What's new in myBVI: Achievements, Daily Challenges & Photo Journal Evolutions

A before and after image of someone on their weight journey. They can use myBVI to track their progress

Progress is easier to keep when you can see it. 

That's the thinking behind the latest myBVI update, three new features designed to make your body composition journey more visible, more motivating, and a little more rewarding.

Achievements: your milestones, recognised in myBVI

Whether you're working toward a target body fat percentage, building a step habit, or simply showing up consistently, Achievements are there to mark the moment.

Earn badges as you hit your goals and watch your trophy case grow.

It's a small thing, but the science backs it up. 

Research shows that gamification elements such as badges, achievements, and challenges tap into individuals' intrinsic motivation, making health-related tasks more engaging and enjoyable.

A systematic review published in eClinicalMedicine found that gamification provides mechanisms for goal setting and progress tracking that can enhance individuals' sense of accomplishment and self-efficacy, breaking health-related tasks into smaller, achievable steps.

Having your hard work acknowledged, even by an app, matters more than you'd think.

Daily Challenges: habits that stick

The hardest part of any health goal isn't the big changes, it's maintaining the daily ones. 

Daily Challenges give you something small and actionable to focus on each day: movement, hydration, wellness.

Nothing overwhelming. Just a consistent nudge in the right direction, one day at a time.

The evidence for daily tracking and consistent engagement is compelling. Research has shown that individuals who consistently track five or more days a week were more successful in losing and sustaining weight loss over the course of a year. 

A large-scale PLOS ONE study of thousands of digital health tracker users found that users who log food and activity more frequently tend to lose more weight than those who track less, a finding that held both across users and within individuals over time.

Small daily actions, done consistently, are where results are built.

Photo Journal Evolutions: see how far you've come

This is the feature we're most excited about.

Body composition changes happen gradually, so gradually that it can be genuinely difficult to see the difference from one week to the next. 

This is especially true for anyone managing muscle mass alongside GLP-1 medication, where the scale alone is a poor indicator of what's actually changing. 

Photo Journal Evolutions changes that. 

Select any two entries from your Photo Journal and myBVI instantly generates a Before & After body composition comparison. It's yours to keep privately, reflect on, and share if you want to. The real value is simply being able to see your own progress clearly, on your own terms.

The research on visual progress tracking is clear. A randomised controlled study published in Trials evaluated personalised visual body-change imagery as a motivational tool for weight loss in adults, finding it to be a meaningful driver of behavior change.

For anyone on a body recomposition journey,  whether managing muscle mass alongside GLP-1 medication, working through a training programme, or simply focused on long-term health, visual evidence of change reinforces positive behaviours and strengthens commitment to health goals, while also documenting non-scale victories that might otherwise go unacknowledged.

Progress looks different for everyone. Sometimes the most motivating thing isn't a number, it's just seeing it.

Update myBVI now to get all three features, and let us know what you think.

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