Warren Buffet was fascinated by the weighing machine during his childhood days. He will weigh everything from coins, to toy cars, etc… (based on Snowball – biography of Warren Buffet). Recently, I started behaving like this great man. I have been weighing myself many times a day… on a digital weighing machine….
And I see interesting results… its like.. my weight actually varies much like a random walk… but such … non-confirmity disturbs me. I mean… I like to see meaningful results… .and this Gyminee software that I use online… just does not give that. Man.. they should have worked in some kind of 30 day averaging graph. (Oh ya.. btw, did you know that the house price index is calculated through a series of complicated monthly averaging stats? they should definitely have adopted a similar approach…)
Frankly, most people can only be bothered about the long term trend. Surely, they are not interested in seeing short term fluctuations, and believe me… a LOT of such fluctuations are activities triggered, i.e. when u do a big business you lose between 200g – 1000g. If its small, it can range from 200g – 400g (Personal statistics..) .
Anyway, here goes my 3 day statistics. Tried to make it work a bit better by understating some results. I actually weighed 71.8kg today… but … did not feel it can be accurate… how can a person lose 2 kg in 3 days??? So rounded it up to 72kg. Hehe.. this the the manual way of doing the averaging… so that I can kind of see the hopefully… long term trend downwards?
This reminds me of the saying “If you cannot measure it, you cannot improve it.” — Lord Kelvin
Btw, your widget is abit out of the page. The LHS is flushed with the right column of your page, but each widget have different sizes.
haha.. yes.. it is out of the paper… well… 2 reasons:
a. my weight is not exactly very complimentary… so really no need to advertise too much about it.
(the more accurate reason…)
b. too lazy to change the blog theme.