Will O'the Wisp ([info]wotw) wrote,
@ 2009-05-28 14:09:00
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The Hidden Cost of Parties
My daily weight, starting the day before last weekend's party and continuing
through today:





That's an EIGHT POUND GAIN owing to the party and its aftermath. I have weighed
174 before, but I've never weighed more.

Back to the rowing machine!

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[info]dr_memory
2009-05-28 06:31 pm UTC (link)
Fit a rolling weighted average to that sucker, or it means nothing other than "you have a lot of water/food currently working its way through your gut."

cf: http://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/e4/signalnoise.html (the math will be trivially obvious to you; the pointer is mainly for your other readers)

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[info]reedrover
2009-05-28 06:36 pm UTC (link)
Should I make a tsk-tsk noise and tell you that your fawning roman servant girls need to use more grapes and fewer chocolate bon-bons when hand-feeding you?

I hope the party was good, regardless. Just close your eyes and think of happy memories while you are on the rowing machine.

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[info]gatopreto
2009-05-28 07:00 pm UTC (link)
People often ask me if I have lost weight. I reply, "Yes, the same five pounds (188 - 193) over and over again."T

here is an adage--if you don't come back from a vacation (or a stay-cation in your case) either broke or 5-10 pounds heavier, you are doing it wrong.

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It's all a matter of scale
[info]drwex
2009-05-28 08:33 pm UTC (link)
(pun intended)

If you baselined your graph at zero it wouldn't look so dramatic. Unfortunately I cannot easily find the section in Tufte that describes this sort of presentation, but by picking the arbitrary baseline of 162 you've created a graph that makes it seem as though you've tripled some value (bar height of Thursday, left versus Wednesday) when in fact it has only increased by 4.8%.

I hope you wouldn't accept this sort of thing from one of your students (and that you have an easier time losing weight than I do :)

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[info]beowabbit
2009-05-28 08:49 pm UTC (link)
Clearly the message here is that you need to get more exercise at your parties.

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[info]inthatoneway
2009-05-28 11:01 pm UTC (link)
To be honest, that didn't seem to be an issue...

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[info]debsquared
2009-05-29 02:06 am UTC (link)
Perhaps you're just fluffy?

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[info]spiritfreedom
2009-05-29 02:25 am UTC (link)
Well, on the up side, at least you can now identify the different muscle groups of your body and exercise them more efficiently.

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[info]dwildchil
2009-05-29 04:39 pm UTC (link)
Good to know that you're in touch with your feminine side. Women go through this kind of weight swing ALL THE TIME! =}

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[info]dietrich
2009-05-30 06:08 am UTC (link)
That must be where [info]saetyr's 8 pounds went!

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