Nina's Blog - Sunday 7th April 2024

Sunday 7th April 2024, 11:30

Had to weigh a parcel just now that was too big to fit on my kitchen scales. So I stepped on my bathroom scales with and without the parcel to calculate the weight.

Unfortunately I now weigh 73.0 kg. On 6th March my weight was 71.7 kg so I've put on 1.3 kg in almost exactly a month :-(
I thought I was being moderately frugal too. So now my BMI is 25.2, just inside the NHS overweight category.

It seems a lot of weight gain for one month, did I misread the scales before, was the battery low? Anyway, 73 kg is too much, time to cut down portions again, no more adding a cinnamon bun to my IKEA breakfast.

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ninalanyon · 61-69, T

Sunday 7th April 2024, 22:40

I read somewhere that teenage boys were developing enlarged breasts and that the cause was tracked down to body lotions and such that contain lavender oil or tea tree oil.

So I've bought a little bottle of lavender oil and diluted it with baby oil which I will rub on. I don't really believe it will work, it appears that the effect was noticed in pre-pubertal development after all and I'm rather a long way past that.

But I like the smell and if it does work it will be a nice side effect.

Found the article: https://www.endocrine.org/news-and-advocacy/news-room/2018/chemicals-in-lavender-and-tea-tree-oil-appear-to-be-hormone-disruptors

ArishMell · 70-79, M

I think I've done that, and I know people sometimes weigh pets in the same way, but could you not have simply put the parcel alone on the scales?

I no longer do it monthly as I started, but do intermittently record the date and my weight in pencil on the white-painted inside of the bathroom-cabinet door. First entry August 2017, most recent two weeks ago. It's quite stable too - averaging around nine stone.

(Kilogrammes are for science, engineering and buying spuds!)

Somewhere i have a BMI calculator and tape-measure. Must try to find it but I expect it's calibrated in those wretched rag-trade centimetres that UK schools insist on teaching. It should be in mm.

ninalanyon · 61-69, T

@ArishMell The bathroom scales don't seem to like weighing anything less than about five kilos. The kitchen scales are too small even though they read up to 5 kg in g increments; with the parcel on them I would not be able to read the display

I use the NHS BMI calculator: https://www.nhs.uk/health-assessment-tools/calculate-your-body-mass-index/calculate-bmi-for-adults.

It is better than some because it adjusts the thresholds for what it calls healthy weight, overweight, etc., according to the answers one gives regarding ethnicity. It uses cm too. :-)

robertsnj · 56-60, M

Nina, like your blogs, but quick question, where else do you post this blog? What is your blog-home?

ninalanyon · 61-69, T

@robertsnj Thank you, I'm glad you like it. This is my blog home, I don't post it anywhere else. There would not really be any point in posting it elsewhere because then the people who I converse with would have to go to it and the SW community would not be there. It might ultimately get a wider audience I suppose but most likely it would not get many hits at all.

I did have a blog on Blogger where I tried to do much the same as I do here but no one ever commented on it so I gave it up.

The downside of doing it here is that SW has no publicly available API so there is no way to create a blog offline and then upload it. I did think of creating something using browser automation but it would be too much work. Instead I create the posts online and use the Webscrapbook Firefox extension to save the pages.

Nina xx

robertsnj · 56-60, M

@ninalanyon Nice to meet you.

Norway is a big appeal of it. I would never see what you show in any other circumstance. You are a great writer and double impressive that is in a secondary langauge.

I would be interested in what the ladies on here think of your fashion sense. i am totally fashion blind and fashion stupid. I was telling another cross dresser on here that if my socks match that is a good day.

The pastries sound unbelievable over there. I am getting the vibe that stuff would be hard to find in the USA but we got a great distrubtion chain for coffee. Being near Mexico and Central / South America helps.

ninalanyon · 61-69, T

@robertsnj I have a suspicion that you haven't read the About on my profile.

:-)

You might revise your opinion of my writing, I'm English but I emigrated to Norway in January 1986, more than half a lifetime ago.

As for pastries, Norway doesn't really do pastry except for Danish pastries which are called wienerbrød (literally Viennese bread) here because they come from Vienna not Denmark. Sweden does a little more. It's really France and the UK that do pastry

What Norway has is quite a few cakes and cake like recipes and biscuits that are hard to find outside Scandinavia.

I'd be interested in what anyone has to say about my fashion sense too (please be gentle). But is there really any such thing as fashion any more? I do spend some time choosing what to wear but I'm more interested in things being roughly coordinated than in following any trends. As you might have noticed I like to show off my legs; some people have been kind enough to compliment me on them so I'm showing them off while I have the chance before they get all wrinkly with age!

Nina xx

turbineman40 · 80-89, M

I just cut down on the size of the portions plus cut out the sweets. Works for me

ninalanyon · 61-69, T

@turbineman40 Actually I think I over-reacted. I normally weigh myself naked but today i was just weighing the parcel so I should probably deduct half a kilo to account for my clothes.

But yes, i need to cut down just a little.

ArishMell · 70-79, M

@ninalanyon That reminds of a time when I weighed a complete set of damp outdoor-pursuits clothing and gear.

I had a shock. A stone (31kg).

And there were I thinking the hills were getting steeper or gravity stronger!

ninalanyon · 61-69, T

@ArishMell I think you multiplied instead of dividing. 1 stone = 14 lb (avoirdupois) = 6.35 kg
:-)

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