Fat Enders

[Karl Henning]

This morning's moment in the holding pattern: 237.2

Gonna climb at lunchtime!

[Karl Henning]

Couldn't climb yesterday; there was an alarm in the building just when I'd suited up for my climb, and the stairs were closed.

Still, got out for a short walk last night.

This  morning: 236.8

[Bogey]

Shot back up to 222...yikes.  Cannot stop doing my homework for a couple weeks.

[Karl Henning]

This morning: 236.6

[Bogey]

Dropped to 218.  Only 28 to go.....

[Karl Henning]

Excellent, Bill!

This morning (again): 236.6

[Karl Henning]

Pinch me.

This morning: 235.0

[Bogey]

Pinch me.

This morning: 235.0

On your way to making that tens family change yet again, Karl!

[Karl Henning]

I'm game to try, Bill!

Yesterday I pulled all the right levers. Had two (brief) jaunts on the bicycle, climbed 32 flights of stairs, went for an hour's walk after I got home;  and had an unusual degree of dietary control.  I shall see if I cannot keep to the true path to-day!

[Karl Henning]

Climbed to the 33^rd floor again to-day.

[Bogey]

I'm game to try, Bill!

Yesterday I pulled all the right levers. Had two (brief) jaunts on the bicycle, climbed 32 flights of stairs, went for an hour's walk after I got home;  and had an unusual degree of dietary control.  I shall see if I cannot keep to the true path to-day!

Do the ladies join you, or are you solo?  I a trying to get Linda to join for any walks.

[Papy Oli]

Finally back on the downwards trend : Lost 4 pounds in the last 2 weeks down to 102.6 kg this morning (18.6 pounds lost to date).

Stepping up the exercise is starting to pay off (now doing 6 to 10 km fast walks 3 to 4 times a week at the moment).

[Karl Henning]

This morning: 235.8

Can I at last earn the 4 in the ones column this week? We shall see . . . .

[Parsifal]

I'm game to try, Bill!

Yesterday I pulled all the right levers. Had two (brief) jaunts on the bicycle, climbed 32 flights of stairs, went for an hour's walk after I got home;  and had an unusual degree of dietary control.  I shall see if I cannot keep to the true path to-day!

Here's an informative calculation.  A flight of stairs is about 4 meters worth of climbing.  You report your weight as 214 pounds, which is 950 Newtons in metric units.  The amount of energy you expend climbing a flight of stairs is therefore (4 meters)(950 Newtons) = 3800 Joules.  If you climb 32 flights, that's about 120,000 Joules.  The human body has an efficiency of about 25%, so you expend about 500,000 Joules climbing those stairs.  But 1 Calorie is 4,190 Joules.  By climbing those stairs you have burned off (500,000 J)/(4190 J/Cal) = 116 Calories.  That entitles you to eat one oreo cookie!

On the other hand, aerobic excercise is good for cardiovascular health.

[ibanezmonster]

Here's an informative calculation.  A flight of stairs is about 4 meters worth of climbing.  You report your weight as 214 pounds, which is 950 Newtons in metric units.  The amount of energy you expend climbing a flight of stairs is therefore (4 meters)(950 Newtons) = 3800 Joules.  If you climb 32 flights, that's about 120,000 Joules.  The human body has an efficiency of about 25%, so you expend about 500,000 Joules climbing those stairs.  But 1 Calorie is 4,190 Joules.  By climbing those stairs you have burned off (500,000 J)/(4190 J/Cal) = 116 Calories.  That entitles you to eat one oreo cookie!

On the other hand, aerobic excercise is good for cardiovascular health.

It's all about diet...

[Karl Henning]

. . .  You report your weight as 214 pounds, which is 950 Newtons in metric units.

This morning: 235.8

So my first question is, whence the 214.

And offhand, I should have thought 214 lb is ca. 97 kg in metric measure. I only mean that my wife and mom-in-law, who have used metric all their lives, express their body weight in kg, not Newtons.

[North Star]

So my first question is, whence the 214.

And offhand, I should have thought 214 lb is ca. 97 kg in metric measure. I only mean that my wife and mom-in-law, who have used metric all their lives, express their body weight in kg, not Newtons.

But kg and lb are units of mass, not weight (although in colloquial language that's not the case). When calculating the work done against Earth's gravity, you use the weight, not mass (since the gravity field is almost constant in this case). The actual weight (in Newtons) is different depending on the strength of the gravity in your location (Wiki: Apparent gravity on the earth's surface in m/s² varies by around 0.6%, from about 9.776 near the equator or at high elevation to 9.832 at the poles.)

Your first question I can't answer, though, Karl.

[Karl Henning]

Thank you, sir.

[Parsifal]

So my first question is, whence the 214.

And offhand, I should have thought 214 lb is ca. 97 kg in metric measure. I only mean that my wife and mom-in-law, who have used metric all their lives, express their body weight in kg, not Newtons.

Sorry, I wasn't careful and skimmed 214 pounds off someone else's posting, I think.

Pounds is technically a measure of force although the mass whose weight is a pound is a de-facto measure of mass.  Using the correct 234 pounds, weight is 1040 Newtons (106 kg) and the tally of Calories reaches 127.  That's closer to one and a half Oreos!  (An Oreo is about 80 calories.)

[Bogey]

216.5

Funny how dropping a pound.5 is making me reconsider having popcorn at the Star Trek movie today.