173.2

Still hopping around the 170s/180s line. Last week was tough between some personal matters and scheduling and PMS.

However, I do have a NSV! I ordered some new clothes for work, which included a pair of Dockers. The last time I wore Dockers I was a freshman in high school buying clothes for my school uniform. I very vividly remember buying a Size 12 (and I remember being disappointed about that).

Well, I'm wearing Size 12 Dockers for the first time since I was 14! I've never been one to remember my weight at certain points in my life, so it's kinda cool to at least be able to compare my size this way.

177 today.

MauiKai, I get those bounces too. Like I'm pretty sure I'll see one soon-ish. I can often feel when they're coming (and still they're annoying).

How do you calibrate your digital scale???

Wow, you do have a tiny frame. I think I have a medium-large frame. It's a bit hard to tell when I'm still in the high range of overweight, though (my wrists are definitely chubby).

Thanks, Crow. I hope I make good progress. You'll probably see my weight loss slow, stall, bounce up a couple pounds, stall, drop 0.2 pounds, bounce up, stall, and then drop a couple pounds and repeat. Gotta love bounces.

Congrats on the new size, NNS! :yay:

Well all scales are different. Mine is really simple. You activate it, then I use my toes to lift it up on to the front two legs, then set it down. This starts a calibration. It says CAL, then goes off, then you hop on it, and it'll be a inaccurate number so you ignore it. It uses that to test it's cal, then it says CAL again. Then when it goes off, it's all done. It takes like 15 seconds to do.


Yes, I do have a really small frame, which makes being fat even less fun than it already is..! I wear size 4 rings.

You can also measure your frame by the width of your elbow bones too.

175.4 today.

I looked online at my type of scale and apparently it recalibrates itself. It shows these lines across the screen, which supposedly mean it is recalibrating itself. I didn't know that, but it's a good thing I think (it gets recalibrated pretty often if that's the case). At least, that's what the online instruction manual says.
Although, I'm a bit offended. It does say, "CAUTION: Weight exceeding the capacity of 350 LB may damage your scale. This scale is designed for personal use only, not commercial/industrial use." Kind of insensitive to assume the 350+ lbs is for industrial use and not a person. I've never been 350+ lbs (though I easily could have gotten there), but there are plenty of people who are.

My elbows are even chubbier than my wrists. I remember when I got down to the 140s years ago, my wrist was almost an inch smaller than it was at my highest weight, ditto with my elbow circumpherance. That moved me from a large frame to a small-medium frame, and I was barely under the "normal weight" mark. It's hard to get a read on most of my bones with all the insulation around them.;)

That's good. Mine recalibrates on it's own every so often as well, but with digital scales they say any time it's moved it should be recalibrated. Mine is in a high traffic area, my kitchen, and gets bumped and moved often. I even found the dog standing on it once. So I make sure to do it a couple of times a week. Like I said, it's 15 seconds. I learned this with my old on. It told me repeatedly that I was the same weight...for days and days. I was baffled because I had been eating well, and I felt lighter! Finally I looked up how to recalibrate it and boom, I lost like 4lbs in an instant.

You don't change frame sizes since it's based on your bones, not weight, so if it changes it was merely inaccurate measurements. No worries. Frame size might not be as helpful to everyone as it is to me. It's probably more useful if you're on one end or other of the extremes like I am. It helped me figure out why other people of similar heights and weights were wearing much smaller clothes than I was. Turns out, they had larger frames than I, so even though we weighed in similarly, I was still fatter than they. I've had tall friends of similar weights wearing 6's when I was a 10, and 10's when I was in a 14. I couldn't understand! Now I get it. My fluffy fat did it. :( Alas, I am still fluffy, but getting less so!

173.0 today

Look at you guys! It's like a collective "woosh" - suddenly everyone is moving down!

I'm at 170.2. So close I can taste it, yet not quite there. Killing me!

178 today.

I think I'm a medium frame, not particularly on either end of the spectrum. I'd never thought about how much frame size could skew how a body looks.

Chubabub, you're so close! Hope they have the 160s thread warmed up for you.

172.8

175.2. The whoosh is over. Dang. It was a nice ride.

Chubabub - you're SO close! You'll be leaving us soon! Congrats!

Looks like you're firmly in the 170s, Crow!

But with fat around the bones, that adds to the measurement, doesn't it? You can't get under the fat. If that's not the case, how does it work? (Sorry, I've just wondered about this for years - I never got how an accurate measurement of bone size could be gotten from someone who's obese).

With the elbow it is usually easier, because all you do is bend your arm at a 90 degree angle and put your pointer finger on one bone, and your thumb on the other pointy bone, then measure the gap between your fingers. Unless someone is overweight enough that they can't find the bones, that should work, in theory. You aren't measuring "around the elbow" so having a larger arm shouldn't matter, really. The wrist is probably a different story though.

And what do you mean the whoosh is over? You are still down .2 lbs since the last weigh in, right? :carrot:

Yes, but the .2 lbs was from weighing myself twice, and once was 175.4, but I picked the number I liked better. ;)
It's fine - my body 'settles' into a weight a lot of times after a bigger drop in weight, and then I sit there until it decides it's time to lose again.

On another topic, I was thinking about the one time I got down to a normal weight in my life (in the 140s), I remember my tailbone had NO padding, and sitting was very uncomfortable on hard surfaces. I'm basically junk-less in my trunk, and it just gets way worse with weight loss. I don't mind, but I noticed that it's already starting for me in the 170s. Last time it wasn't an issue until like the 150s. It's not bad yet, but I get that uncomfortable pressure on my tailbone when sitting if I don't lean forward. Oh well. I'll sit on a cushion all the time if I have to if I can lose all the weight I want to drop. :yes:

Anyone else ever get the tailbone thing? I wonder if skinny people always have it and just deal with it... or if always-skinny people have developed more of a callous there for protection?

Oh yes, I had that when I was much thinner. What helps is butt muscle. I don't know if it's currently in production, but there was a beachbody set called "Brazil Butt lift" that can help add some pump to the bumps back there! Plus the host guy is hilarious. My hubby hated me sitting on his lap because of my boney butt.

175.4 today. Really looking forward to seeing 169 in the near future!

I hear that!