The unreal weight

basant125

Hi how to know the real weight from the unreal weight my weight is 73 but this appears only for few days in the whole month but in the remaining days it appears 74 I want to know how to differentiate between the real weight from the unreal one thank u too much

JeromeBarry1

Whether in stone or lb it's difficult to imagine anyone being alive at that weight. How old are you?

malibu927

JeromeBarry1 wrote: »

Whether in stone or lb it's difficult to imagine anyone being alive at that weight. How old are you?

Kilograms?

OP, you don't have a "real" weight, as it fluctuates 24/7.

livingleanlivingclean

JeromeBarry1 wrote: »

Whether in stone or lb it's difficult to imagine anyone being alive at that weight. How old are you?

You're forgetting kilograms.

OP - your weight is a range, you can not pin point a specific number. Your weight will be influenced by food you've eaten, time of day, hormones, effects of exercise etc. I weigh every day and track on a trending app - this evens out the fluctuations.

stanmann571

As above, daily swings of 1-2% of your BW are entirely normal due to eating, sleeping, voiding, exercising, hydrating, and other factors like sodium and sun exposure.

MegaMooseEsq

Assuming you're asking which part of your weight is fat/bone/muscle/etc, the only way to know for sure is an autopsy, but I wouldn't recommend that. So long as you're alive and well, your weight is going to swing around a range all the time.

kshama2001

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AnvilHead wrote: »

JeromeBarry1 wrote: »

Whether in stone or lb it's difficult to imagine anyone being alive at that weight. How old are you?

You do realize there's this thing called the "metric system", which is used in 95% of the world, right? And that measures in that system are in kilograms rather than pounds?

Outside of the U.S., the only other countries still using Imperial measurements are Liberia and Myanmar.

I was told in grade school in the 1970s that the US was going to be completely metric within 10 years and either learn it or become obsolete. 40 years later, metric measurement use is so rare in my day to day life in the US that I honestly can't recall a time besides running (5k, 10k), using a socket set, and occasionally measuring food on MFP where knowing what the metric equivalent to an Imperial measurement would have made any difference in my life whatsoever.

That has absolutely no relevance to the fact that 95% of the world deals in metric...

What is irrelevant is doing something that others do for the sake of doing something that others do.

Nobody said you have to do it, it's about realising that the vast majority of the world uses metric, not everyone on MFP is from the US, and therefore not automatically assuming that a poster is using the imperial system for weight.

Well, this IS a US site, for which there are rules such as writing in English, etc.

Before I went to a Spanish speaking country, I learned enough Spanish to get by. If I were participating on a non-US forum, I'd brush up on the conventions for that country.

But then, I'm the sort of person who reads the stickies too.

It's a US based international site. Considering it specifically gives the option to track in metric, the idea that posters on the forum should convert to imperial is ludicrous.

Look, if someone wants help, it behooves them to ask for it in such a way that will be understood. If they pose their question in such a way that the majority of the potential helpers don't understand them, they're not going to get as good help as if they did frame the question in such a way that effective communication occurred.

Many of my coworkers are ESL and I am sympathetic to that at work and on forums. When I'm answering a question about weight that was framed in stones, I'll convert it and say something along the lines of "in case anyone else was wondering."

Along these lines, I also get really irritated when my native English coworkers use text-speak abbreviations when typing to our ESL freelancers.

ps - when I lived in Okinawa, I made the effort to learn how to be polite in Japanese, and to convert yen per gram to dollars per pound.

Nony_Mouse

Y'know, I usually do convert from kilojoules to calories and from kg to lbs on the forums, but I think I'm going to stop. If people want to think I have a ludicrously high TDEE of 9000-10,000 calories or that I only weigh 60 lbs, that's on them.

It's pretty damn obvious when people are using metric as opposed to imperial, and pretty damn obnoxious to say it's not easily understood.

Nony_Mouse

BTW people - 1 calorie is 4.2 kilojoules, 2.2 pounds in one kilogram. Not that *kitten* hard.

zyxst

I see the forums haven't changed.

OT: weight is a range, not the same number every day.

lemurcat12

basant125 wrote: »

Hi how to know the real wight from the unreal wight my wight is 73 but this appears only for few days in the whole month but in the remaining days it appears 74 I want to know how to differentiate between the real wight from the unreal one thank u too much

I believe this was answered, but there's no real weight -- weight fluctuates and will be different day to day or hour to hour. If you weigh regularly (this is why I like to weigh daily or every couple of days) you get familiar with the fluctuations and it won't bother you, and it's why many of us like to have goal weight RANGES and not a specific number only.

Make sense?

Nova

Hey all, please respond to the OP here ^

If you'd like to debate about the metric and imperial systems, please go here.

sksk1026

Your weight will fluctuate naturally. A fluctuation of 1 kg isn't much. In a month, that would show that your weight is pretty stable. Why are you asking? (I'm imagining you're a jockey or a wrestler and every gram counts in your weight class?) ☺

paperpudding

I doubt OP is a jockey at 73 kg.

Depending on his/her height, 73 kg could be easily be a healthy weight.

It is about where i started and that was 10kg overweight for me but I am female, 163 cm tall (bit over 5ft 3)

I am presuming from 'a few days in the month' that OP is female and this is fluctuations with monthly cycle - quite normal OP and 1kg is not large fluctuation.
I am in maitenance and weigh 62 kg now and i weigh myself weekly - fluctuation of around 1 kg between weigh ins is quite common for me