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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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. :-)