How much do you weigh? How to convert kilos to stones and pounds

Selfie photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright.

I weigh myself every morning, to find out whether my weight has gone up or down.

BMI

Your bmi is your height and weight ratio taking into account your age. You can find charts which tell you whether you are within the ideal range, or too high or too low.

Weigh what you eat

You can weigh what you eat. But an alternative is simply to look at your plate. Losing weight or adding weight is not complicated. If you look at what is on your plate and in your glass, that is what will fill out your stomach. 

Reasons For Weight Variation

Your weight is likely to vary a bit daily, regardless, because of slight variations in how much you ate or drank, when you last used the toilet, how much you perspired in the night.

If you keep a one year check you can plot how much you are going up and down. You could write your weight in your diary every day.

Stone and Pounds

I grew up with stones and lbs. I know I was 7 stone 7 as a teenager so I was thinking of that as my ideal weight. It was an easy to remember number. I knew that really heavyweight people were 20 stones!

How To Record A Chart

You might find it useful to print off a chart and stick it in the back of your diary. If you have a small diary, you could highlight just the relevant numbers such as your current weight and your target weight. Cut that out and fold it and stick it in the back cover of your diary. Or copy the highlighted part into a photo on your mobile phone.

Useful websites 

thecalculatorsite.com/conversions/kg-to-stones-pounds.php

Remember to bargain in Asia - this is what to do

Remember to bargain in Singapore.

So long as you are polite, you won't cause offense and you might save yourself some money. We used to have a saying in England, look after the pennies and the pounds will look after themselves.

Singapore flag.

Lovely Large Lim's
In Singapore, I went to Lim's store, upstairs in Holland Village. The entrance to the upstairs shops is an escalator indoors and set back in a small lobby beside the entrance to the supermarket.

I used to browse and shop a lot in Lim's. This year I saw a rack of dresses by the shop open front with the tempting sign above the dresses for $12.

I asked the store owner if she had anything cheaper, or could reduce the price. She said, "already low price".

I looked all around at her other designs. The least expensive were those caftans beside the doorway. Large armholes, so sure to fit me. I liked several of the colours.

But I really wanted to pay only ten dollars. I decided first to check out the store across the way.

Over at Kim's I saw a caftan with an elephant pattern.  Same price. Twelve dollars. She showed me several other dresses, beyond my budget.

I was short of time, meeting friends shortly, and had already found an item I wanted near the price I wanted to pay.

But I had in mind spending ten dollars, not twelve. So I asked the seller, "What is your best price, how about ten dollars?"

She thought, then said, "eleven".

I sighed, "Ten."

She shook her head. "Eleven."

I thought. Then accepted. At least I had saved a dollar.

I asked, "Cash or credit card?' I knew her answer was going to be cash.

Later I told my Singaporean friends how I had offered ten but ended up paying eleven.. My friend Chia said, "You should have offered eight! Then she would have offered ten."

Useful Addresses & Websites
New Kim Dressmaker
Alice Ong
211 Holland Avenue #02-29
Holland Road Shopping Centre,
Singapore 278967
Tel: (+65) 6467 2056
Hp: (+65) 9834 3220
singaporeair.com

Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.