During 1.5 years of my weight loss and maintenance, if you count recorded daily weight fluctuations, I
Gained: 158 lbs Lost: 208.1 lbs Total weight change: 366.1
In 10.5 months of 2004 alone, I:
Gained: 122.6 Lost: 127.9 Total: 250.5
If anything, these numbers understate the amounts since I did not record my weight absolutely every day.
If I maintain my weight in this fashion for 20 years, I will have:
Gained: 2788 lbs Lost: same amount obviously Total: 5576 lbs
5576 lbs is not far from the curb weight of my pickup truck.
So, Oprah's "struggle with weight" may or may not be funny, but we all gain and lose a lot of weight. Even successful dieters, who are not struggling with large weight regains, still post large cumulative gains and losses. Small numbers do add up.
it also depends how often you weight yourself - if you add in those daily fluctuations as well, that could add up to the weight of a jumbo 747...
|| Ignoramus31272 wrote: || ||| [xposted to alt.support.diet.low-carb due to the original post ||| having ||| been posted there also] ||| ||| On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 09:17:19 -0600, rosie readandpost ||| <[email hidden]> wrote: ||| |||| http://www.theonion.com/news/index.php?issue=4046 ||| ||| ||| During 1.5 years of my weight loss and maintenance, if you count ||| recorded daily weight fluctuations, I ||| ||| Gained: 158 lbs ||| Lost: 208.1 lbs ||| Total weight change: 366.1 ||| ||| In 10.5 months of 2004 alone, I: ||| ||| Gained: 122.6 ||| Lost: 127.9 ||| Total: 250.5 ||| ||| If anything, these numbers understate the amounts since I did not ||| record my weight absolutely every day. ||| ||| If I maintain my weight in this fashion for 20 years, I will have: ||| ||| Gained: 2788 lbs ||| Lost: same amount obviously ||| Total: 5576 lbs ||| ||| 5576 lbs is not far from the curb weight of my pickup truck. ||| ||| So, Oprah's "struggle with weight" may or may not be funny, but we ||| all ||| gain and lose a lot of weight. Even successful dieters, who are not ||| struggling with large weight regains, still post large cumulative ||| gains and losses. Small numbers do add up.
Talk about silly, useless stats. If you bother to measure every second, or every half second, or over a infinitely small interval, I'm certain you can drive that Total number up to infinity.
|| Ignoramus31272 wrote: || ||| [xposted to alt.support.diet.low-carb due to the original post ||| having ||| been posted there also] ||| ||| On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 09:17:19 -0600, rosie readandpost ||| <[email hidden]> wrote: ||| |||| http://www.theonion.com/news/index.php?issue=4046 ||| ||| ||| During 1.5 years of my weight loss and maintenance, if you count ||| recorded daily weight fluctuations, I ||| ||| Gained: 158 lbs ||| Lost: 208.1 lbs ||| Total weight change: 366.1 ||| ||| In 10.5 months of 2004 alone, I: ||| ||| Gained: 122.6 ||| Lost: 127.9 ||| Total: 250.5 ||| ||| If anything, these numbers understate the amounts since I did not ||| record my weight absolutely every day. ||| ||| If I maintain my weight in this fashion for 20 years, I will have: ||| ||| Gained: 2788 lbs ||| Lost: same amount obviously ||| Total: 5576 lbs ||| ||| 5576 lbs is not far from the curb weight of my pickup truck. ||| ||| So, Oprah's "struggle with weight" may or may not be funny, but we ||| all ||| gain and lose a lot of weight. Even successful dieters, who are not ||| struggling with large weight regains, still post large cumulative ||| gains and losses. Small numbers do add up.
Talk about silly, useless stats. If you bother to measure every second, or every half second, or over a infinitely small interval, I'm certain you can drive that Total number up to infinity.
Hah! Now that's a maths project JC can assign to his students!!
