Life of E's

A newly minted mechanical engineer describes disappointments and triumphs in her life

Monday, June 19, 2006

I saw the following headline on drudgereport.com:

Yo-Yo Diet: Nestle to Buy Diet Giant Jenny Craig?...

Is that ironic? That a company that made it's name selling chocolate wants to buy a weight loss company?

For those of you who have not met me in person, I’m pretty thickly built. It wouldn’t kill me to stop eating and go live in my gym for awhile. However, my gym is in a strip mall near my house which contains no fewer than FOUR bakeries as well as a Chinese takeout place and a family restaurant. I find it to be nearly demoralizing to walk by the Great Harvest Bread Company on my way to and from my workouts.

For the record, I just had a bone density scan done (for fun) and my t-score is 3.4. That means I am 3.4 standard deviations (SD) above the young adult mean. The young adult mean is the expected normal value for me compared to other women of the same ethnicity. That puts me in the like 99.996th percentile for bone density. (Although it bothers me, I am unable to find the true percentile value. If someone else finds it, please pass it along!)

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1 Comments:

Blogger CollaterKal said...

For the record,
3 standard deviations is 99.73002039367 %ile
4 standard deviations is
99.99366575163 %ile
So I am somewhere in between...

3:46 PM  

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