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Couch to 5K Accountability Thread
Barmymoo:
Because I'm a) English and b) in my twenties, so the child of parents who grew up during the conversion period, I'm comfortable with feet and inches, miles, kilograms and ounces. I measure my height in imperial, distances in miles, my weight in kilograms (but only because that's what the doctor weighs me in - I used to use stone) and I bake in ounces but cook in grams. It is confusing.
My weighing scales are set in kilograms, because that's the unit I was weighed in on the first Wednesday, at the doctor. But I'm aiming to lose about a pound a week, so that's what my calorie counting website is set in. Which means lots of google conversion!
bainidhe_dub:
1) You can't change the units on MyFitnessPal? That is unexpected and weird. 2) Have you tried onlineconversion.com? It is my favorite site ever for converting anything to almost anything. It is also the first result when you (I) Google search for "convert" so it's easy to find.
I really have no sense of metric conversions beyond centimeters, because they are on rulers too, and meters, but only up to like 3 because that's about 10 feet. I find it awkward not to have anything between them though - it jumps from measuring things by the width of my pinky finger at a time, to half my height. Apparently 1 kilogram = 2.2 pounds and 1 pound = 0.45 kilogram.
Oh yeah I tried to run around with my niece at the playground tonight (in flipflops) and dude my ankles were not happy. Boo.
Barmymoo:
You can change the units, but for some reason weight loss in my head is always in pounds. A pound a week is the healthy rate. I have no idea what that is in kilos.
A Wet Helmet:
A little under half a kilo.
Actually up to about a kilo a week is generally regarded as a safe rate of weight loss. Above that and you start getting into potentially unhealthy situations. Below that-- eg a pound a week-- is perfectly acceptable as well. I've found that there is very little rhyme or reason to the rate of weight loss when I'm being very disciplined about my diet and exercise regime. Sometimes is glacially slow, sometimes I'll drop three and a half pounds in a week.
Akima:
--- Quote from: Barmymoo on 08 Jun 2012, 01:57 ---You can change the units, but for some reason weight loss in my head is always in pounds. A pound a week is the healthy rate. I have no idea what that is in kilos.
--- End quote ---
Technically, it is 0.453kg, or near enough half a kilo. I'm not sure that bathroom scales are even accurate (or readable if they're old-fashioned analogue dial) to that fine a measure.
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