Gremlins have gone away

The scales stayed stable for 2 measurements this morning, so I decided it was good data and recorded it. Here are the results for February.

Looks like I lost around a kilo in February. In January, my weigh-ins were in the 334 - 336 range.

What’s on this chart?

• The blue diamonds are the actual weight measurements
• The pink line is a moving average, calculated over 7 days
• The thin vertical bars at each measurement are the error bars. The top and bottom of those bars indicate what my “real” weight might actually be, given that my weight can vary +/- 2 pounds on any given day

What does this mean in geekspeak? Statistically speaking, I can’t claim that I lost any weight at all. But compared to January, I can reasonably say there’s progress.

I don’t live in a geek world, though, I just play one during the workday. So I’m going to claim a total loss to date of 33 pounds, and celebrate my weightloss this month!

Fun statistics facts:

• The tip of a 1/3 inch long hour-hand on a wristwatch travels at 0.00000275 mph
• A 1999 survey of 25,500 standard English-language dictionary words found that 93 percent of them have been registered as dot-coms.
• It’s against the law in Chicago to eat in a place that is on fire.