Our scale, after it tells you your weight, tells you the weight of the person who last stepped on the scale. Who thought this would be a good idea??
— Megyn Kelly (@megynkelly) March 14, 2021
March 14, 2021
Just because you can doesn't mean you should.
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Our scale, after it tells you your weight, tells you the weight of the person who last stepped on the scale. Who thought this would be a good idea??
The person who bought it.
Cue Jeff Goldblum on "your scientists."
We live in a snitch culture these days.
Only ppl who live alone buy this scale?
Who cares if someone else knows your weight? There's a tinge of fat-shaming/overeater's psychosis wrapped up in her humor.
Mostly, though, I want to yell at tech: Stop helping me! They incorporate so many things designed to guess my needs that end up annoying and counterproductive.
Sometimes I go to get gas and the last person's receipt is still in the machine.
The feature was probably intended just to tell a single user what their weight was the last time so they know if it went up or down.
The feature is there to let you compare with yesterday's weight.
You could probably change a setting if you wanted to take the time to figure it out.
Shame can be a powerful motivator.
Megyn is on a tare...
Blogger rhhardin said...
The feature is there to let you compare with yesterday's weight.
Do many people weigh themselves everyday? When the likely difference, if any, is smaller than the weight of a tall glass of water, or a bowel movement, it seems not particularly useful.
@ Lord Somber: I see what you did there...
"Just because you can doesn't mean you should."
The message Charlie Hebdo can't grasp.
"The feature was probably intended just to tell a single user what their weight was the last time so they know if it went up or down."
That must be it. Now that you mention it I would like one!
"Do many people weigh themselves everyday?"
Yes. I think it's important. If you let days pass, you start getting vague about what you're doing each day and the effect it has and you start delaying stepping on the scale again. Yes, of course you know that it might be a random blip having to do with water weight or something, but if you weigh yourself every day, you're conscious of the pattern. It's easier to slough extra pounds off if you only look once a week.
We live in days, and the things you do every day, you'll do consistently. If it's not a daily habit, it's much hard to keep up a given practice.
There are people who have sex every day out of a concern that if they don't do it every day, eventually they'll never get around to it. That's a bit extreme, but I'll just throw that out there.
Amusing, both that people didn’t immediately see the point of what the scale was doing, and at the same time didn’t see Kelly was making a joke.
I just write my weight down on an old fashioned calendar near the scale. Then I can see monthly trends. But I live alone so there's no snooping, snitching, or embarrassment. Just honesty.
"Our scale, after it tells you your weight, tells you the weight of the person who last stepped on the scale. "
Not as bad as a Fitbit with Deepak Chopra.
People are funny with their different obsessions and neuroses. I can not imagine feeling the need to step on a scale every day. Maybe not knowing our weight with exactitude every waking moment -- or even really caring very much -- is our neuroses. For you need-to-weighers, I dare you to try not weighing yourselves for one month. Give it up for the rest of Lent. See how that feels. To reciprocate, I would need to buy a scale. We've never had one bc dietician wife, who is fit, has never bought one.
Blogger Ann Althouse said...
We live in days, and the things you do every day, you'll do consistently. If it's not a daily habit, it's much hard to keep up a given practice.
Sounds like you and Scott Adams agree on the importance of systems.
"Do many people weigh themselves everyday? When the likely difference, if any, is smaller than the weight of a tall glass of water, or a bowel movement, it seems not particularly useful."
Every day, naked, first thing in morning before ingesting anything. It ain't rocket science.
Enter weight into a spreadsheet. Essential for losing weight. I gained 20 lbs this winter. A month ago I decided to lose it. I'm half way there. Easy as pie; just eat less. But without a daily weighing to keep me honest, I would not succeed.
Blogger LordSomber said...
Megyn is on a tare...
ISWYDT!
LordSomber: Megyn is on a tare...
Resetting her scale to 0 while standing on it?
As to this scale; I hate my devices talking to me. Know your place, tool.
Even though I'm on a diet, corned beef and cabbage and all-day college hockey tournament binge today! Expect a blip up tomorrow.
Just step on it twice. Problem solved.
Oh, wait...
God forbid someone knows what her weight is...
104, 102, 106...
That last one (blimp city) would be totally shame-inducing : )
"There are people who have sex every day out of a concern that if they don't do it every day, eventually they'll never get around to it."
So, they do it whether they want to or not. I remember seeing a book on someone's desk, You Know You're Forty... (and I was still in my 30's).
One of the cartoons was of a chunky, older businessman on a plane typing into a computer with a young bombshell seated next to him. The caption was "...when work becomes fun, and fun becomes work."
"People are funny with their different obsessions and neuroses."
When I would visit my dad (a big privacy guy), he would always ask me if I wanted his 'Popular Mechanics' or 'Sunset' magazines.
I would take them to be polite.
The labels showing his name and address were always torn off.
I asked him why he bothered.
'You never know who might get ahold of these.'
: )
Kelly should get an internet connected scale. Then the whole world would know her weight.
My scale just says, "One at a time, please."
Actually it might be a way (weigh?) to stimulate sales of scales. As in: I love my scale, but I've got to get hubby his own so he won't see my weight.
When I was a kid, I babysat for my aunt and uncle. They had a talking scale that would tell you how you gained or lost since last time you stepped on it. I was a scrawny 120 pound beanpole, my uncle was enormous and struggled with his weight. Every time I babysat, I would step on the scale and it would say "You've lost 200 pounds". Whenever my uncle would get on it after I had left he'd hear "You've gained 200 pounds". It really annoyed him. I thoughg it was hilarious.
Engineers call that the triumph of technique over purpose.
I, for one, look forward to the hacking and release of secretly recorded Peleton exercise sessions of famous celebrities and politicians. That would be comedy enough for some time.
I think it's a great idea. I have a 180 pound dummy I put on the scales after I weigh myself. This fools Mrs Moore.
Not.
Good thing this is not the way toilets work.
Good one, LordSomber.
I'm like Original Mike--first thing in the morning, usually, naked before my shower, and am now consistently closer to 220 lbs than 230.
Prof's 'easier to slough off' phrase seems ambiguous to me. Am I the only one?
Narr
Sex every day? I'm fine with every 36 hours.
If you really, really want to accurately track your body fat: hydrostatic weighing. We lose muscle mass as we age - are you 100% positive your weight loss is fat? When I was into competitive weightlifting I used to diet down to the lowest weight class possible (111 lb. women's class), getting hydrostatically weighed at regular intervals. It was surprising how much weight loss was muscle, despite pumping all that iron and being a relatively young 30-something. I could also shed eight pounds (8 lbs.) of water via sweating - which was necessary at one meet to make weight. Once I stopped competing I tossed the scales in favor of "do these jeans I bought 15 years ago still fit?" If not - time to focus more on what is stuffed into the pie hole.
Full transparency.
Mine does too, perhaps we've got the same scale as Megyn!!!
I weigh myself every day, as I have since 2004 when, at nearly 200lbs, I set off to lose some weight. I don't really need this feature on the scale because I record my daily weigh in a spreadsheet. I've got 17 years of data collected. The scale shows me my weight today and then changes color to show me the last weight it registered. If it shows 165 lbs +/- it was me.
Blogger ALP said...
If you really, really want to accurately track your body fat: hydrostatic weighing.
I remember doing that in wrestling in High School. The school trainer wanted to hydrostatically weigh everyone to make sure they were healthily meeting weight. Cutting weight in wrestling is a big thing. I remember many wrestlers, including my brother, joggind around in sweats and nylon track outfits to sweat out excess weight to make weight. Some would also constnatly spit, into a bottle on the bus ride over to make weight. I never really had that problem because I was always a fair bit under the weight class. I ended up wrestling at 215 lbs. but never got over like 211 or so. But when I was hydrostatically weighed I was at 6% bodyfat which the trainer said was the lowest safe limit of body fat. Then I went to college.
I don’t even bother weighing myself much. I’m always the same. I’m actually 150 lbs. With the afro 155. Pretty good dribbler.
The prime directive of engineering, science, medical practice, social progress, etc. Yes, it's a choice (pun intended).
"I don’t even bother weighing myself much. I’m always the same. I’m actually 150 lbs. With the afro 155. Pretty good dribbler."
That sex everyday whether you want it or not keeps you in shape.
I weigh myself first thing in the morning every day (so there is consistency) and track it on an app called loseit! Loseit! also sets up and allows you to track a eating plan that will allow you to hit a certain weight by a certain date. Quite easy to use and quite helpful.
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