What do you use - pounds, kilos or stones.

ferrytrip
ferrytrip Posts: 497 Member
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I grew up in Ireland and weighed myself in Stones.
They tried to teach my generation the metric system and it didn't quite take for body weight or height.
Now I live in the U.S. and weigh myself in pounds.
What system to you use and why?
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  • seal57
    seal57 Posts: 1,259 Member
    kilos cause us Aussies use metric....
  • 2Bgoddess
    2Bgoddess Posts: 1,096 Member
    Pounds, cuz us canadians are supposed to use metric....but mostly we do that for speeds and distance...officially metric system, unofficially, imperial measure.
  • its_rierie
    its_rierie Posts: 44 Member
    Kilos. Australians use the metric system. We don't know what the &*#! a quarter pound is... :smokin:
  • OnionMomma
    OnionMomma Posts: 938 Member
    IN the US, so I use pounds.

    I did however, learn to use kilos and CC's for my son's medical needs. Oh and ML's. I can measure and almost mutiply it out in my head to figure out what it is in the US system.

    ETA: a CC and an ML measurement are the same....doh!! LOL
  • Tat2dDom624
    Tat2dDom624 Posts: 1,226 Member
    Pounds
  • coliema
    coliema Posts: 7,646 Member
    Pounds because I live in the US.
  • Ayla70
    Ayla70 Posts: 284 Member
    kilos cause us Aussies use metric....

    ^^ This...
  • sjschewlakow
    sjschewlakow Posts: 120 Member
    lbs. because I live in the USofA
  • alzaman5925
    alzaman5925 Posts: 64 Member
    Pounds... but pounds and stones are kind of the same aren't they??
  • tas3980
    tas3980 Posts: 93 Member
    I use kg's (as I am Aussie) but familiarised with pounds/stones from being on here and having expat friends :)

    @alzaman5925 - there are approx 14 pounds to a stone.

    For the Aussie's here, there are approx 7 kgs to a stone and 1 kg is 2.2 pounds :)
  • BillyPinky
    BillyPinky Posts: 104 Member
    I use pounds on here because I have too but I use stones normally . Using pounds feel unnatural to me.
  • aholly70
    aholly70 Posts: 577 Member
    pounds
  • bathsheba_c
    bathsheba_c Posts: 1,873 Member
    Both pounds and kilos. My scale is in kilos because I live in Israel, but I grew up in the US, so I'm used to thinking in pounds.

    I've gotten pretty good at converting weights (even ounces and grams), but I am terrible at height and small variations of temperature.
  • shelleycolton
    shelleycolton Posts: 400 Member
    Pounds here but stones at home, got a great app that switches the measurements to each its pretty cool
  • EmmaM2211
    EmmaM2211 Posts: 536 Member
    I use pounds on here because I have too but I use stones normally . Using pounds feel unnatural to me.

    Same here!

    1stone = 14lbs
    If anyone asks how much I've lost I say a stone and a half - if I said 22lbs they be sooo confused lol xx
  • donna_glasgow
    donna_glasgow Posts: 869 Member
    stones, but convert to pounds for this site
  • Selma10001984
    Selma10001984 Posts: 206 Member
    KG! and the metric system and temperatures in Celcius like a true European, but Im gradually getting more and more used to the pound system :)
  • annielaura64
    annielaura64 Posts: 5
    Pounds and Stones :3
    UK
  • Methinksabout
    Methinksabout Posts: 153
    I grew up with Kilos, so that is what my heart is working with.. On here I am working with pounds as that is just more rewarding when it comes to seeing the numbers drop - and I love the word "Onederland"! In theorie I know that 14lbs is a stone but that so does not mean anything to me really, so when ppl here in London ask me how much I want to lose, I always have to re-calculate from my beloved Kilos back into pounds and THEN into stones - quite stressful really..

    No good with converting anything else really, have no concept of Fahrenheit, gallons or ounzes, a yard still equals a meter to me and as long as I can get away with thinking about a mile being roughly 1,5km I am fine.. :-)

    I do mix up left and right though XD
  • mariagabriella
    mariagabriella Posts: 267 Member
    kilos cause us Aussies use metric....

    this!
  • mariagabriella
    mariagabriella Posts: 267 Member
    I use kg's (as I am Aussie) but familiarised with pounds/stones from being on here and having expat friends :)

    @alzaman5925 - there are approx 14 pounds to a stone.

    For the Aussie's here, there are approx 7 kgs to a stone and 1 kg is 2.2 pounds :)

    I think 1 stone = 6.3kg
  • OnionMomma
    OnionMomma Posts: 938 Member
    I use kg's (as I am Aussie) but familiarised with pounds/stones from being on here and having expat friends :)

    @alzaman5925 - there are approx 14 pounds to a stone.

    For the Aussie's here, there are approx 7 kgs to a stone and 1 kg is 2.2 pounds :)

    I think 1 stone = 6.3kg

    Yep 1 KG is 2.2 lbs. Can't tell you the number of times I multplied it out to get my son's weight. As even though in the US we are on pounds, the children's hospital here is all metric. I think most hospitals are.
  • taylor5877
    taylor5877 Posts: 1,792 Member
    I have to deal everyday with volumes in gallons, concentrations in grams and milligrams per liter and flow rates in gallons.

    The world would be so much simpler if we as Americans could adopt the metric system.

    The math that everyone hates would be so much easier.
  • Natx83
    Natx83 Posts: 1,298 Member
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  • angelraguel
    angelraguel Posts: 142 Member
    ibs and stones. the reason why I use ibs is because they are just about small enough to lose in a week where as for a kg, it is very hard to lose a kg in a week and I would feel like I havent achieved anything! so has to be ibs lol
  • Kebabmeatchips
    Kebabmeatchips Posts: 32 Member
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    lol so true. Still don't understand why Americans use month/day/year when rest of world has been using day/month/year for like forever.

    In regards to weight, use Stones, but now starting to embrace my European thinking of getting used to Kilos as well now.
  • IamSheaMc
    IamSheaMc Posts: 1,273 Member
    funny-US-vs-world-metric-system-date.jpg

    hahaha Now I live in the States and I feel weird writing 8/2/2012 ugh for me 2/8/2012 flows better and makes more sense I can't remember to write it their way so I just write Aug 2 2012 lol

    They also drive on the opposite side than what i'm use to but i'll deal lol
  • stomachflu
    stomachflu Posts: 134 Member
    I do pounds because of living in the US. The hubby (Brit) does too but when I lost 14 pounds (a stone) he told me I lost Mick Jagger *laff*
  • driventochange
    driventochange Posts: 13 Member
    I use stones (UK user). Miss them terribly here and tired of converting into hundreds of pounds - please add the option for us Brits!
  • caraiselite
    caraiselite Posts: 2,631 Member
    pounds cuz 'merica is so retarded.

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