OK so I have a little problem here. As leo suggested in his kind hearted and playful mocking of our little endeavor, purely measuring body weight to the degree of accuracy we're talking about is, to use the parlance of his people, a might bit silly. We've all heard people say that your body weight "cycles" or "fluctuates" by "as much as 5 pounds" or "alot". Well, at least I've heard all that mumbo-jumbo, and mostly I lol'ed cause really isn't that just fat chics trying to explain why they can't lose weight? "I'm fluctuating!" they say. We all know what Tommy Angelo has to say about that....Anyway, the following are true facts:
1. Yesterday morning I drove to Target and bought the scale. I weighed myself and it said I weighed 178.6 pounds. I repeated the weighing and got the exact same result (the scale reports numbers to the even tenths of pounds....so 178.5 was not possible, but 178.4 or 178.8 was). Weighing was done in boxers, as were all subsequent ones.
2. I ate breakfast and weighed myself again. The reading was 180.2. Again I repeated it, and again I got the exact same result. 1.8 pounds of cereal, milk, and water seemed about right to me.
3. Later on that day I weighed myself again and I was up to 181.4 pounds. Again I repeated it, and this time it was off. I got 181.2. I drink a lot of stuff throughout the day. Water, diet coke, water, OJ, diet coke, repeat.
4. My gf weighed herself on the scale that night and got a number within 1 pound of what she expected from her scale at work (it actually reported she had lost about 4 pounds from that number, but at work she has to wear shoes, jeans, a teeshirt, and hoodie...weighing in in her underwear, while fine at home, would be decidedly uncouth).
5. So in short, I believe the scale to be very, very accurate.
6. That night before bed I weighed in at 179.8. I did not repeat it.
7. This morning when I woke up, I weighed in at 177.8. I did not repeat it, but basically lost 2 pounds throughout the night.
8. 13 hours later, after eating a small breakfast, small lunch, and small dinner with two beers as one last celebration before I get serious business about this, I weighed in at 184.0 pounds
I am still committed to entering this competition and matching avoid's 5 fun tickets, but I am basically asking him here on faith to tell me where in the spectrum of my 177 to 184 pound 13 hour period his 205 falls before committing to the full 10% loss plan.
In short, we're all fluct.
Last edited by BigBadBabar; 05-23-2010 at 01:01 AM.