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Same weight but slightly taller (fractions under 6 foot). I hadn't weighed myself in ages and I'm pretty sure last time I did I was closer to 15st so happy with that. I also held the scales in my hands to see how much weight I cold squeeze with my hands. Was hoping to at least get as much as I weighed but I maxed out at 12st.Ben Wilson wrote: ↑Mon Mar 19, 2018 10:14 pm 13st 8lb, quite a bit overweight for my height (5' 10").
But also wonderful as you don't know or probably care if you are overweight/underweight
I don't think it's that weird. I weigh myself quite frequently these days because I've got the London marathon coming up and I want to be 9 stone on 22nd April. I weighed myself this morning and was something like 9 stone 4 pounds (about 59 kg). I think I'll lose some of that quite easily though. I tend to weigh more in the winter months. I'm about 5 feet 8 inches as well, if that makes a difference (around 1.73 metres).
How tall are you?
About 6"1Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Tue Mar 20, 2018 9:54 amI don't think it's that weird. I weigh myself quite frequently these days because I've got the London marathon coming up and I want to be 9 stone on 22nd April. I weighed myself this morning and was something like 9 stone 4 pounds (about 59 kg). I think I'll lose some of that quite easily though. I tend to weigh more in the winter months. I'm about 5 feet 8 inches as well, if that makes a difference (around 1.73 metres).
How tall are you?
I'm denser than you though, I'm only 5 foot 6Mark Deeks wrote: ↑Tue Mar 20, 2018 7:09 pm Looks like I'm the unbeaten champion, unless someone can top it. Bet you can't.
1. Weighing things onMark Deeks wrote: ↑Tue Mar 20, 2018 9:36 pm How can a scale be multipurose, anyway? How many puroses could there possibly be?
The placement of that colon is kinda getting to me tooJimBentley wrote: ↑Tue Mar 20, 2018 8:22 pm I'm somewhere between 11 stone (70kg) and 11 stone 7 pounds (73kg), depending on how much I've been eating and drinking. I've been down to about 9 stone at one point (but I did look a bit skeletal and unwell at that point) and up to about 13 stone (when I was really drinking a lot). I think I'm about 5 foot 10 so I guess I'm in the normal range.
However, I mainly wanted to post a picture of my scales. I think it's quite impressive to get two errors into four words. Despite that, they're pretty damn accurate (or at least they agree with all the other scales I've been on).
Aren't they just buttons?Mark Deeks wrote: ↑Tue Mar 20, 2018 9:46 pm Actually, at the top there, can I see that it's got two USB ports? Maybe it truly is multipurose after all.
They are, the one on the left toggles between kgs and lbs and the one on the right is a tare (reset to zero) button. Honestly, as shoddy cheap (about £3 including delivery if I remember right) electrnic items go, they're not bad at all when the batteries don't fall out.Conor wrote: ↑Tue Mar 20, 2018 10:19 pmAren't they just buttons?Mark Deeks wrote: ↑Tue Mar 20, 2018 9:46 pm Actually, at the top there, can I see that it's got two USB ports? Maybe it truly is multipurose after all.
Cue for a spin-off thread?
Your weight over any 24 hour period fluctuates mainly because of water regulation. Overall more weight is lost through pissing (and normal perspiration) than by taking a big shit. Fluids are obvious, but most food has a high water content too, which is mainly excreted in the urine. You should weigh the least first thing in the morning (after having a piss, of course), because you haven't eaten or drank anything for eight (or however many) hours and the body has processed all the stuff that you ate the previous day. Something like that, anyway.Matt Morrison wrote: ↑Wed Mar 21, 2018 2:23 pmI did just have a big lunch of loads of soup and some bread, so I'll let you know what difference it makes later on when I've had a poo. If anybody else wants to update their weights after poos, that'd be cool.
Also when do you weigh the least, is it first thing in the morning? I know this is supposed to be when you're tallest as well so I might just be extending that fact with some fake news.
Some people are shit-before-breakfasters so they are at a massive advantage when it comes to making themselves look light, as they can have a piss and a shit before weighing themselves first thing in the morning.JimBentley wrote: ↑Wed Mar 21, 2018 4:18 pmYour weight over any 24 hour period fluctuates mainly because of water regulation. Overall more weight is lost through pissing (and normal perspiration) than by taking a big shit. Fluids are obvious, but most food has a high water content too, which is mainly excreted in the urine. You should weigh the least first thing in the morning (after having a piss, of course), because you haven't eaten or drank anything for eight (or however many) hours and the body has processed all the stuff that you ate the previous day. Something like that, anyway.Matt Morrison wrote: ↑Wed Mar 21, 2018 2:23 pmI did just have a big lunch of loads of soup and some bread, so I'll let you know what difference it makes later on when I've had a poo. If anybody else wants to update their weights after poos, that'd be cool.
Also when do you weigh the least, is it first thing in the morning? I know this is supposed to be when you're tallest as well so I might just be extending that fact with some fake news.
Cold squeezing was Mark James originally.Matt Morrison wrote: ↑Wed Mar 21, 2018 2:19 pm I haven't been on C4C for a while. When I scrolled through this thread, I thought three things:
- USB ports on the scales
- "cold squeezing" is a great phrase
- is that why you didn't come to Colin this year?
Two points to Gevin and one to Mark.
Sorry, you need to have four feet to use your scales? Not for humans then.Matt Morrison wrote: ↑Wed Mar 21, 2018 4:24 pm By the way I had a go at cold pressing and it actually took me ages to even work out how to make it register on the scale, I was just squeezing the main plate on top and would have looked an absolute fool. Turns out the weight on my scales is measured through four feet, so cold pressing is an absolute impossibility unless I grow two more hands. I got to around 28kg or something squeezing two of them but quickly gave up once I realised it was pretty futile.
I'm really heavy without being really fat, it's weird.Matt Morrison wrote: ↑Wed Mar 21, 2018 2:24 pm You are still bigger than me Mark? But you are a couple of inches taller. And also I have no muscle whatsoever and a tiny willy so I'm more pure fat.
Presumably when you pick up your scales and squeeze them as hard as you can and see how much weight you can squeeze.
If you're allowed to count your lightest weight as your weight, then I can actually claim 9 stone. I went on a 24-mile marathon training run today and was 9 stone afterwards, and that was actually after drinking quite a bit first. So I would have been even less.JimBentley wrote: ↑Wed Mar 21, 2018 4:18 pmYour weight over any 24 hour period fluctuates mainly because of water regulation. Overall more weight is lost through pissing (and normal perspiration) than by taking a big shit. Fluids are obvious, but most food has a high water content too, which is mainly excreted in the urine. You should weigh the least first thing in the morning (after having a piss, of course), because you haven't eaten or drank anything for eight (or however many) hours and the body has processed all the stuff that you ate the previous day. Something like that, anyway.Matt Morrison wrote: ↑Wed Mar 21, 2018 2:23 pmI did just have a big lunch of loads of soup and some bread, so I'll let you know what difference it makes later on when I've had a poo. If anybody else wants to update their weights after poos, that'd be cool.
Also when do you weigh the least, is it first thing in the morning? I know this is supposed to be when you're tallest as well so I might just be extending that fact with some fake news.
Congratulations, you hit your goal. You're now 0.36R or whatever weird measurement you like to do things in.Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Thu Mar 22, 2018 10:13 pm If you're allowed to count your lightest weight as your weight, then I can actually claim 9 stone. I went on a 24-mile marathon training run today and was 9 stone afterwards, and that was actually after drinking quite a bit first. So I would have been even less.
About 12st 12lb last time I checked.
How meta would it be if it the phrase "cold squeezing" actually ended up in the dictionary as a legitimate phrase and it's origin came from a website whose object is essentially obsessing about what gets to be included in the dictionary? I want to encourage as many people as possible to continue to use the phrase for that definition. In fact I'm kind of disappointed that I haven't seen more people post their results for cold squeezing. Although I will concede that it really only works with mechanical scales and not electronic scales, which seem to be the norm these days. I know we had a hard time sourcing said scales in the first place.Mark James wrote: ↑Wed Mar 21, 2018 7:56 pm I was saying could squeeze not cold squeeze but it seems like a useful phrase and I'll take the credit for accidentally coining it.
Well if 9 stone is 0.36R then it would be 25 stone. You obviously had a big meal since you last checked.
I managed to cold squeeze 7 stone just now. It was very dependent on how I held the scales, so technique is important.Mark James wrote: ↑Fri Mar 23, 2018 2:05 amHow meta would it be if it the phrase "cold squeezing" actually ended up in the dictionary as a legitimate phrase and it's origin came from a website whose object is essentially obsessing about what gets to be included in the dictionary? I want to encourage as many people as possible to continue to use the phrase for that definition. In fact I'm kind of disappointed that I haven't seen more people post their results for cold squeezing. Although I will concede that it really only works with mechanical scales and not electronic scales, which seem to be the norm these days. I know we had a hard time sourcing said scales in the first place.Mark James wrote: ↑Wed Mar 21, 2018 7:56 pm I was saying could squeeze not cold squeeze but it seems like a useful phrase and I'll take the credit for accidentally coining it.
Runningsworth, knowing Gevin. That's all he's interested in, running around and around and around.
Me too.
Only if I've got no clothes on.
I was vaguely curious as to what BMI this would come out as - obviously BMI needs to be taken with a large pinch of salt, which itself would probably negate the positive effects of having a healthy BMI.Tom S wrote: ↑Tue Mar 20, 2018 4:41 pmAbout 6"1Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Tue Mar 20, 2018 9:54 am
I don't think it's that weird. I weigh myself quite frequently these days because I've got the London marathon coming up and I want to be 9 stone on 22nd April. I weighed myself this morning and was something like 9 stone 4 pounds (about 59 kg). I think I'll lose some of that quite easily though. I tend to weigh more in the winter months. I'm about 5 feet 8 inches as well, if that makes a difference (around 1.73 metres).
How tall are you?
Time indeed! Not been eating well at the minute, which could be down to a phobia of eating out in public places... something that I have to do regularlyGavin Chipper wrote: ↑Fri Mar 23, 2018 6:35 pmTom S wrote: ↑Tue Mar 20, 2018 4:41 pmAbout 6"1Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Tue Mar 20, 2018 9:54 am
I don't think it's that weird. I weigh myself quite frequently these days because I've got the London marathon coming up and I want to be 9 stone on 22nd April. I weighed myself this morning and was something like 9 stone 4 pounds (about 59 kg). I think I'll lose some of that quite easily though. I tend to weigh more in the winter months. I'm about 5 feet 8 inches as well, if that makes a difference (around 1.73 metres).
How tall are you?
I was vaguely curious as to what BMI this would come out as - obviously BMI needs to be taken with a large pinch of salt, which itself would probably negate the positive effects of having a healthy BMI.
Anyway, 9 stone 6 is 59.9 kg according to Google. 6"1 is about 1.854m. So 59.9/1.854^2 = about 17.4. I think healthy is supposed to start from 18.5. But we could instead use this formula where you use 1.3*weight/height^2.5. In this case, you come out as 16.6. That's even worse! Time for something to eat.
There's a nice calculator here.
I just tried to do some cold squeezing with my multipurose eletrnic scales and couldn't get beyond a couple of kilograms. They need a hard floor to get them to work at all, so that's not altogether unsurprising. I think Mark's right, you need mechanical scales for real proper cold squeezing action.Mark James wrote: ↑Fri Mar 23, 2018 2:05 am
How meta would it be if it the phrase "cold squeezing" actually ended up in the dictionary as a legitimate phrase and it's origin came from a website whose object is essentially obsessing about what gets to be included in the dictionary? I want to encourage as many people as possible to continue to use the phrase for that definition. In fact I'm kind of disappointed that I haven't seen more people post their results for cold squeezing. Although I will concede that it really only works with mechanical scales and not electronic scales, which seem to be the norm these days. I know we had a hard time sourcing said scales in the first place.
Yes. But now I weigh 10st again, so looking better for next year.