Ponderable Thoughts
#17
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Good point Ms Simpson. I'm sure I'm not the only lady who won't get on the bathroom scales until she's completely emptied her bladder and had a big poo. And then gets on and off them several times, leaning in various directions before taking the lowest weight reading as gospel.
Oh, me too. I have electronic ones. Australian bathroom floors are pants for scales, cos the floors slope towards the drain. It can make for very interesting results (and a handy excuse if all the above fails to result in a loss)
When I go for my quarterly diabetes check ups, I have to be weighed. The nurse has one of those giant, very accurate contraptions, where she moves the weight along a big slider thing.
Gruesome thing it is.
I much prefer the scales in the doctor's office, which he drags out from under the examining table, plonks on a big board and put my weight at around 4 kilos lighter than I am at home, in the morning, naked. Marvellous scales!
Oh, me too. I have electronic ones. Australian bathroom floors are pants for scales, cos the floors slope towards the drain. It can make for very interesting results (and a handy excuse if all the above fails to result in a loss)
When I go for my quarterly diabetes check ups, I have to be weighed. The nurse has one of those giant, very accurate contraptions, where she moves the weight along a big slider thing.
Gruesome thing it is.
I much prefer the scales in the doctor's office, which he drags out from under the examining table, plonks on a big board and put my weight at around 4 kilos lighter than I am at home, in the morning, naked. Marvellous scales!
#18
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Hmm, thanks Garry. Does that work with a digital scale too, you think?
#19
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It's a digital one... it measures water and gives you body fat percentage, but only of your lower body as it runs a fairly low current up through your legs... and of course, that doesn't give you the whole picture.
Hmm, thanks Garry. Does that work with a digital scale too, you think?
Hmm, thanks Garry. Does that work with a digital scale too, you think?
I have experimented with mine, just for your information. If I weigh myself with one leg in the air, held rigid and outright, it doesn't give the same figure as when I weigh myself with two feet on the scales.
This might have been because I had to hold onto the sink to keep my balance
#21
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That's the sort of one I have. So obviously, I only ever use it for normal weighing (it's a bit like the washing machine - 27 programmes and I use 3 of them)
I have experimented with mine, just for your information. If I weigh myself with one leg in the air, held rigid and outright, it doesn't give the same figure as when I weigh myself with two feet on the scales.
I have experimented with mine, just for your information. If I weigh myself with one leg in the air, held rigid and outright, it doesn't give the same figure as when I weigh myself with two feet on the scales.
This might have been because I had to hold onto the sink to keep my balance
#22
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#23
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What's wrong with wanting to get a fix on just how much weight you've lost? It's empowering and encouraging.
I lost 5kg before Christmas, and now I'm on the next 5kg.
I lost 5kg before Christmas, and now I'm on the next 5kg.
#25
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Toughts are not "thoughts" unless they are thoughtfully and ponderably "ponderable".
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Ponder this:
when rolling out dough for a treacle tart base - see a thread somewhere in this forum discussing pommie puddings (and where you can or cannot buy them) - use a proper rolling pin, not the one which is designed to roll out your children's playdough
My wife pointed out the error!
when rolling out dough for a treacle tart base - see a thread somewhere in this forum discussing pommie puddings (and where you can or cannot buy them) - use a proper rolling pin, not the one which is designed to roll out your children's playdough
My wife pointed out the error!