Help Converting Lbs to St

emmaclarepower

Just wondering can you help!

I went and bought a new scales which only reads lbs. weighed myself last Thursday and it was 239lbs (17.07)

Today I am 236.4 which is telling me I’m 16.9 which Is a 5lb loss

But when you minus 239 - 236.4 it’s 2.6.... what do I go by!!

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Lietchi

A quick conversion in the first calculator I could find gives me around 16st12 for 236.4lbs...

PAV8888

.07 and .9 are decimal.

You multiply by 14

So .7 is 1lb (0.98)

.9 is about 12.6 lbs

So the confusing conversion comes to 2.4 lbs lost

Your scale is in lbs which are more granular.

Use lbs instead of converting.

For a rough idea remember that each stone is 14 lbs, and the leftovers are the lbs that follow the stone

So 239 is 14*17=238, so 17 stone 1lb

236.4 would be 14*16=224 so 16 stone 12.4lbs

But lbs are not decimal. So .4 lbs is .4 *16 oz, or 6.4oz, so let's call it 6oz

So today you're 16 st 12 lbs 6oz

Fixed oopsies due to not using calculator!!! 🙈

emmaclarepower

Oh god I’m even more confused!

Lietchi wrote: »

A quick conversion in the first calculator I could find gives me around 16st12 for 236.4lbs...

emmaclarepower

Thank you. That makes sense! Any idea why the online converters give a different reading? So confusing!

PAV8888 wrote: »

.07 and .9 are decimal.

You multiply by 14

So .7 is 1lb (0.98)

.9 is about 12.6 lbs

So the confusing conversion comes to 2.4 lbs lost

Your scale is in lbs which are more granular.

Use lbs instead of converting.

For a rough idea remember that each stone is 14 lbs, and the leftovers are the lbs that follow the stone

So 239 is 14*17=238, so 17 stone 1lb

236.4 would be 14*16=224 so 16 stone 12.4lbs

But lbs are not decimal. So .4 lbs is .4 *16 oz, or 6.4oz, so let's call it 6oz

So today you're 16 st 12 lbs 6oz

Fixed oopsies due to not using calculator!!! 🙈

sijomial

Your scales really aren't displaying stones and pounds properly!
It's not you, the scales are rubbish.

If you use stones your weight would be expressed as so many stones and so many pounds but your scales are showing you whole stones and decimal parts (tenths) of stones - hopeless!
(Remember pounds are fourteenths of stones not tenths of pounds.)

239lbs would be normally expressed as 17stone and 1pound ("seventeen stone one" in conversation) but your scales are telling you 17st and 0.07 of a stone.
(Multiply 0.07 by 14 and you will see what's going on.)

Your measurment today of 16.9 isn't saying 16st9lbs as you would reasonably expect - it's actually saying 16st and 0.9 of a stone.

If you are in the UK and prefer stones and pounds I would return the scales and buy a set that display properly. Or keep the scales and use pounds only.

Mine show stones, pounds and then fractions of a pound. (Or I can flip to lbs or to kg.)