reads back 7, 30 or 90 days or a custom range in the app, and 30, 60, 90, 180 or 365 days in a browser, with a written summary at the top.
The report can show data completeness alongside the selected trends: beside each target it shows the share of logged days that met it.
- Export it as a PDF on your phone.
- Nothing is stored on the server except the written summary, which is kept for about a day.
After medical weight managementLoopa Premium
Maintenance Can Look Different After Medical Weight Management
After GLP-1 treatment or bariatric surgery, maintenance is planned with your prescriber or care team. This page does not give medication or surgery instructions.
Loopa can record the parts you track: weight and food in Basic, and GLP-1 or bariatric protocol tracking on Premium, with a clinician share report you can bring to appointments.
Where to go next
Evidence and limitations
What the numbers are, and what they are not.
- Scientific fact
The Mifflin-St Jeor equation estimates resting energy expenditure from weight, height, age and sex. Maintenance calories built on it are an estimate for any one person.
Source: Mifflin MD et al., American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 1990
- Scientific fact
In a study of everyday habit formation, the median time for a new behavior to become automatic was 66 days, with a range from 18 to 254 days. Routines settle at very different speeds for different people.
Source: Lally P et al., European Journal of Social Psychology, 2010
- Product design choice
The weight trend is an exponentially weighted moving average. It makes a direction easier to see; it does not explain what caused it.
- Product fact
Basic reads a rolling 30-day window of your logs. Nothing is deleted, progress photos are not limited to 30 days, and your total change since you started is calculated from your full record.
The limits. A trend describes the direction of your readings. It cannot tell you whether a change was fat, and it is not a judgment about what weight is right for you.
Last reviewed: . This is the date the claims and sources on this page were checked, not a medical approval. Every source Loopa cites
FAQ
Questions about weight maintenance in Loopa
Answered against the product as it works today.
How often do I need to weigh?
There is no required schedule. The trend line needs at least three weigh-ins across seven days before it draws, and more frequent readings make it steadier. Some people weigh daily, others a few times a week.
Do I have to keep logging food forever?
No. Loopa works with whatever you log. Many people keep weighing in and log food only when the trend starts to drift or something changes. Nothing is locked or reset when you log less.
What if my weight moves up for a week?
A week of higher readings is often water, glycogen or food in transit rather than fat. Keep logging your weight, and look at where the trend sits over the following weeks before changing anything.
How does Loopa define a trend?
It is an exponentially weighted moving average of your weigh-ins with a smoothing factor of 0.10, which gives each reading a half-life of about 6.6 days. It needs at least three weigh-ins across seven days, and it tells you what is missing instead of guessing.
Can I maintain using Basic?
Yes. Weight logging with a 30-day trend, food and macro logging, water, activity you log yourself, vitals, progress photos, widgets and reminders are all in Basic, with no ads.
What happens to my older history on Basic?
Nothing is deleted. Basic reads a rolling 30-day window of your logs, and if you subscribe later the whole record is readable again. Progress photos are not limited to 30 days, and your total change since you started is calculated from your full record.
Can Loopa tell whether regain is fat?
No. A scale reading and a trend cannot separate fat from water or lean tissue. Body measurements on Premium and progress photos in Basic add context, but none of them identifies what changed.
What if my maintenance target changes?
Update your weight, activity level or goal in settings and the target is recalculated, or type your own daily calorie target. Either way it is an estimate you adjust from the trend.
How does maintenance work after GLP-1 or bariatric treatment?
Follow the plan from your prescriber or bariatric team; this page does not give medication or surgery instructions. Loopa can record what you track: weight and food in Basic, and GLP-1 or bariatric protocol tracking on Premium, with a clinician share report for appointments.
Keep an eye on the trend, lightly.
Weigh in when it suits you, log food when you want context, and look at the longer trend every few weeks.