During a bleak period in the summer of 2001, I ballooned to 227 pounds before swearing off weighing myself. An era of minimal exercise. A steady diet of pizza, Pop Tarts and my father’s Keystone Light.
About a year later, after a Men’s Wearhouse tailor publicly corrected my stated pants size (“38? ‘Fraid not. You’re a 40.”), I strapped myself to an exercise bike and didn’t get off until the mid-180s.
Now I hop on the scale every Tuesday morning. For anyone adhering to a similar routine, those trendspotting gurus over at CoolHunting point us to the Celebrity Fit Scale. Instead of numbers, your weight is displayed by the name of a similar-sized celebrity. Baby Jesus to King Kong.
At my most bulbous, I probably weighed “Roseanne.” Seriously, it was a lot of Pop Tarts.
Stay tuned for more “getting to know the new kid” trivia loosely tied to blog-worthy material.
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This scale is sort of like my plan to start measuring distances based on album lengths, like, for example, heading to La Brea and back to my LA apartment is about 2/3 of a Tom Waits’ “Blood Money.”
Fool proof.
posted by DavidCCasey on 8-23-2006 at 2:17 pm
Yep, or like how many beers it takes for the charcoal to get ready — which is directly affected by humidity, wind speed, and how cold the beers are.
I really dig that scale!
posted by andi on 8-23-2006 at 4:28 pm
I don’t know… I wish I could see the whole “scale” of Celebrity Weights. Just from what I see: Hulk Hogan heavier than Mr. Ed? Not likely (and potential cause for a defamation suit). And Gizmo (I’m assuming from “Gremlins”) heavier than the Baby Jesus? Only if the Son of God was delivered about 6 weeks premature… which would mean we should have been exchanging gifts on Groundhog Day… that hurts my brain (but it makes me glad I don’t take down my Xmas decor until March).
posted by wendell on 8-23-2006 at 7:12 pm