KG, LBS....what the heck!

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  • debs6
    debs6 Posts: 232 Member
    Converting between imperial and metric is one of the advantages of being 55 here in Australia. As I child - up to the age of 10, we used the imperial system here as well- then in 1966 we made a full conversion to metric. They started teaching metric probably a year or so earlier- so lucky for me I am really comfortable with either imperial or metric. As others have said, it is not complex and once the the concept of the two systems is clear in you head - the conversions are easy. I think other posters are correct in saying that there are not too many places left in the world that use imperial other than the USA and England. The reason that so many people use pounds on this site reflects the large number of members from the USA.

    As many others have said - the conversion is so simple 1K =2.2lbs

    One thing that surprised me in this thread is the use of stones- I would have assumed that like in England, the USA would use stones and ounces etc. One of the posts implied that this isn't the case. Can someone please comment on and clarify this- purely out of curousity
  • Thomasm198
    Thomasm198 Posts: 3,189 Member
    I'm going to start announcing weight loss in milligrammes in future.

    "X has lost 453,592mg since his last weigh in. He has lost 21,133,210mg so far". (It sounds a lot more than X has lost 1 lb since his last weigh in. He has lost 51 lb's so far) :laugh:
  • nosugarcoating
    nosugarcoating Posts: 194 Member
    One thing that surprised me in this thread is the use of stones- I would have assumed that like in England, the USA would use stones and ounces etc. One of the posts implied that this isn't the case. Can someone please comment on and clarify this- purely out of curousity

    They use ounces but not stones.
  • Nikki582
    Nikki582 Posts: 561 Member
    Being Australian I guess I like being 73 kgs rather than 160 pounds lol ;)
    Yes, but I'd rather say I've lost 8lb than 4kg :p
  • nosugarcoating
    nosugarcoating Posts: 194 Member
    That's a shame because 4kg is more than 8lbs. :p
  • TrillianJones
    TrillianJones Posts: 14 Member
    Even though I'm in the UK and we tend to use stone (which is nice as it's a good 'about' measurement - not too precise!), I record my weight in kg as I have less of an emotional relationship with it - I'm not yearning to get to such-and-such stone, I just see the numbers go down.

    It's really confusing here in the UK - we're taught everything in school in the metric system, but we still use miles on all our road signs (but learn stopping distances in metres when learning to drive), weigh ourselves in stone and drink beer in pints. Go figure :-\
  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 48,988 Member
    I honestly wish we were raised on the metric system. It's much easier to convert by powers of 10 then to do all the English conversions. How many ounces in a pound? 16. How many ounces in a cup? 8.
    It's much easier to convert metric.
  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 48,988 Member
    Even though I'm in the UK and we tend to use stone (which is nice as it's a good 'about' measurement - not too precise!), I record my weight in kg as I have less of an emotional relationship with it - I'm not yearning to get to such-and-such stone, I just see the numbers go down.

    It's really confusing here in the UK - we're taught everything in school in the metric system, but we still use miles on all our road signs (but learn stopping distances in metres when learning to drive), weigh ourselves in stone and drink beer in pints. Go figure :-\
    Damn kings back in the day used there body parts as measurements!
  • jfinnivan
    jfinnivan Posts: 360 Member
    For the extremely lazy, you can use google to search for this: " 5 lbs to kg" and it will give you the number. Don't be afraid of the maths!
  • chrisdavey
    chrisdavey Posts: 9,834 Member
    What intrigued me was the mass use of grams for macros by americans. I didn't think you guys knew anything abour them: p

    At least we all use the same for bf% :)
  • nothingisred
    nothingisred Posts: 292
    One thing that surprised me in this thread is the use of stones- I would have assumed that like in England, the USA would use stones and ounces etc. One of the posts implied that this isn't the case. Can someone please comment on and clarify this- purely out of curousity

    They use ounces but not stones.

    Also in England we don't use ounces anymore, we use grams when it comes to small measurements like for food. Yet we use lbs and stones for weight. Miles for driving but metres for running. Pints at the pub and for milk, yet ml for all other liquids, except for petrol which is gallons. Honestly you can't win here.

    Cups confuse the hell out of me! Everything else I just type into google X = X ? and it'll automatically convert for you, no need to find charts or websites.
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