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May 27, 2008
This would kill a woman
Yesterday morning I climbed out of bed and stepped up onto the scale. I could tell there was a problem right away as the digital dial shot up to 250 pretty quick before slipping into the little dance it does as it as it tries to sort out exactly where it was going to stop. And that magic number was 250.something — I really didn't pay any attention to the decimal involved.
The reason I didn't pay attention is that two days prior I weighed 242.something and a person just doesn't gain eight pounds that fast.
Still, it was a little disappointing. I'd put over 50 miles on the bicycle in the two days following the morning of the 242 weighing (and had taken the kids on a couple of forced marches) and a person likes to see progress.
As I looked down at the scale I said aloud, "This would kill a woman."
And then thought to myself, that sounds like a good title to a blog post.
I blame the whole thing on George Lucas. Everything bad that happens in the world today can be traced directly to Jar Jar Binks. Wait, that's not it… the boys and I had gone to see Indiana Jones and whatever quest he's on and had gone through a fair amount of popcorn and all of it's salty excellence.
And we'd had a late dinner.
Today, if you're curious, I came in at 242.8
And the boys an I thought Indiana Jones was a darned good time.
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Posted by delmer at May 27, 2008 8:02 PM
Comments
So, wait. You ate 8 pounds worth of popcorn?
Posted by: Avitable at May 27, 2008 10:34 PM
Definitely seeing Indy! Argh, it's killing me I've waited this long.
Posted by: Karl at May 27, 2008 10:40 PM
Wow! What a weight gain/loss! I must correct you however...women can go through than kind of weight gain/loss during their "time of the month"...I used to.
/bowing down to thank God for my hysterectomy...
Posted by: Ginger at May 27, 2008 11:04 PM
Avitable: It was the endless bucket. And you know how it is when the movie's good.
Karl: I'm going to see this one at least one more time. (The local drive in is running it with Iron Man ... though I'll go to the theater.)
Ginger: My biology, as it applies to women is a bit rusty ... I wasn't aware of that. (My geography, as it applies to women, is a bit rusty as well.)
Posted by: delmer at May 28, 2008 12:26 AM
In the words of an overweight friend who faced weekly weigh-ins in the military, "Always best to take a massive before getting on the scale".
Posted by: Bill at May 28, 2008 1:18 AM
Hehheh. Well, I'm glad the scale has started cooperating again. When punching in the coordinates on the elliptical at the gym, I always lie about my weight by about 10 lbs. I don't feel too bad about this, since the machine lies WAY worse about the number of calories I burn in 35 minutes.
Posted by: John at May 28, 2008 4:26 PM
All that salt made you retain water. At least that's what a woman would say. You know, after she died.
Posted by: Finn at May 28, 2008 8:59 PM
When I had gestational diabetes, I gained 12 lbs in 3 weeks. I only gained 18 lbs the whole pregnancy but those 12 were very upsetting. It would kill a woman.
Posted by: Black Belt Mama at May 28, 2008 9:38 PM
":women can go through than kind of weight gain/loss during their 'time of the month'...I used to."
Yeah, I was going to say - you're probably just PMSing... :-0 :-0 :-0
"All that salt made you retain water."
Or retaining water...
:-) :-) :-)
Posted by: at May 29, 2008 7:10 AM
Bill: Not long ago I tried to sort out how much the average BM weighs. I had trouble getting Google to return useful results.
John: I know what you mean about calorie counters. For the longest time I had trouble figuring out how to calculate what I burned riding a bike. Online tools returned things ranging from 200 calorie and hour to 10,000 calories an hour (which are gross exaggerations by me ... but make the point ... they weren't close). I finally went with what Bicycle Magazine suggests. And still, sometimes I wonder.
Finn: That was my thought exactly. My hope, at least.
BBM: 18 pounds the whole pregnancy? We won't share that with my sister.
Posted by: delmer at May 29, 2008 9:57 AM
Now we know how much that bulge in the back of your bike pants weighs: 8 pounds.
Posted by: Icy Mt. at May 29, 2008 1:16 PM
Yeah, women and "that time" - Hormones are powerful shtuff, just powerful.
Since I'm four-foot-ten-and-three-quarter-inches short, AND small boned, a couple of pounds makes a big difference! I once gained 5 lbs in 2 days (???!!!) and I didn't DIE but it was difficult to keep telling myself that it was all water retention (I had gotten an IV/Saline drip to hydrate me after an infection...) even though I felt like a water balloon I was so gooshy.
Since you're more than double my weight, 8 lbs is about right for some whacked water retention and maybe some fully loaded large intestines. But I thought popcorn was packed with fiber?
Posted by: Ms. Q at June 1, 2008 11:52 AM
IcyMt: Eight pounds seems about right, I guess.
MsQ: In an uncommon move for me, I failed to report that day's bathroom activities ... but, I believe the drop back to 242 was related, in part, to the high-fibernous of the popcorn.
Posted by: delmer at June 2, 2008 6:39 AM