OK, guys, since tomorrow is the big weigh-in I'd like to remind everyone of the rules. In order to preserve everyone's diginity, no one needs to post their actual weight. Take out your trusty rusty calculators at home and figure out:
(weight last thrusday minus weight this thursday) divided by weight last thursday times 100.
Example:
wt last Thur: 160
wt this Thur: 150
(160 - 150)/160 x 100 = 6.25%
Example 2:
wt last Thur: 160
wt this Thur: 170
(160 - 170)/160 x 100 = -6.25%
Keep in mind that the competition is only for how much weight you lost this week. You can feel free to post the total percentage of weight you've lost since the beginning of the competition, but we are only competing on a week by week basis.
(weight last thrusday minus weight this thursday) divided by weight last thursday times 100.
Example:
wt last Thur: 160
wt this Thur: 150
(160 - 150)/160 x 100 = 6.25%
Example 2:
wt last Thur: 160
wt this Thur: 170
(160 - 170)/160 x 100 = -6.25%
Keep in mind that the competition is only for how much weight you lost this week. You can feel free to post the total percentage of weight you've lost since the beginning of the competition, but we are only competing on a week by week basis.
If you aren't a math guy, you can just email the info to me and I'll figure it out for you and post it.
Then after you've done that, I'd like you to send me an email. Telling me your original weight, your weight from the beginning of the week and your weight from the end of the week, just so that I can follow the whole thing clearly and keep some stats, and make sure there is no creative algebra going on.
Many thanks to Yrautca for coming up with this formula. Mine didn't account for weight gain. Although I wonder, Yrautca, are you planning on gaining weight while competing in this challenger, or were you trying to make things easier for Ashley?
4 comments:
Jennifer I think a better measure would be:
(weight last thrusday minus weight this thursday) divided by weight last thursday times 100.
This would also account for weight gain.
Example:
wt last Thur: 160
wt this Thur: 150
(160 - 150)/160 x 100 = 6.25%
Example 2:
wt last Thur: 160
wt this Thur: 170
(160 - 170)/160 x 100 = -6.25%
Yrautca,
You are quite right, just to save confusion, I'm going to change the original post to reflect this.
Obviously, all that education hasn't gone to waste on you!
I think I may be one of the losers who gained this week. Have had a few beers since Monday. I will do the weigh-in after gym tomorrow evening so I will be motivated to go the extra mile to get a postive %. Suckers......
You guys are NERDS...LOL!!! *not about the weight loss, but about the math*
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