{"id":1818,"date":"2015-10-29T22:18:28","date_gmt":"2015-10-29T20:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/?p=1818"},"modified":"2015-10-29T22:34:36","modified_gmt":"2015-10-29T20:34:36","slug":"swiss-precision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/?p=1818","title":{"rendered":"Swiss Precision"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"BathroomI have an old analog scale, inherited from my parents. It sits in Dorje’s room, mostly gathering dust.<\/p>\n

I’ve never worried much about weighing myself, but in my own mind, I’ve been 80kg most of my adult life, and, more recently, since becoming “fat”<\/a>, moved up to 85kg. The analog scale is not particularly accurate – I can lose 5 kg in 30 minutes, but still, on the rare occasion I stood on it, I never went above 85kg.<\/p>\n

The friends I stayed with in Switzerland had a bathroom scale. All digital, shiny and new, measuring to the 100g. I decided to give it a try. Since I’d walked up a storm in Berlin and Prague, and felt a little lighter than when I arrived in Europe, I imagined something like 83.9kg.<\/p>\n

No. 91.1kg it claimed! So much for Swiss precision… Clearly one of those scales handed out as free marketing for a weight-loss supplement.<\/p>\n

After a few days of alpine walking, on the morning I left, I braved it again. 90.9kg! Pfft. No more accurate than before.<\/p>\n

I rushed to weigh myself on the old scale when I got back home to Cape Town. A sprightly 75kg! Much more like it.<\/p>\n

Still, it may not be coincidence that I’ve jogged around the field outside a few times the last couple of days. Yes, jogged. I don’t think I’ve jogged since school – it’s been all sedate walking or all out action since then. And have obviously managed to put on 5kg of pure muscle, weighing in at 80kg two days later. <\/p>\n

I don’t really know how to explain the increase to 82kg since I started writing this post though… Perhaps those 7-minute workouts<\/a> I do every few weeks have a delayed muscle-building effect?<\/p>\n

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