Do you track your weight in KG or stones & pound?

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Miserable-Media4527@reddit

I use KG because I go to the gym so it's easier for me to understand. I know what 100kg feels like so I know how much I weigh. Stones and pounds means nothing to my brain!

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Pretty_Signal4186@reddit

Metric is so much easier. I'm an Englishman in his early 30s and I use metric for everything except driving in miles.

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Background_King_3551@reddit

Stones when my children were babies and they got weighed at baby clinic they were weighed in KG. I was taught in pounds and stone's so had to convert into pounds.

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Randystarbuxx@reddit

kg for me! No idea what stones equates to

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CelDidNothingWrong@reddit

How old are you? Wonder whether it’s a generational thing

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driftwooddreams@reddit

Is absolutely is. Gen X here. I hate that I only ‘understand’ stones, feet and miles. I feel like a Neanderthal. Or an American.

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matomo23@reddit

You must have been taught metres, grams and kilograms in school. It was on the curriculum when you were in school so it was mandatory.

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driftwooddreams@reddit

This is true. But it doesn’t seem to have ‘gone in’, nobody in my immediate environment used metric measurements for anything so it wasn’t possible to converse with them at all.

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matomo23@reddit

Oh interesting, everyone I know uses metric for everything else and (unfortunately) I’m no longer young.

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My wife is completely metric and she’s only a few years younger than me. We’re both losing weight at the moment and I only ‘understand’ stones and she only works in kilograms, we’re constantly cross converting into each other’s preferred units.

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cybertonto72@reddit

Nope. More environmental than anything. I'm Gen X and in school it was stone and lbs, with KG and g in the mix. In bakery collage I had to use kg and g. So now all I can do is kg. I know what 20 stone looks and feels like but if someone says that weigh 14 stone I wouldn't know that that was.

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kipha01@reddit

I am genX and I find it hard to work anything out in imperial, metric is far easier. The only thing I work with in imperial is gallons and miles because the UK is stuck in miles on signs. Miles per litre is weird so I do mpg.

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Crochet_Corgi@reddit

We very much dont understand stones across the pond. Lbs for lay people, and kg for medical personnel. Feet, Mile, and vaguely yards/ meters.

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ExultentPisces@reddit

I think it is. Younger people are much more likely to use metric in my experience.

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EhDinnaeEvenKen@reddit

And people in technical or medical fields.

Almost nobody I know who're in those fields, but qualified after the 80's still use imperial.

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cybertonto72@reddit

Catering is also another field that only used metric

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Oster-P@reddit

I'm 40 and use KG but when I was talking to my mum and 9 year older brother they were both saying stone. So something must have switched in that space of time between me and my bro

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Exact-Reference3966@reddit

I'm 41 and use stone.

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Individual-Mix182@reddit

I misread that at first, I thought you were saying you were 40 with a 9 year old brother

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TipsyPhippsy@reddit

I'm 34 and always use stone, as do most people I know, only a few I know of use KG.

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DustTechnical4561@reddit

I'm early Gen X and only use kg, would rather use metric for everything.

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Willsagain2@reddit

I'm over state pension age and weigh myself in KG.

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keithmk@reddit

I am very old, one of the earliest born baby boomers. I use Kg, we used to have to do arithmetic on stones and pounds and hundredweight etc when I was in primary school, but they are all meaningless to me now

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MrPhyshe@reddit

I'm one of the very early Gen X and use Kg.
Always used to get ounces in a pound, and pounds in a stone mixed up so finally made a permanent switch to using Kg about 10 years ago.

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Diligent_Explorer717@reddit

It is, when I was much younger we used stones, somewhere along the line the generational dialogue shifted to kg.

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doctorgibson@reddit

"14 stone? What's that in new money?"

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Exact-Put-6961@reddit

Pontypridd front row.

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Tricky-Reporter-5246@reddit

It's really a really, really small front row then.

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Exact-Put-6961@reddit

There are a few of them linked up

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widdrjb@reddit

Sarah Bern, Our Lady of Hyperviolence.

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mousey76397@reddit

That’s easy! Times it by 7 to get it in lb and then divide by 2.2 to get the KG! Couldn’t be simpler.

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Tricky-Reporter-5246@reddit

There is 14lb in a stone.

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Overheard_anon@reddit

I only know kg and remember when I was young whenever I saw lb I always thought it was pronounced leebuls and was thinking what is that crazy unit.

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mousey76397@reddit

Yeah, I have no idea why I wrote 7. I’m gonna let it stand.

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Tricky-Reporter-5246@reddit

Whole generation gonna be walking about thinking they weigh about 5 and half stone 😆

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Tricky-Reporter-5246@reddit

X14 ÷2 ÷10

Add the 2 together. Simpler still.

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KingForceHundred@reddit

Fat.

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BrowsingOnMaBreak@reddit

Same when someone tells me their weight in stone I just picture a bunch of rocks

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AvidCoco@reddit

That’s literally where it comes from which I always found hilarious as it’s so unhelpful unless you specifically know which stones we’re talking about.

I weight 8 stones but I’m not gonna tell you which 8.

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MassiveBeatdown@reddit

Stone Henge monoliths? Or Pea shingle? There’s no in between.

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Programmer-Severe@reddit

Same with feet! What, a size 6 or a size 10?

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Individual-Mix182@reddit

My size 11 foot is almost exactly 12 inches, so a size 11

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Virtual_Field439@reddit

A stone is 14lbs

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sjr0754@reddit

Thanks, but that doesn't help, because I can't visualise a pound either. I can't work with imperial at all, I end up having to convert it into metric to make any sense of stuff.

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oli_ramsay@reddit

Stones, even though it makes no sense lol. It's just what I'm used to

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Callis_tow@reddit

2.2 pounds is 1kg. 14 pounds to a stone

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HorrorAccomplished78@reddit

A stone is about 32 bananas.

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Mundo7@reddit

do you say “Kay gee” also? heard this way more recently than kilograms

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tripping_yarns@reddit

I know what fat is in stones, so I use kg.

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LambonaHam@reddit

Stone is the superior measurement because you can just pick a really small stone and say 'I weigh 12 of those'.

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LetsAdultTogether@reddit

Sane; I have to do the maths in my head and convert to kg

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Fantastic_Recipe2740@reddit

1 stone = 6.35 imperialists fart on Mars

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DefinitelyNotEmu@reddit

1 stone is exactly 14 pounds (0.157473KG)

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R2-Scotia@reddit

6.35 kg

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DefinitelyNotEmu@reddit

Oops! Corrected! Thanks

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matomo23@reddit

Well if you’re British and not a pensioner you’ll have been taught metric at school as it’s mandatory. You may have been taught imperial if the teacher decided to do that. I wasn’t though and neither were any of my siblings.

But my parents must have told us about stone for body weight as that’s the only way we could know it. I do think in metric though so nowadays I weigh myself in kg as it just means more to me.

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Aela_Nox@reddit

I use KG but whenever I have talked to people about weight (and this is a really random assortment of people) they always ask me to convert to stone 😂

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Norsa321@reddit

Early 30s, stones and pounds. Always have, I don’t understand it in kg

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matomo23@reddit

But you must understand kg though as you were taught it in school and everything else is measured in kg.

Is it that you’ve got no reference point? As in you know what 10 or 11 stone is. I use both and I was only taught metric at school, so my parents must have taught me stone. But as I got older I realised that I thought in metric really, so if I eat too much shite and want to lose some weight it’s easier for me to imagine “ah I’ve lost two big bags of sugar”, or 2kg. Or I’ve lost two big bottles of Pepsi Max! With stone the only reference point is “well I know I was about 10 stone when I was 18”

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Norsa321@reddit

Oh yea, I understand what kilos are and everything. But if someone says they weigh say 80kg, like you said I have no reference to know what that really means. And it’s odd, cause pretty much everything else I’ll work in metric weight except body weight

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chuckiestealady@reddit

48 y/o. I’m using KG even though it’s less familiar to me. I hate the Imperial Measurements so I’m trying to get used to KG in weight and KM in distances.

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FindingHerStrength@reddit

Stones. I’m old school.

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IainMCool@reddit

I'm 45 and I use KG

I grew up with stones and pounds, but when the kids came along, it seemed a bit silly to perpetuate it in the 21st century, so I switched. I've got no idea how much I weigh in old money.

I find it very easy to visualise. I simply think, "That person weighs the same as 80 bags of sugar" /j

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BroodLord1962@reddit

I suspect most older people like myself, will still do stones and pounds. I'm in my 60's

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swapacoinforafish@reddit

I have always weighed myself in stones and pounds. Kilograms don't mean anything to me. You could tell me you weighed 30kg or 250kg I wouldn't know what it meant. I do know a kg is a bag of sugar so weighing a cat I could understand kgs but not a human.

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sulylunat@reddit

Growing up when it was just to get a rough gauge of weight it was stones and pounds. Now that I’m an adult who has to worry about losing weight, I prefer KG. It’s more granular and just clicks nicer in my head. When you’re losing weight you see the number drop more than you would in stone and pounds which is more motivating.

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NekoFever@reddit

Kilos here. I’m in my early 40s.

I’ve definitely noticed a swing towards kilos in the last decade. I started seeing it with people who frequent the gym and those using weight tracking apps.

But also more and more older people who are in medical treatment and so are being weighed frequently by doctors, who will be working in kilos. Chatting to a neighbour in his 80s recently about his imminent surgery and he was talking about weights in kilos.

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pbr7994@reddit

I'm 31,
In the middle of a weight loss thing at the moment and exclusively using Kg,
Stone is basically gibberish to me, don't really have any frame of reference for it

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NekoFever@reddit

Definitely noticed people who have lost weight tend to use kilos. I assumed it was simpler to count backwards in a decimal system.

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hopeelizabethhh@reddit

i started using kg when i started losing weight because it makes it easier to visualise for me.

like, “i’ve lost 18kg, that’s 18 of these bags of sugar”

compared to, “i’ve lost just under 3 stone, that’s… just under 3 stone”

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Albert_Herring@reddit

For my ancient generation, I think the rule is that if you're trying to lose weight, you lose pounds or stones, but if you're trying not to lose weight, it's in kg.

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pbr7994@reddit

Basically exactly the same reasoning as me, everything else is weighed in kg so it's much easier to have that comparison, basically nothing other than people is weighed in stone so it's way harder to picture what the number actually means

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vbanksy@reddit

Stone and pounds and ounces are all gibberish.

I have a vague idea that 60kg might be 10st but it might even be closer to 9st or to 11st.

In the back of my mind I think 14oz = 1lb but 16lb = 1st which always confused me because why are they different?

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MaidInWales@reddit

Early 60s here, stones and pounds for myself, kgs for the doctor.

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pullingteeths@reddit

I feel like people should be adding their gender. There's a very high proportion of young men on Reddit and they're going to be more likely to go to the gym and use kg/modern methods

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fuck_peeps_not_sheep@reddit

Stone and pounds, its how ive always done it - kg are what i measure food and my dog and soil in lol

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CrustyHumdinger@reddit

Kg. Only recently switched, but I am pretty much metric now. Still think in miles, tho'

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brett_conway@reddit

I prefer KGs and use KGs as does my younger brother (I’m 37 and he’s 19). My wife uses KGs as well. Growing up everyone I knew who weighed themselves (grandma, mum, uncles etc.) used stones and lbs so I had plenty of exposure to it and can use both and still do when I’m speaking to older generations generally.

Same with height, I use CM but can as comfortably use feet and inches.

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Calluummmmm@reddit

29 year old and I track in kilos.

All the weights in my gym are in kilos so that makes sense.

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LostInAisle1@reddit

I track my obesity using kg. I am a 70yo Brit.

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Zee_has_cookies@reddit

37, and I’ve used kg for the last 5-8 years or so. I always used to use stone and pounds but I can’t remember why I swapped!

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SupermarketSpare7108@reddit

I prefer kg, but my mum gets annoyed when I change the scales to kg so normally stones and pound

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VSuzanne@reddit

I use KG and convert it into stone in my head. I grew up using stones, but I have a chronic illness that involves frequently updating doctors on my weight and quickly realised that they only do KG, so I've had to adapt

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No_Usual_572@reddit (OP)

I've seen a lot of comments about doctors only using KG which is interesting. I've always ever spoke to my local doctors in stones without issue.

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maxwanz@reddit

Metric is much superior so I try to use it where I can

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grouchy_fox@reddit

I was taught in stones because it's what my parents used. From looking at online weight loss stuff/progress pics I ended up using the American system of just pounds so I could understand myself in relation to what I was seeing, so I've ended up in the secret third option of 'something nobody else in this country understands'

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Disastrous_Fill_5566@reddit

Kg.

When I started running, the Fitbit and Strava apps gave me a choice. Imperial or Metric. No choice for the a random hodgepodge that is British. So I jumped entirely to Metric; since we officially started transitioning 62 years ago, I thought it was probably time.

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normannormit@reddit

kg as it's a global system of measurement. Stones and pounds make no sense.

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cybertonto72@reddit

50s and track using KG

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0s3ll4@reddit

stones for weight, kg for mass, simples

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Wonderful-Cow-9664@reddit

Stones and lbs. Im 43. Im genuinely baffled by all the Kg responses 🤣 Human weight was always in stones and lbs, we were taught it, the scales measured in it, and my scales to this day still measure in it (there might be a Kg mode on they’re-I don’t know)

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No_Usual_572@reddit (OP)

I'm pretty surprised by how many commentors have said that their scales only have KG values. I've never had a scales that doesn't change between the systems.

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Clyntus@reddit

KG, gym weights are KG and I watch strongman where they track the athletes weights in KG or pounds so much easier to keep a track of things

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No-Structure-8125@reddit

Just lbs. I used to watch a lot of American diet shows, so I understand lbs better.

Like if you said to me xyz weighs 400lbs, I'd have a pretty good idea what they'd look like. If you told me they weighed 150KG, I'd know they were big, but I wouldn't be able to picture what kind of size they are in my head.

But then when it comes to how heavy things are, I prefer kgs. If you tell me a dumbbell is 10KG, I know how heavy that's going to be and what exercises I can do with it. If you tell me it's 22lbs, I have no idea how heavy that is or what I can do with it.

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llamallamacow@reddit

I use kg as I find it easier to work out small losses/gains. However prior to doing a science degree, I did use stone. So I can understand both, I just prefer kg.

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Purple_Committee_216@reddit

Stones and pounds for me. Kg makes no sense til I convert it? Age 65 ;)

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HellPigeon1912@reddit

Mid 30s, track in Kilograms.

Tell me your weight in stone you might as well be speaking ancient greek, I have no concept of imperial weights at all

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knotatwist@reddit

How old were you when you started tracking your weight? I feel like this plays a big part.

I've got a feeling that most of the people who use kgs in their 30s weren't stepping on the home scales every day from the age of 12 and the ones using stones were

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mangonel@reddit

I suspect it's more about why than when for anyone under about 65.

If you were tracking your weight from childhood just because your boomer parents did it, then I imagine you'd use stones and pounds.

If you started as an adult because you were concerned about BMI, then probably metric.

Lots of sports have equipment configured for weight of participant, and these are normally expressed in kgs (unless it's an American manufacturer)

Similar for weight classes in combat sports. Though I imagine if you started boxing long enough in the past, you might track your weight in pounds only (no stones).

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Richard__Papen@reddit

Combat sports are in pounds aren't they?

Commentators are always going on about 135, 145, 155, 170, 205 etc etc. The kg equivalents are not rounded numbers eg 61.2, 65.8 etc

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mangonel@reddit

No.

Whole number kgs:

https://www.ijf.org/page/olympic-games-category-breakdown

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taekwondo_weight_classes

Not whole number in either system:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazilian_jiu-jitsu_weight_classes

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tMoohan@reddit

At a professional level yes, amateur is always kg

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Richard__Papen@reddit

Ok didn't know that

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Freckles93@reddit

I've struggled with eating disorders since a pre-teen, so weighed myself multiple times a day for decades now, I'm 33 now and use kg. It was stone at home, until I moved out for uni and then gym scales and weights there being in kg just made more sense.

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gotmunchiez@reddit

I feel like kilos are so much better if you're trying to lose or gain weight. Almost everyone knows how big a bag of sugar is and what it feels like to pick up, so to me it seems much easier to visualise and relate to.

My partner thinks it's really funny when she tells me how much weight one of her friends has lost and I start prattling on about how many bags of sugar it is.

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Justplaythefkngnote@reddit

Yh a bag of sugar to me was always in pounds growing up; So I also use that, but for a few pounds Loss not kg.

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Hippadoppaloppa@reddit

You got me (stones user)

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CriticalCentimeter@reddit

Im in my 50s and have tracked weight for decades.

I use kg. I've no idea about stones. I used to have, but that's in a passed life

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TravellingDoc87@reddit

I think most who exclusively use kg or are die-hard imperial users will have certain political leanings as well

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Frosty_Exit374@reddit

This right here

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kai_enby@reddit

I was obsessive about my weight as a teen and weighed myself in stones constantly. I'm now 30, barely weigh myself, and when I do it's in kg because I don't have any baggage associated with that number. I genuinely couldn't tell you my weight in stone I'd need to go convert it

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YouCantArgueWithThis@reddit

I think it's more like if you brought in the UK. The majority of the world uses kg.

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HellPigeon1912@reddit

I first started properly monitoring my weight when I was about 18/19.

But I don't think that's relevant. I've always used Kilograms even when I was a child for weighing anything (recipes, carrying stuff etc)

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No_Usual_572@reddit (OP)

Intresting. Did your parents use KG when you were growing up? I'm wondering if its perhaps just a household thing.

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Justplaythefkngnote@reddit

No. My adult kids and I have to use a converter (feels like Google translate!) when talking about weight. I think in stones, them in kg.

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Choice_Midnight1708@reddit

I changed from using stones and lbs to kg when I moved to university and the scale in the gym was in kg and everyone talked about it in the gym.

I understand children's weights in terms of stones, and adult weights in terms of kg.

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lifetypo10@reddit

Yeah I started tracking in kg when I started going to the gym, I can generally work out either though.

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Blazured@reddit

Lol I always say you can tell who goes to the gym because they measured themselves in kg.

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HellPigeon1912@reddit

No, my parents don't understand Kilograms at all. If I ever say anything about weight loss they'll ask what it is in stone and I have to tell them I have no idea and we just move on

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WillWatsof@reddit

It’s really not that hard, 1kg is 2.2lbs. I just do a quick approximate translation based on that.

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HellPigeon1912@reddit

They're the ones using measurements 50 years out of date, they can learn the conversion

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No_Usual_572@reddit (OP)

I already know the 1kg to 2.2lbs conversion, I just find it difficult to visualise bodyweight in KG instead of stones and pounds. I'd visualise 80kg as 4 20kg gym weights, but couldn't visualise state that someone 'looks 80kg'.

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Front-Pomelo-4367@reddit

Born '98, with parents born in the 60s – I use KG because it's what the doctor uses (I got weighed whenever I renewed one of my prescriptions). My family never talked about weight when I was growing up, so stone wasn't really in my vocabulary unless it was on TV or in the news. Ounces is what we used for cooking, until my mum replaced her manual scale with a digital one, but I never correlated that to stone and human weight

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CAElite@reddit

Yeah, early 30s, kg.

I know 10-13-ish stone is a normal weight, I couldn't tell you what my weight is in stone unless I converted.

Height, I know both.

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HellPigeon1912@reddit

My only frame of reference for stones is I remember Johnny Vegas doing "18 Stone of Idiot"

So I know 18 stone is a big fat guy, but have no other datapoints to extrapolate that

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CAElite@reddit

Haha same frame of reference, remember my dad taking the mick out of my uncle for being 18 stone.

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DustTechnical4561@reddit

Kg. I have no notion of what my weight is in stones. Metric wherever possible.

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Thats-right999@reddit

Stones

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MapOfIllHealth@reddit

I grew up with stones and when I was healthy I tracked in stone, but when all medical responses need to be in kg it just makes sense to switch to that.

Was still a bit weird when I had my son (overseas) and they gave me his weight in kg rather than pounds. I had zero frame of reference to know if he was a chonker or underweight lol.

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DistinctBuilder8503@reddit

41 and it's stones and lb's. If you're tracking bodyweight nothing beats lbs

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All-Hail-The-Ale@reddit

Stones and pounds, in my mid 40s.

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SearchSmart6175@reddit

kg

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IamMagnusGreel@reddit

kilos of course. I'm not american or from the 19th century.

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Albert_Herring@reddit

I don't track my weight. The only time I did was when I was going through cancer treatment, so that was in kg. I'd probably opt for stones otherwise, but I'm pretty easy either way tbh. M65.

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kipha01@reddit

Daily in KG

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Plus_Cloud_5166@reddit

1kg = 1 litre of water. It's about as simple as you can get

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Good-Lingonberry-904@reddit

I'm 16- I use exclusively pounds, I don't know what a stone is. Pounds is for people and maybe weight lifting, kg and g for everything else. Never really comes up though to be fair, outside of people

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No_Usual_572@reddit (OP)

A stone is 14 pounds. So instead of saying 'that person weighs 141 pounds' it would be that 'that person weighs 10 stones 1 pound). It just aggregates the numbers.

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Good-Lingonberry-904@reddit

Oh!

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Callis_tow@reddit

Stones and pounds, and my height is ft and inches.

I travel in miles, but cook and measure things in either metric or imperial. Temperature is Celsius

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trainpk85@reddit

I am 41 and use kg because that’s what was on the scales when I got them out the box a few years ago and I couldn’t be bothered to change it. If someone told me their weight in imperial I’d understand though cause that’s what was used when everyone was starving themselves in the late nineties.

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Free_Ad7415@reddit

Kilos and I’m 39, I’ve never used stone and pounds, I absolutely can’t visualise it. Pounds alone is even harder

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Decimsasshole@reddit

My scale measures in lbs so that’s what I use. But if I want to covert to stones it is quite simple: 14lb per stone or Divide by 2.2 for a rough kg estimate

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CumGuzlinGutterSluts@reddit

The fuck is a stone

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OkNewspaper6271@reddit

KG, though I have family who use Imperial and I know how to convert between KG and LBS off the top of my head (cant figure out stones though)

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Richard__Papen@reddit

Weight: Stones & pounds. Height: Feet & inches.

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ThisIsAnAccount2306@reddit

I don't track it. I always think of it is st and lb though.

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AdvisorEmotional8812@reddit

Always have and always will be a kg guy

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pizza-on-pineapple@reddit

I’m 30 and I use stones, but I moved to Canada a couple years ago and now I’m forced to use kg. It’s not too difficult to adjust to once you’re used to it!

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APiousCultist@reddit

I track my weight in the units my scale defaults to.

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leah_amelia@reddit

29, metric all the way. I know I’m 6ft but I measure basically everything in metric aside from driving units because they’re imperial still and the aforementioned custom of measuring height in imperial

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Trivius@reddit

Kg, I'm biased though since I work in healthcare and we need it for various calculations

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actual_tuc_biscuits@reddit

27(ish) and i used to use imperial for weight but i use kilos now because it is far easier to remember "54kg and 5ft4" than whatever the hell 54kg is in stone

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EhDinnaeEvenKen@reddit

KG, and have done for over 2 decades now.

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SarahL1990@reddit

I'm 36 and can only so stone and pounds. When I get weighed at the doctors I always have to get them to convert it, or I'll try to remember the Kg and convert it later.

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thecrius@reddit

metric system for me.

the imperial system belongs to the middle ages.

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OmmaNom@reddit

30 yo. Stones and pounds. Similarly I can't really visualise kg as well as I can stone and pounds.

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PlatinumDust324@reddit

Both

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Pircster38@reddit

Pounds

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kr4t0s2@reddit

Depends on how much each stone weights

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MilitantSheep@reddit

I know my weight in stones and kilos but for tracking weightloss kilos is so much easier.

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Morningstar976@reddit

Both

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Simon_Says_2@reddit

Stones and pounds - no idea what kg’s look or feel like!

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leafericson93@reddit

32 M. Used to use stones and pounds. I can instinctively use them quite well still. But I switched to weighing in KG a few years back. Since I don’t drive since moving to London I do everything in metric and it’s a much simpler life. All cycling, walking, and running is done in km. Cooking weights and volumes are grams and litres. Making my weigh ins metric too just makes sense.

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Jurassicjen_uk@reddit

I’m 39 and stones and pounds. I also can’t work out KG to human weight for some reason, yet use it for lifting, parcels, and suitcases etc. I’m like it with other measurements too. For example some things are cm and metres, and others are feet. Dunno it’s just how I was brought up.

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HorrorAccomplished78@reddit

Still in stones as I was brought up with British weights and measures.

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Affectionate_Feed_88@reddit

I’m used to stones but my scales are in kg. I’m in the UK, some people know stones, some know kg, so I’ve learnt to say both.. except from pounds… that’s an American thing I think

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Only_Amphibian3107@reddit

I grew up doing stones & pound but in recent years I've kinda switched to KG. But I find myself checking both. Since I've put on weight I feel less bothered when I see it in KG cause I don't fully understand what it is, just roughly. So I kid myself I'm less than I am 😅😂

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ya_basic82@reddit

St and lb. I’m 43. Kg makes no sense to me.

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gjs78@reddit

Same. I can visualise what it means when someone says they’ve lost a stone in weight, but 6.3 kgs might as well just be a number plucked from the sky…

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ya_basic82@reddit

Exactly. I get flashbacks of being shown what 1lb of fat looks like at a slimming world meeting after been on a green week and eating 3 bags of potato’s

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AvadaBalaclava@reddit

I’ve always done stones and pounds but bought some smart scales to connect to phone, they only do KG but my health app lets me show it in stones and pounds so now im finally starting to learn that I’m about 80kg

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ChrisInTyneside@reddit

72 kilos. Varied by +/- 2kilos over 30 years. I have to calculate stones

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No-Winner8975@reddit

I can use either. I used to stone and pounds for years. I'm in my mid 30s

I pretty much only use KG now though just through preference. I can convert between the two easily

Wish we could start changing from Miles to KM too. Metric is superior in every way

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89ElRay@reddit

Always Kg now, but used stones and pounds when I was younger.

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MyMaisie@reddit

I'm in my early 60's and always use stones and lbs, in England.

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DMuller23@reddit

Always Kilos now. Also helps when being on the really heavy side, you see higher numbers going down quicker and I find it more motivating on a psychological level

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no-puedo-encontrar@reddit

I think I’m odd here cause I don’t really understand KG (UK born & bred) and always used stones & lbs but then I moved abroad for a bit, set up a new iCloud and phone and it must’ve defaulted to just lbs. So now for the past 6.5 years (7.5 inc. time abroad) I’ve just used lbs without the stones to track weight.

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bee_889@reddit

Used to be stones, but I find KG easier to remember

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PotatoAwkward1586@reddit

KG, the fact the the other system needs so much explaining points to some pretty basic flaws.

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Ex_astris-scientia@reddit

I’ve not read all the comments but weird thing for most Brits we learn metric in school but still measure our hight in Ft &” measure our weight in Stones and pounds, drive by the mile and buy beer in pints. If I go for a run it’s how many KM I’ve ran, if I lift it’s how many KG, if I buy a bottle of Coke it’s how many ML or L. We literally mix both systems and it’s as mad as a box of frogs how we flip flop between both.

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Sea-Leave2077@reddit

40, switched to kg about five years ago, still pretty comfortable with stone but kg just makes more sense. I measure running in miles so consistently one system or other

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dvi84@reddit

In my 40s. Stopped using stone and pounds when I was in my teens. Don’t even understand it these days. KG only.

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Relative_Sea3386@reddit

We don't use miles, stones or inches in maths. Such a pain to convert, no idea why they are used. Might as well start counting in threes instead of 10s and zeros and decimals.

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bee_highlight@reddit

Kilograms, but only because I accidentally changed my scales to kg mode and couldn't figure out how to change them back

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ALA02@reddit

Why would I measure my weight in regional 14th century measures vs the globally established standard system specifically designed to be easy to use

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morbidcuriosity123@reddit

Stones. I have to do the math when someone says in kilos or lb. I prefer stone..

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morbidcuriosity123@reddit

Oh. And 42 years old

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ClarifyingMe@reddit

I used to do stone when I was younger. One day I was just using KG. No clue what stones implicate anymore. I can gauge pounds due to American TV.

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harryhardy432@reddit

24, use kg for the weights at the gym so only makes sense to measure myself in them as well. Strangely don't know my height in metres but don't know how to estimate distance in feet so the only thing I measure in imperial relates to me???

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One-Prior3480@reddit

50, people weight in stones. Smaller weights in kg and grams.

Do similar with temps. “It’s so hot, it’s in the 80’s, but tomorrow is set to go cold again -2 overnight!”

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IndividualCurious322@reddit

Kilograms. I'm 30.

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Heck_@reddit

Wow you must be tiny

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IndividualCurious322@reddit

I meant 30 years old ahah. But yes, I weigh very little too since I'm tall and have a fast metabolism.

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doraisexploring27@reddit

Don’t know why you were downvoted here, you were only stating a fact!

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Heck_@reddit

Haha yeah, sorry, I was just messing :)

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rdmprzm@reddit

Lol 😆

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Dietcokeisgod@reddit

Stones and pounds. I'm 35 but kg just don't translate in my head. When I had my kids they told me in pounds too.

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doraisexploring27@reddit

29 and I use both. Stones and pounds is what I’ve grown up with and am used to, but I’m under a lot of hospital care and I’m so used to medical professionals asking my weight in kg, I just remember both now.

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Lostgirl1801@reddit

I use stones and pounds I don't understand kg I'm in my 20s

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niteninja1@reddit

I used to use stone until I started tracking it regularly

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PolgaraEsme@reddit

Stones and pounds for the first 52 years of my life.
Then I started gyming.
Now everything is kg.
Single arm row 45kg…cool, half my body weight….. 🙄.
Now I have to get Alexa to convert kg to stones so I can work out what I lifted in ‘old money’.

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powpow198@reddit

Kg

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BigfatDan1@reddit

Mid 30s, weight has always been in stone and lbs/ozs, but I don't know why as obviously KG is easier. Mom and Gran always used imperial so it just kind of stuck with me. We measure our baby in lbs for his weight tracking too.

Everything else is metric except miles I think

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Left_Set_5916@reddit

I don't track my weight but if did probably kg but for actually thinking about it's stones for me

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Sensitive-Vast-4979@reddit

Teenager , stone for my weight , everything else kilo

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jellybeanmusic@reddit

I’m 45, I also use pounds and stones

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Rasty_lv@reddit

I'm foreigner, so for me its metric. Kg's. If anyone mentions me stones or pounds I get this dumbfounded face. I can't ever learn conversions.

Miles is only one I forced myself to learn due to driving here in the UK.

Anything else, metric.

Oh, and pints. I know pints lol.

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ggssmm1@reddit

Question: how do you learn a new / different measurement system?

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adreddit298@reddit

Lbs is easy, multiply by 2, then by 10, then add another 10%

Stones is awkward, you have to divide lbs by 14, which is useless to anybody.

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johan_kupsztal@reddit

Also a foreigner. Pint of beer is the only imperial unit I prefer!

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roja_85@reddit

As long as it's a British pint (568ml), a US pint is only 473ml!

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Additional-Ask-5512@reddit

That 68ml extra (over a continental pint/half litre) goes a long way!

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Harry-666666@reddit

59 year old Brit & I’m the same. Miles for driving & pints for drinking. Everything else is metric. Imperial is just daft.

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smb3something@reddit

It's approx 2.2 pounds to KG. (2.20462 to be exact) - so that's a fairly easy conversion. Fuck stone tho.

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DTH2001@reddit

I’m UK born and raised, but also pretty much have only use imperial for driving and drinking (not at the same time)

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CillaBlackInDisguise@reddit

Both. Just not pounds only. Always done this in Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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fridgezebra@reddit

kg late 40s

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domingo6220@reddit

I'm 36. Weight in KG, height in cm; and when I get I to power, driving distance will be in kilometres

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VFrosty3@reddit

40s, have tracked in kgs for about 20-odd years. Was stone/lbs before that.

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swordoftruth1963@reddit

Kg and I am 62. My Dad used kg when asked at his last hospital appointment at the age of 90

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mrkingkoala@reddit

Kg now.

Just makes sense

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kazxam@reddit

Mid 30s here and I weigh myself in stones/lbs.

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caspararemi@reddit

KG here too. Has been for years. My siblings still use lbs - my sister keeps telling me what she's lost on her mounjaro and I just smile and look impressed. I also use km for distances which I know is a bit unusual, but I used to run and it was just easier when doing 5 and 10k runs, then it was just easier to do it for everything.

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Isgortio@reddit

KG, because stone is nonsense. Also, gym equipment is in KG. I want to know if I'm lifting more than my own bodyweight or not, I can't figure that out on the fly if I weigh myself in stone.

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ConsciouslyIncomplet@reddit

Kg

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1kBabyOilBottles@reddit

kg, I grew up in Australia though

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zah_ali@reddit

I track my weight in lbs, and use kg in the gym. Weird I know — it’s just what I’m used to now

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freexe@reddit

I track my own weight in kg, but can only compare other people's weight in stone. I have no idea what a 20 or 8 or 13 stone person is in kg, but I intrinsically know what they weigh in my head.

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cavendishasriel@reddit

Mid 40s, I use metric for my weight (due to a cycling metric of watts per kg) but imperial for my height 🤷

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rebelallianxe@reddit

Stones and pounds, am 49.

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Valisksyer@reddit

Both

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Fehnder@reddit

Mid 30s and I use kg. I don’t know why, I have to covert it to stone every time

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tennisstar04@reddit

Straight lbs

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ExternalNational@reddit

KG or Stones

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Alert_Mine7067@reddit

I used to use stone and pounds, recently I've been using KG instead, I do like to know what it is in stone and pounds too though. When I weigh in KG and the screen does that thing where it locks the weight, then I pick them up and cycle from KG through to stone and pounds.

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Pineneedle_coughdrop@reddit

Stones and pounds. Kg is confusing AF for me.

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International-You-13@reddit

I use Kg, born in the 1970s, raised and educated entirely in the UK.

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xxxxxxxxxooxxxxxxxxx@reddit

I emigrated to the US so my scale is in lb and then I ask Siri to convert it to KG to make sure I’m not too fat.

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skilless@reddit

Kilograms for modernity

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Brilliant_Sound_5565@reddit

Kg, I used to use stones when I was younger but I stopped it as it was just odd and everything else I weighed in kg so why not myself

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Rubytitania@reddit

Neither really - I mostly use just pounds, although I do know my weight in stones & pounds too. I only have a vague idea of what it is in kg.

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reverandglass@reddit

43, switch to kg when I went over 220lbs. If I get back under I'll switch back to stones and pounds.
It's good to know the metric for doctors, but feet, inches, stones and pounds make so much more sense.

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toonlass91@reddit

Kg but mainly because I work in healthcare

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FortiFied_Concept98@reddit

Stone is approx 6.5 kg

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Zubi_Q@reddit

KG

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Ryohiko@reddit

Stones and pounds I think in first but I understand KG, I’m 28.

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M_E_F_E_@reddit

Both. Then I decide which number I prefer the look of.

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Aggressive_Chuck@reddit

Pounds. More progress than kilos.

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-mmmusic-@reddit

20, i use kg. i was never taught stones and pounds so i have no idea how much they actually are!!

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n3m0sum@reddit

Born 72, so I still use stones and pounds, when I bother checking my weight.

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CurrentSandwich541@reddit

I use KG and also know lbs but stone means absolutely nothing to me lol

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Theallseer97@reddit

I do both but prefer KG.

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Metrobolist3@reddit

Mid 40s so was taught metric in school but Imperial by my parents. So I use stones and pounds for body weight and g and kg for everything else.

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EmiaraUK@reddit

Late 40’s and same 😂

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slangivar@reddit

Milk and glasses of beer come in pints while other liquids are measured in litres, including bottled beer.

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johnnycarrotheid@reddit

41 and exact same here

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KingPing43@reddit

Same, I've forced myself to use metric though recently as the imperial system just seems to outdated and archaic.

I've managed to wrap my head round using KG for bodyweight, but I still struggle with metres/centimetres for height. I have to mentally convert in my head, like 1.83m = 6ft etc..

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Metrobolist3@reddit

Also measure my height in feet and inches and everything else in cm and meters.

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Flaky-Delivery-8460@reddit

Similar age and same sort of thing, except I now track my weight in lbs. This is because I'm trying to keep it fairly stable but I have a habit of losing too much weight. If I lose 1kg that's a significant impact on my training but 1 or 2lbs is just okay and I can correct easily.

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Worldly_Wafer_6635@reddit

This is the official British answer.

Its not 2 systems, its 1... The British system.

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kasialis721@reddit

Kilos

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Dr-dog-dick@reddit

I know what I weigh in both, but I only know what I can lift in kg.

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Ashamed_Housing7489@reddit

Stones and lbs

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Dalhoos@reddit

KG

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Bubble-Master96@reddit

Stone for my weight, kg for my weed

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InsideOutCosmonaut@reddit

It was stone until i became an adult and figures like height and weight became more important.

Transitioning was such a smooth experience, I genuinely have no clue how previous generations struggled

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tygeorgiou@reddit

when asked or asking about weight, stones is easier to understand as light or heavy

but when tracking weight gain / loss, it's easier in stone

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Complifusedx@reddit

KG (in my early 30s) stone and pounds mean absolutely nothing. KG makes so much sense I don’t get people who don’t use it!

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Broken_Lampshade@reddit

Kg (and height in cm if you're curious). I'm 17

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Educational_Worth906@reddit

Mid 50s. Stones, feet & inches for height and miles per gallon are all imperial measurements for me. Everything else is in metric which I prefer using, I just can’t switch those other ones over.

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Kvark33@reddit

Late 20's/early 30's, I always use lbs. Think this is purely from watching a lot American sports, mainly college football and NFL along with tracking calories and macro's.

I can just visualize lbs easier.

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hephos90@reddit

I'm the same! I'm also a similar age, and probably started because I used a lot of American sites (or a site with lots of Americans) when I got into fitness. Although mine was WWE and not football.

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iaderia@reddit

Same here. I use straight lbs or kgs. Lbs because of american infiltration into my brain. No idea about stones! But everyone around me IRL uses stones…

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Kvark33@reddit

Yeah, for example, if someone says they do a 80kg bench, I know how heavy that is, but can also roughly figure out poundage, 170-185ish, if someone was to say I weigh 76kg, no change. Stone is just divided by 14 I think.

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BlackCatWitch29@reddit

Stones and pounds

But my phone's health app deals in only pounds or kilos so I do have to use both.

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r99c@reddit

Stones & pounds - born in 1991

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LochNessMother@reddit

Kg. I’m in my 50s

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simmeh-chan@reddit

On a “weight loss journey” and mostly use just lbs. I feel like I have the best frame of reference for it in my mind, and they’re smaller so I get to lose more of them lol.

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MediumAutomatic2307@reddit

I track in lbs, and I’m approaching 50. Mostly because 105lbs sounds better to my ears than 7st7 (and 47kg just doesn’t “sound” right at all) 😅

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No_Application_8698@reddit

I am painfully aware of my failures in both Kg and stones/pounds. I am in my mid-forties so I am 'bilingual' in weights and measures.

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Luna259@reddit

Kilograms

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Xaphios@reddit

I'm 37, and use kg. My other half is 35 and uses stone. I used to use stone but found I was only using it for weight of people, so anything that took weight of anything else as well (total vehicle weight for example) needed conversion.

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MiotRoose@reddit

Kilos because the first time I was weighed at the GP they told me my weight in kg. That was at about 18 so it helps me compare across my adult life

I do occasionally convert to stone and lbs though just for a rough idea

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Capable_Tip7815@reddit

Kilos and I am 47.

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Didymograptus2@reddit

Track in kilos, late 60s, but when someone (American) talks about a weight in pounds I divide by 14 to understand it.

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tk1178@reddit

I'm 45 and I have always weighed myself in stones and pounds, however I have noticed that my GP and doctors will ask for weight in Kilos so I've started to notice the kilo line on my scales, meaning I can see that I am both 10 stone or around 65 kg. My brother, who is 4 years younger, always gave his weight in kilos which always had me asking/wondering what it was in stone/lbs.

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Happy_Craft14@reddit

Mid 20's, always been using kg

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Opening_Nose_2347@reddit

I'm 66, I prefer imperial but about 20 years ago the GPs wanted it in metric so I changed; don't even know what I am in imperial anymore.

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QueefInMyKisser@reddit

GPs are too thick to convert units?

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Opening_Nose_2347@reddit

Incompetence is highly valued in all services.

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DescriptionFuture851@reddit

I treat pounds the same way I treat celsius.

I like making things as simple as possible, I don't like doing a bunch of unnecessary maths.

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Dd_8630@reddit

Mid 30s. Kilos for me. I can convert it to lbs if I need to, but it's metric all the way baby.

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Creative-Solution@reddit

Grew up using stones, but taught myself KGs a few years ago because I wanted to know what the YouTubers I watched were talking about

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GLS1994@reddit

My family always weighed in stones so I did too for body weight. I’m a nurse and have to convert because I have no idea about kg or pounds. Funnily enough I understand grams for cooking/baking. Guess it’s a weird dyscalculia quirk.

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Dramatic-Ad-4607@reddit

Im 32 and track in stones.. its how ive always tracked it and it makes the most sense to me personally

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Emotional_Pick9327@reddit

Stones and pound for me , but am an a old git sixties

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vulvaic@reddit

I track in lbs because I feel like that’s the most simple and accurate for me but I know the conversions to kg and stones so I can visualize all three. I notice younger people (20’s and 30’s) tend to use kg if they lift weights at the gym, older people use stones.

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Hippadoppaloppa@reddit

In my 40s and I use stone & pounds. My husband is the same age & uses kg.

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washyourgoddamnrice@reddit

For me it's contextual maybe it's because of the gym life but I can picture what a certain amount of kg is and then of your talking about weight loss it's easier to for to visualise lbs but if talking to a person and they ask my weight I'd either say kg or stone

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AsleepContact4340@reddit

I’m 36 and used stones until late high school and switched to kg.

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Paulstan67@reddit

Stones and pounds.

I'm of the age that we were taught both imperial and metric at school and I use both systems.

With the exception of peoples weight.

I just have no comprehension of how heavy/large a 70 kilo person is, or a 160lb person but I do know 12 stone.

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DarthScabies@reddit

I lived abroad for a while in Central Europe so had to learn to use kilograms for my weight and centimeters for my height. Can happily switch between the two now.

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crispycat40@reddit

Kg nowadays. I’m 41.

I’ve always measured my children in kg and have no idea what they weigh in imperial. So it made sense to swap over for myself too.

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Alternative-Sea-6238@reddit

The UK officially went metric in the 1980s, I think. Metric is so much easier in terms of calculations and safety in many areas. Unfortunately the idea that people can't visualise what x kg equates to does mean so many people cling to the outdated system, and it gets reinforced when one generation teaches the next in imperial.

I measure weight in kg, runs in km and volumes in litres. If you struggle with the visualisation of what x kg is, but you know what 12 stone 11 lbs is, then you also know what 81 kg is. If you lose 13 kg, 81-13= 68kg.

Much easier than working out if you lose 13 lbs, then that means you are now 12 stone 11lbs, which is 14x12=168, -11 = 157lbs, which is 157/14= 11.21 stones. 0.21 stones = 0.21 x 14 = 2.94 = 3 lbs therefore new weight is 11 stone 3 lbs. Or you could go American and state everything in lbs only.

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Superb-Ad-8823@reddit

Ib's me

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shoxwut@reddit

Early 30s, kg now. Height in cm. Am somewhat hopeful we switch to a full metric system eventually, but can appreciate how much work that would involve.

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ignatiusjreillyXM@reddit

50, kg. Not what I grew up with but fundamentally the metric system is way easier to use

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JamesH93@reddit

Nope, do you?

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SilverellaUK@reddit

Stones and pounds. Far too many of them.

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ElectronicBrother815@reddit

Stones and lbs. Mid 40’s. Starting regularly weighing as a teen so that’s my frame of reference.

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anabsentfriend@reddit

My weight in Stones/Lbs. The weight of everything else KG/Grams.

My friend who's into health and fitness uses KG.

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Norklander@reddit

I use Kg and I’m over 40. I run in KM not miles but that probably because I can’t run miles

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oligogaming@reddit

I’m 36 next week and growing up it was stones but when I discovered Weightlifting as my hobby and everything was in Kg I mentally started working in Kg for my own weight too. So much so that I’ve sort of lost the internal conversion chart at the scale of typical adult weights. When looking for an extra few kg to put on a bar if I find weights with lbs written on I know what I’m using without thinking, if it’s in a fancier gym it’s all colour coded anyway

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mr-ajax-helios@reddit

Stones and pounds as a teenager, but nowadays I use KG. It's just easier, I measure everything else in KG. But still use feet and inches for height

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dweedman@reddit

29 - I used stones before we switched to electric scales maybe a decade ago.

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Physical-Crow-2154@reddit

42 and use stones and pounds.

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BoringGazelle1654@reddit

I’m Polish, but I’ve lived in Uk for most of my life (I’m 30 now) and I’ve always used kg. I could never get used to using stones or pounds 😭

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Intruder313@reddit

KG. Metric is always objectively better except where we have stuck to miles for distances - simply because it would cost too much to change them all.

I used to know my height and weight in Imperial but by tracking in Metric I soon got used to them instead.

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ExultentPisces@reddit

I don’t track my weight at all. That way, I weight the same now as I did 10 years ago. I’m a genius.

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FlatTyres@reddit

Kilograms for me. I use metric for everything. I even convert miles and mph to kilometres and km/h in my head (I still don't drive even at 32). I hope one day we'll finally officially end our partial retention of imperial measurements in this country, although I'm fine with traditional pints of beer being served in pubs, but I wouldn't complain if other establishments that were licenced to serve alcoholic drinks switched to serving poured drinks 50 cl and 25 cl glasses.

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grepusman@reddit

Just pounds. No need to mix pounds and stone when a single unit handles it.

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Programmer-Severe@reddit

Do you measure things in feet and inches?

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grepusman@reddit

About half the time. Miles too. Or kilometres.

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Lowermains@reddit

Every time I have my weight checked (t2D), at the GP or hospital they give me it in kg. I then have to ask them to convert it to stones, pounds and ounces. 😹

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jowalowl@reddit

I'm 30 and have always used stones and pounds.

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herwiththepurplehair@reddit

I still weigh myself in stones and pounds, I'm 57 and I still give my height in feet and inches too although I know that there are 2.2 pounds to a kilo so I can do a rough guesstimate of what that translates to. I cook in grams and kilograms though; I'm of the age where my parents worked only in imperial measurements, and my kids were schooled only in metric measurements, and I kind of occupy some weird in between space where I can do both.

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Agitated_Ad_361@reddit

Stones and pounds, in my 30’s. Fun trick though, if you’re struggling to lose weight and certain weights hold negative emotional value to you or psychological barriers, start weighing with the other units to remove the stigmas. Worked a charm for me.

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Silver_Adagio138@reddit

70 and kilos all the way. So much easier

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FakeNathanDrake@reddit

Stone and pounds for humans, kg for animals for some reason.

I'm in my mid 30s (fortunately age, not stone or kg).

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EdanE33@reddit

I used to in stone but then my lodger brought his scales set to kg and now I use that out of habit

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DinkyPrincess@reddit

I can do both. We were of course taught metric in school and the GP etc now will measure in kg but it was only maybe 10 years ago I would still see scales in stones and pounds.

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Traditional_Fox2428@reddit

Stones and pounds. I’m 35-40 age range.

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Amzy29@reddit

I used to do stones, I think that’s because my parents used to use that. Now I use KG. I have no idea what the equivalent is anymore though.

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Alone_Fisherman_874@reddit

kg just doesn’t click in my head. I prefer pounds

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zxwablo2840@reddit

Kg, as that's what the nurse does it in, which is the only time I ever get weighed. I'm a young adult

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Main_Protection8161@reddit

I'm 52 and check my weight in kg.

I never paid much notice of my weight until I got a bit larger in my mid 40s.

Which probably accounts for the reason why I don't think in stones. Having said that I've been a pretty "obsessive" cook since my late teens, and never used pounds and ounces.

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QuantumWaffle4@reddit

29 and st & lbs

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agentrossi176@reddit

Stones and pounds in my head, pure pounds for actual measurements because that's what the app I use requires (feels annoying and Americanised to me). I have no in built feeling for kgs in relation to myself, I feel like metric is for cooking & baking, not people. I'm f, mid 30s.

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MonsterRavingLlamas@reddit

Kilos for me. I can vaguely understand stone but i have to convert it pounds and then to kilos so it's not particularly efficient. Most people i know use stone and pounds so i guess i'm just a weird outlier.

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JemimaHippo@reddit

Millennial here 👋 Human weight in stones and pounds Food weight in grams Milk and beer in pints All other liquids in ml People height in feet and inches Everything else height in cm / m Distance by car miles Distance running km

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beeruk@reddit

Typically people who gym tend to know their weight in KG but most know both

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britinnit@reddit

35 and I've only ever known Stones.

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Physical-Bear2156@reddit

Kg for me.

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boredmoonface@reddit

Just pounds. I grew up using stone and pounds but switched to just pounds as it’s easier. Also used to watch a lot of American shows like my 600lb life and similar make it easy for me to visualise what different weights look like using pounds.

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Dependent_Worry7499@reddit

I weigh myself in Stones & lbs but lift weights in kg

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Jake613@reddit

I’m in my sixties. I use metric for pretty much everything.

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Live-Independent-416@reddit

Both

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OutdoorApplause@reddit

I use kg, precisely for the reason that I can't visualise it. There's no baggage for me with a particular number in kg like I have in stones from years of disordered eating and dieting and media as a teen.

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Red_Galaxy746@reddit

Mid 40s. I still use pounds and stones and measure in feet and inches.

All this kg and cm bollocks is meaningless to me.

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LunaAndStevie@reddit

kgs, 29!

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LemmysCodPiece@reddit

Mid 50s and I use metric for everything. I went to school in the late 70s/80s. I was never taught to use imperial measurements and I have never used them in a work setting.

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Bgtobgfu@reddit

40s and Kg

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ThatBurningDog@reddit

I don't. But if I were to, I'd use metric; much easier numbers to actually do arithmetic on if I needed it.

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KirbyWarrior12@reddit

Kilos, I'm 23. Could never get my head around stones and pounds, always found kg simpler and easier.

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JohnArcher965@reddit

Kg - 30yo

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Ihavethepoweeeeeeer@reddit

Stones and pounds. Roughly know what i am in KG if I need to say.

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First_Acanthaceae446@reddit

I don't know when it changed ? I was born in 2000, and growing up weight was always in stones, but all of a sudden it seems to have changed ? I am with you... I can not for the like of me visual KG

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sodium_geeK@reddit

Kg as for me I worked out my average daily calorie deficit over a single week equates quite closely to grams of weight lost.

So If I’m -1000kcal on average over seven days I’ll have lost about 1000g (1kg) by the eighth day.

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Flugelhaw@reddit

I prefer kg, but can translate fluently between that and stones and pounds.

Being able to make the conversions quickly in your head between imperial and metric can be useful in everyday life, it can be a neat party trick, it can bridge the gap when talking to people of different generations or nationalities, and it keeps your brain and your mental maths reasonably sharp. It's a relatively simple skill worth practising if you possibly can :)

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cmrndzpm@reddit

I’m in my late 20s, stones and pounds for me. I’m the same as you, can’t visualise what kilograms look like.

I also have no idea about kilometres and only really understand in the context of miles. Though I couldn’t tell you what a yard is.

Our mixed system is very weird!

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PinkandTwinkly@reddit

LBs normally

I can go lbs or stone (as in a can visualise it)

KGs confuses the heck out of me. If someone told me they weighed 150kg it'd mean nothing. It's that big, small etc

I'm 45

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Sea-Hamster7033@reddit

I used to deal in Stones and Lbs but I got cancer and every time the doctors weighed me before/after chemo or asked what I weighed, lbs was how they operated, so it was easier.

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abyssal-isopod86@reddit

Kg as that's what my GP does.

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sc00022@reddit

Used to do stones and pounds but switched to kgs as found it a bit more intuitive and found more people understand kgs. Think it’s still worth knowing both or at least how to convert from one to the other.

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strodey123@reddit

34 and KG.

Never understood stones and pounds. Sounds better if you've lost weight though haha

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Pizzagoessplat@reddit

I'm 43 and use KG it just makes better sense to me.

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adreddit298@reddit

Kg for me, it's just easier in my brain. Although I'm ok at mental maths, so can convert that to lbs, and from there to stone.

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Prof_Hentai@reddit

I’m at the point of using tonnes now

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coomzee@reddit

Metric or imperial

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Illustrious-Divide95@reddit

Metric or Imperial? 😉

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PositivelyAcademical@reddit

Tonnes is always metric. Tons can either mean long/imperial tons or short tons.

Conventions in international shipping are weird. A ship’s displacement (the actual weight of the ship) will either be given in tonnes or tons, while a ship’s deadweight (how much stuff it can hold) will either be given in tonnes or tons. It’s the reader’s responsibility to know the convention that long tons are used for displacement and short tons for the cargo.

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Illustrious-Divide95@reddit

This was the reply I was hoping for. You didn't disappoint!

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BadMachine@reddit

glad they’re metric tonnes

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Alive_Ice7937@reddit

Relevant username

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Prof_Hentai@reddit

tips fedora

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Alive_Ice7937@reddit

Dips sombrero more like

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dinkingdonut@reddit

46 and use stones and pounds. Although if talking about flour then grams and kg.

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SwordTaster@reddit

Stone where possible, but living in the US makes that tricky so straight up pounds is the usual way. I'm 32.

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NoRun6253@reddit

Both.

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Jumpy-Jello-@reddit

St/lbs

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toady89@reddit

Mid 30s and I use kg, was brought up with stone but I switched when I bought my own scales as an adult. I'd weigh backpacks or gym weights in kg so it makes sense to have a frame of reference that matches.

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wondered-bongo@reddit

Stones and pounds. Its just the way its always been for me!

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Mac4491@reddit

Stones and pounds for people. Kg and g for everything else.

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NoodleDoodlesocks@reddit

I'm just young enough to have been taught metric at school. My brother, 5 years older than me only knows imperial.

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poshbakerloo@reddit

I use both, KG for gym equipment and St + Lbs for me. I find KG too much for my weight, losing 2 lbs is a good amount, grams are too small!

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oddball2194@reddit

I'm 31. When I was growing up I'd use stone and pounds but now use kg. Not sure when/why that change happened lol. I live abroad now though with my social circle being made up of people from around the world, so maybe that has something to do with it? I still use stones when speaking to my parents and other Brits my age or older though.

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Emergency-Nebula5005@reddit

Stones + pounds.

However, while at the vets, my little dog was weighed at 5kg.

So now if anyone gives their weight in kg, I think, oh yeah, that's like 17 small dogs.

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129sapphires@reddit

For some reason, when I was in my 20s, I used stones and pounds, but now I’m in my 50s, it’s kilograms! 😂

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sapphire-sky-dragon@reddit

Im 51 and its stones for my weight yet I weigh my dogs/food in kg 🤷‍♀️ I just cant work it out in kg for mysekf though.

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KatVanWall@reddit

I'm 46 (years). I was raised using stones+pounds. However, since about mid-30s I've known my weight in kg as it's taken in kg the rare times I've been in a medical setting. However, I don't have a scale at home so I have no preference and am equally comfortable with both. I know what kind of range my weight should be in for both.

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racing_hemp@reddit

I track my weight in pounds(£) more money means more Greggs means more weight

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Plumb121@reddit

Belt notches

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Scottie99@reddit

Stones and pounds but I’m old school.

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LocalMendicant@reddit

Late 50s. I mostly use KGs now, but I convert it to stones and pounds in my head as that's what I used to use most of my life.

I know roughly what it is in pounds too but that would be very much my third thought.

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ZanaZoola14@reddit

In my 20s and I use kg, I just cannot process stones and pounds easily. Although I do roughly know my weight that way as well.

It's also useful when I teach watersports and buoyancy aids use kg for weight limits on them, so easier to know your weight in kg for that.

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katharinelouise@reddit

Stone and lbs for me, because that's what I was brought up on. Kilograms mean nothing to me!

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Ricky_Martins_Vagina@reddit

I'm 37 and speak in kg. I grew up on 'stone' so can generally visualise it but just find it pointless.

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EatingCoooolo@reddit

Kilograms only, not sure what lbs are even.

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KeyJunket1175@reddit

What's funny to me is that the fuel station pumps are in litres, the you guys go on and talk about consumption in miles per gallon. Absolute chaos.

The present is calling, time to get rid of BS units and use SI like every other European nation.

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squigs@reddit

We do use the same units as everyone else for the most part. Legally, it's just miles on roads, and pints for beer and milk. And apparently acres can be used for land.

It would make sense to use miles on roads, but there isn't any political will for it.

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TravellingDoc87@reddit

A lot of products are still sold in imperial quantities but are sold in gram equivalents anyway.

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squigs@reddit

True. Not sure why they don't do that with milk and beer to be honest.

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TravellingDoc87@reddit

Litres per 100km is a BS unit if ever there was one

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KeyJunket1175@reddit

It's entirely subjective, it's a bi-directional measure of efficiency, either way works. I.e. how far can I go with x fuel vs. how much fuel do I burn if I go x far. The discrepancy I meant is how you fill your fuel tank in litres then measure fuel efficiency in a random unit, gallons.

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TravellingDoc87@reddit

It is more relevant to measure fuel efficiency by measuring how far one particular unit of fuel will take you, rather than how much fuel you will need to go a particular distance.

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KeyJunket1175@reddit

Unless the cost of the travel interests you, e.g. because you are on a budget or you are calculating logistics for your semi truck :)

It's just a social norm which perspective you grow up with, mind you, everybody else on the continent uses l/100km as a reference.

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TravellingDoc87@reddit

The cost of the fuel is the main reason for being curious about fuel efficiency readings, hence why litres per 100km is just a weird metric

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Illustrious_Study_30@reddit

Mid 50s. I track in kgs but I'm a Brit so I find I have to convert that for everyone else. The older gens here has stone

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Disastrous-Place-846@reddit

Neither, I don't weigh myself

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slimboyslim9@reddit

Surprised I had to scroll so far to find a kindred spirit. Fuck knows, I don’t own scales and don’t really care.

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Laescha@reddit

Yeah. Occasionally I get asked my weight, and I don't know, so I'm asked to guess, and I just have to explain that I have literally no idea how these numbers relate to people. You could tell me any number and I'd accept it, you might as well ask me how many red blood cells I think I have.

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Intelligent-Leg-3862@reddit

All my friends and I use KG

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fotfddtodairsizr@reddit

If

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Feeling-Medium-7856@reddit

In my thirties - Kg. I’m vaguely aware of stones but kg is way easier to follow and express accurately.

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cinesister@reddit

lbs because I lived in the States and that’s when I started really paying attention to my weight. Stones and kg I have to use a convertor because my brain thinks in lbs. Mid 40s.

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prustage@reddit

I am 70 years old and have always tracked my weight in kilograms. I cannot visualize stones and pounds. I am surprised that you are different. When I took my GCSEs (then "GCE"s) it was the first year that all the questions were in metric. We had to go through a quick "conversion" program in the previous year where we stopped using bizarre units such as "foot poundals" etc in physics and got used to metric instead.

On that basis, I can understand why anyone older than me still uses imperial units, but younger? That makes no sense. Surely you were taught in metric at school so what made you start using old pre-1970 units?

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Amanensia@reddit

Kg, and I’m 55.

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Vertigo_uk123@reddit

troy oz because my mummy says i'm precious

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kzymyr@reddit

Pounds. For the micro-wins.

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HarB_Games@reddit

I'm 22, I have always used stones and pounds, so has my Mrs who is 21.

However recently (last two years) we've started transitioning to using kg more

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max1304@reddit

56 and metric all the way. I don’t have a concept of if 16 stone is enormous or just a normal bloke.

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Gornal-Annie6133@reddit

Yep, I can swap between the two, as I was 8 when decimalisation hit the UK. I prefer stones, pounds and feet and inches but I cook and bake with grams, easily converted when using old recipe books. 63 years of age btw.

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Edible_Magician@reddit

Mid 30s always used stone and pounds for as long I can remember

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ununpentium89@reddit

For body weight, I only know what stones and pounds means exactly. Yet doctors now like to use kg, and I'm always baffled when they say a number, until I can Google what it is in stone.

When I bake though, I measure in g and kg.

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Sparko_Marco@reddit

Mid 40s and its stone and pounds for me, always has been. I still need to google to convert kgs to stone and pounds to work out peoples actual weights. I also use feet and inches for height rather then cms.

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tay-tay-hay@reddit

I’m 33 and husband is 35 and we both use stone. My friend of same age uses KG. I have a fleeting idea.

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gameovervip@reddit

Used to do stone then I did pounds now I’m on to kg

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simundo86@reddit

Pounds like a boxer trying to make a weight limit

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RedHairedRob@reddit

I use KG in the 30-35 age range

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BreqsCousin@reddit

I'm on some medication that requires me to track my weight right now, and I'm using kg, because thinking about pounds reminds me of the 90s and unhealthy dieting practises.

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CriticalCentimeter@reddit

In contrast, the 90s reminds me of mdma over consumption and days without eating!

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CrazyMike419@reddit

Started with stone. Switched to kg about a decade or two ago. Pretty much always used metric form other measures (including weights). I can flip between the 2 measuring systems pretty easily.

Mid 40s

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eilb3@reddit

I use KG’s. Using stones makes me feel bad about the number. Using KGs lets me focus on making it lower without beating myself. I know I can easily work it into stone but KG’s keeps me focused without me feeling bad about myself so I prefer it.

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elmundio87@reddit

I weigh myself in st/lb and everything else in kg

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Janjannaj@reddit

I am in my 50s. and I use kg.

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CriticalCentimeter@reddit

50s kg gang unite!

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Bunister@reddit

Me too, but my mate who's younger than me still uses stones. Kg just seems neater to me.

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Do_not_use_after@reddit

Mid 60s, I use Kg for my weight. However, when I cook I use grams for most things, but ounces for anything that contains flour, cos 2 oz per person is usually about right. For cooking with milk (usually soya milk) the weights are not enough / ok / too much.

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Pat8aird@reddit

Stones and Pounds. 42yo, if that matters.

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waxfutures@reddit

Early 40s, stones and pounds exclusively.

I work in healthcare admin and see patient weights listed in kg, and have a conversion chart for when it's given in stone, but still I can't visualise kg weights. If someone said they're 15 stone I can picture that, but if that same person said they're 95kg I wouldn't have a clue.

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lanky_doodle@reddit

I'm in UK where we usually use stones and pounds but when I set Garmin to that notarion, it wants weight training values in the same notation (wtf - it's completely alien to me to say "I can lift X stone Y pounds").

So had to set it to kg for weight training. This was many years ago and just got used to it. No idea if you can finally set different notations for different things.

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MagMadPad@reddit

I switched to KGs when I started losing weight, I needed something that I didn't understand as much to keep track without the added guilt of being X stones.

Late 30s (years, not stone)

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ramapyjamadingdong@reddit

So, being 1 week into a diet, last week I stood on scales and typed kg into my app, begore checking what that meant in old money. Then I planned how much to lose in kg.

Next up, I weighed in and wrote the new weight in, saw 1.6kg lost, which I can visualise in bags of sugar. Then I checked what that was in lb, saw it was 3lbs, which seemed like a good start, even though I have no idea what a lb is.

My height is no better. I'm 184cm, I took my waist, hip and thigh measurements in cm, but if you're asking, I'm 6ft!

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Maester_Magus@reddit

KG. Just makes much more sense to me and it's easier to visualise. Same with food – I never measure anything in cups, ounces, sticks, fingers or anything else. They're all nonsensical to me.

Plus, strength training is a hobby of mine and all my weights / records are in kilograms; makes sense to apply that to my own weight.

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Benoit_85@reddit

I’m 41, always used stone. I’m also a Celsius man for my temperatures but my parents in their 60’s use Fahrenheit

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Warrior_king99@reddit

Stones and pounds, its what my scales tell me 🤷

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idontlikemondays321@reddit

Mid 30s - it’s stones for weight, kg for baking, feet for height, metres for short distances. Miles/KM can go either way.

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elvpak@reddit

40 and still use stones and pounds.

To me it seems like it’s not really generational but more to do with using kg in an everyday life situation that makes people switch (eg going to the gym or weight regularly checked by their doctor). As of now I haven’t had a practical reason to switch.

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WilliamShaunson@reddit

KG as I'm not from the Victorian period

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Frugal500@reddit

Kilos. 2 kilo is a 2 litre bottle of lemonade…

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onlysmaller@reddit

36yrs old, growing up was always stones and pounds. But since getting a dog and starting a weight loss journey in the last couple years use kg. The vet uses kg and they make more sense I think.

Everyone I work with when asking about my weight loss asks me to covert it though lol. Even the 28 yr old. Except the guy whose main hobby is exercise, weight loss and stuff he doesn’t need conversion.

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TW1103@reddit

Both. I always tracked in stones and pounds, but I recently joined Man v Fat who measure in KGs

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SceneDifferent1041@reddit

I use KG because it's what Hospitals use.

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Several-Bluebird-199@reddit

i am 20 and have always tracked my weight in just pounds. everyone says it’s weird, but it’s just because that’s what my scale happened to be set to when i first tried to loose my weight. too late to switch to kg now, i’ll never get used to it 😭

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butterscotchwhip@reddit

Born in the 1970s, grew up in the UK with stones, never had idea what a kg looks/feels like. But I’ve been living across the pond (Canada) for 20yrs and now I’ve forgotten what a stone looks/feels like, it’s all pounds for me now. It’s weird how everyone knows their weight here, it was even required on my Canadian passport form at one point (but thankfully not on the passport itself!). You see it on police bulletins - “suspect was 180lbs”. How do they know??

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Amarita_Sen@reddit

KG, because while I was starting out on my fitness journey I didn't know what they meant, and thus I couldn't judge myself. All I saw were numbers changing, without any emotional value attached to a target.

Unfortunately I've been using KG long enough to have figured them out :(

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jvlomax@reddit

Kgs. I can do lbs in my head, but no idea what a stone is.

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roufnjerry@reddit

Kg. Stopped using imperial weights over 12 years ago

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BallsDeepInBoris@reddit

Digestives

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ARK_Redeemer@reddit

I'm 28, I use Stone and Pounds for weighing people, but metric for weighing out ingredients/objects (though I do still use Imperial measuring spoons when needed)

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GreenDolphinGal@reddit

I’m in my late 20s and I use KG to track my weight but only because I have no idea what KG actually are (like you, I can’t visualise 90kg vs 14 stone) so I don’t “know” how much I weigh (ie whether I’m heavier than I want to be), and I can focus on tracking whether I lose/gain weight rather than obsessing over not being the “ideal weight”

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PUSH_AX@reddit

3,450,000,000 Planck masses

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MeltingChocolateAhh@reddit

Kilograms, I did use stone when I was a kid but I don't remember why kg made sense.

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SigourneyReap3r@reddit

I am 36.
Weights themselves I use KG.
My body weight I use lbs which I then convert to stones.
Weighing I use grams.

But I also could not visualise literally any weight except maybe 1 kg of sugar because I know what the bag looks like hahaha!

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Haytham_Ken@reddit

KG, I don't have enough pebbles in my garden to keep track that way.

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MolassesZestyclose96@reddit

I’m fully metric with the exception of miles per gallon

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TravellingDoc87@reddit

So you cover up the mph speedometer? lol

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Postik123@reddit

In my younger days I used stones but when I joined fitness and bodybuilding forums it became easier to use pounds. When I tracked my calories and macros it became easier to work these out according to pounds in bodyweight compared to kg or stones.

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Frosty_Exit374@reddit

36 and I use stone and lbs (pounds)

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Amoeba_Rough@reddit

Stones and pounds. I have no concept of what is the frame of reference for an adult in KG, I just can't visualise it. Always done it from childhood, it's just the default.

Babies, pounds and ounces, but toddlers I have a little frame of reference because cm is the default on the NHS, but I often just want to know what percentile they are on as the most important thing I track for weight for my children.

Weight for cooking however I want grams and litres, metric is best there!

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Tattycakes@reddit

Just pounds. Not sure how it ended up that way, probably picked it up from the default on an app, I like it as you can see small fluctuations and have fairly regular milestones

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Junior_Tradition7958@reddit

KG for me but that’s because I’ve been in and out of hospital my whole life and that is how they always weighed me and how I had to weigh at home to log.

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muffinhuffinpuffin@reddit

Having lost weight a few times before and used online resources for support, I have fallen foul of the American-style of using lbs. My brain struggles to compute stones these days although I do track it. I use kg too but I like lbs from a mindset point of view, because its easier to lose 1lb than it is to lose 1kg. It feels like you can celebrate a drop in the scales more often when you use lb.

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sanehamster@reddit

I do pounds, but not stones unless I'm asked.

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HerrSPAM@reddit

It's the 21st century, kg.

The other measurements are for boomers and muricans

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SoggyWotsits@reddit

I’m in my 40s, and it’s stone and pounds for my weight but kg for everything else. I can’t picture someone’s weight in kg, but I can picture sand or soil. I know I weigh the same as 2 25kg bags of cement, but add 5kg and I couldn’t picture whether that was a lot or not!

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minadequate@reddit

Late 30s if I’m tracking it I do so in kilos but if I need to picture it I’m thinking in stones. I’d struggle to convert to pounds.

Which becomes difficult if you’re dealing with Americans who only use pounds.

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BarApprehensive5837@reddit

Both

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dwair@reddit

Kg. I'm nearly 60 and have never had to deal with imperial stuff. It just seems confusing.

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mr_mlk@reddit

Late 40s. Kg. I've always used kg.

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Commercial-Bat-4534@reddit

Lbs

It's just the most accurate reading.

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tricks_23@reddit

Early 40s and conversant in both. The older I've got I've moved towards Kg but used to measure in Stones and Lbs in my younger days.

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NinjaRadiographer@reddit

Started in stone up until mid teens and then switched to kg as I found it more accurate.

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spinningdice@reddit

Stones an lbs, I'm mid 40s.
I use Kg for everything else, but I can't visualise it as a person's weight...

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PuddingBrat@reddit

St and lb because I dipped in and out of Slimming World twice and that's what they used. I haven't a clue what a kg is.

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mightypup1974@reddit

43 - in stone, just force of habit. It’s a smaller number so it makes me feel better!

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turboRock@reddit

Mind 40s, I use kg. I can't comprehend stones. I used to, but stopped using them at some point. Amazed that younger people still use them tbh

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MattyJMP@reddit

I'm 29. I'd always measure myself in kg, but always tell people my weight in stone... No idea why.

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byerz@reddit

I used to use stones and pounds, until I worked in industry where everything was in KG. After a while I had a much better concept of what a KG is compared to what a stone is

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celaconacr@reddit

Early 40s KG. I grew up with stones and pounds but prefer KG. It's just easier.

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CoolBanana46@reddit

I use both. The scales measure in both, so I do both and then that way I always know what I am either way.

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No_Coyote_557@reddit

70s & kg

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D3t3st4t10n@reddit

KG, I use everything metric. I don’t know why we don’t here. The way we measure stuff is so confusing.

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acezoned@reddit

I dont track it ....

If i did stone

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BadMachine@reddit

kilos

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scenecunt@reddit

Kilograms. I decided 25 years ago when I was at school that I would only use metric as it made more sense, haven’t used stone, pounds or ounces since.

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mori64tf2@reddit

Was raised with stones and pounds. In practice, I track my weight in pounds only. 24.

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msmoth@reddit

Mid-40s and I use kg. Growing up it was stones & pounds but I switched about 20 years ago. Cooking I learned at home in oz and lbs but at school in grams so I can do either, but would default to metric.

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intangible-tangerine@reddit

Early 40s. Stones and pounds is what I always used growing up so that is what's intutive to me. I do know my weight in KG but it feels meaningless. Same applies to just pounds without stone divisions. Those numbers are both double digits whereas in Stone I am single digits which I definitely prefer.

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LeonardoW9@reddit

KG but only because I'm in the healthcare system so much.

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Kent_biker@reddit

Stones/lbs for my own mind, kgs for anything medical/ official

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rabid-fox@reddit

Kg for me

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kale_i_do_scope@reddit

Kinda both. My parents weight themselves every week and have done for decades and thats in stone and pounds but weight at doctors and with people my age is kilograms.

I kinda look at the person who om talking to and guess which one they would use but I have both on hand

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21stcentury_idiot@reddit

Kg and I'm 18

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EuroSong@reddit

47 years old here. Always used kilos since childhood. I have no idea what I weigh in pounds. In fact, the only time I ever use the Imperial system is for road distances and speeds. Everything else is metric.

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elementarydrw@reddit

I'm late 30s and use stone and lbs sometimes, and KG others. I have both frames of reference and swap between them.

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Vast-Faithlessness85@reddit

I used to use stone to track weight but as I got older I realised that metric doesn't really translate to how understand the weight of other things in my life. So now I've swapped to KG.
I'm 35.

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JoeyDJ7@reddit

Kg, I'm 24 and not a heathen ;-)

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MooMorris@reddit

Mid 30s, primarily kg but I understand it in stones. I'm pretty clueless with pounds, though.

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sjw_7@reddit

Im in my 50s so for me its Stones and Pounds. There is nothing else I weigh in imperial and always use grams and kilograms for everything else.

Its habit and no reason I cant change to KG. The only thing I will say in its defence is that its far more satisfying to say you have lost a stone than it is to say you have lost six and a bit kg.

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chemhobby@reddit

kg, age 29

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jooniejoon3@reddit

Used to be stones (I remember being weighed at the GP and I was told my weight in stones). Now it’s kg.

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jamdex07@reddit

I'm (49m) in lbs since going on a health journey. It was stones before that.

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Optimal_Collection77@reddit

Kg every time. I fully embrace our metric overlords

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giraffe_cake@reddit

Mid 30s. I use stones. KG in body weight is hard for me to imagine.

I have started tracking my weight in KG as well as stones as the NHS use KG and I needed it for something. Still prefer stones and pounds.

If you said you weigh 90KG, I have to think about how much I weigh and then what leftover % on top for me to visualise it somewhat and be able to understand. Otherwise I just imagine bags of sugar.

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tanglin5@reddit

Kg. Early 30

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anothermanwithaplan@reddit

Used to be stones, that’s how I was brought up. Since starting the gym 8 or so years ago, KG all of a sudden makes sense like a light bulb moment. Stone still feels intuitive to me though but I rarely use it.

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wintermute023@reddit

Kg for me, mid fifties.

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Kapika96@reddit

Kilograms. I have absolute no idea what pound is. No frame of reference so it means nothing to me. Stone I have a tiny understanding of, my grandparents used it, but I don't really get much of it. Stone means more to me than pound though.

I'm 34.

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SaltyName8341@reddit

Kg for the doctor and stone in conversation

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CurrencyIll9145@reddit

late 20s. i was taught stone in school & can visualise what 10 stone vs 18 stone looks like - just find KG easier to track personal progress

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TJohns88@reddit

Stones when I was a kid, probably because that's what my parents use. But KG from about 15 onwards, because I woke the fuck up and realised Stones are a bunch of hocus pocus mumbo jumbo bullshit.

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hepheastus_87@reddit

Kg here, mainly because thats what they use medically and it makes way more sense to me than stones and pounds. Nothing to relate that too.

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Maleficent-Fun-6744@reddit

I’m early 30s and have always done stones and pounds, KG means nothing to me!

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Ashen-shug4r@reddit

Stones and lbs first. Then kilograms and then lbs.

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AutomaticInitiative@reddit

I know both. My scale is mechanical and does stones & pounds. My GP does it in kilo. Honestly I don't find weight tracking overly useful. I am technically morbidly obese but that's because I am a short arse and have muscle. As long as it remains stable, we're good, and my weight has been stable for about a decade.

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Delts28@reddit

Late 30s and kilograms. I grew up using stones but made the switch in my late teens even I started using computers more and cooking for myself. Much easier to read a recipe in metric than having to convert between pounds and ounces. Similarly it's much easier to track human weight in metric when the imperial alternative can vary between stones & pounds, stones & fractions of stones or exclusively pounds depending on the localisation choices.

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Liquidfoxx22@reddit

Mid 30s, KG.

Used stones and lbs until I started the gym.

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Thevinegarmanreturns@reddit

Kg because that's what the doctor wants to know

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Hedgehogosaur@reddit

I'm 47. Kg all the way

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RiotSloth@reddit

Gen X here, use KG. All part of the nonsensical mixed up standards learned as I grew up!

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TopAngle7630@reddit

Neither. I have no idea what my weight is in any units.

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SpaceTall2312@reddit

I'm 56 and it's stones and pounds for me all the way. I can't even visualise kgs.

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BG3restart@reddit

63, stones and pounds. At my age a tiny weight loss is significant so a pound is psychologically better than not quite half a kilo.

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Empty_Land_9195@reddit

I'm 20 and use all three. Have a notes app where I use stone and lbs, then use kg in a weight tracking app.

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Baggin55@reddit

Was stones and pounds. Then got into fighting and changed it to KGs. It bugs the hell out of the wife that I change the scales to KG 😂

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Original-Alps-1285@reddit

I dare not measure my weight at the mo (KG though)

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ProtestPigg@reddit

23, I use stones. I started tracking my weight when I was 10 so I just used what my mum used.

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fleck57@reddit

KG - stones and pounds to me is an old fashioned and outdated way to do it now

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Fearless-Egg-6646@reddit

I'm in my 30s and only use kg, as stones and pounds feel like a completely foreign language to me.

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muchreally@reddit

KG, male in my late 50's

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AnimalcrossingWW@reddit

27 years old, I use Kg but as a paediatric nurse, we use kg as standard for drug calculations! When I did a stint in the NICU as a nurse, we’d weigh them in kg and then when parents asked what that was in pounds and ounces we’d convert for them :)

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2cbterry@reddit

KG

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Lazy-Oil-9988@reddit

32 grew up using stones but kg makes more sense literaly half a stone doesnt sound like much but thats like 3kg. Using stones is out dated and ancient.

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Yaseuk@reddit

Kg. So I can picture a 1kg bag of sugar. So when I see my weight loss. I can picture it a stone means nothing to me

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ShirtAndMuayThai@reddit

I used to use stones and pounds but like any good engineer I switched to kg. It takes a little while to adjust but now I can visualise either unit

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perpetualmentalist@reddit

I use stones, however know both units,so makes no odds to me.

Helps that I lost half my body weight, you kind of get used to checking.

Now do the same trying to gain weight🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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Scouse_Werewolf@reddit

Nearly 40, been tracking my weight since I was about 11 or 12. I use Stone and lbs. However I know my weight in kg, too, so I guess both.

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thecheesycheeselover@reddit

In kg for the past ten years, but precisely for the reason you gave. I used to think too much and really unhealthily about my weight, and all my knowledge/context was based in stones and pounds. So I decided to switch to tracking in kg and not look up conversation rates at all, just the healthy BMI range for myself. Weigh myself in kg, and as long as I’m in the healthy range that’s all I know. (I know BMI isn’t useful for everyone, but I just have a very ‘standard’ body type/shape and am not unusually muscular, I think it’s fine for me.)

It worked really well, really quickly. Changed my relationship to food and my body for the better, no regrets.

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mrbullettuk@reddit

KG, I’m in my 50’s

I used to know my weight in Stone but it changed at some point a long time ago and I have no idea when or why. I can’t even visualise 14st anymore.

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glytxh@reddit

Kinda all at the same time depending on the context I’m talking about it in. But I’ll personally track in stone as that was what I grew up with.

If I know my base measurements in all the usual standards, I can use that as a baseline for quick and rough mental unit conversions.

I kinda love the chaotic way we measure things in the UK. Keeps you on your toes, and the perpetual mental arithmetic is surely healthy.

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GreyandDribbly@reddit

31 and Stones!

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ButterflyRoyal3292@reddit

Stones as thats my up bringing, but I recognise it again too

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r_keel_esq@reddit

42M

I use Kg for a variety of reasons:

Modernity - Metric is the future. I also only ever measured my kids in metric while they were growing up
Ease - When trying to lose weight, it's easier to track a single number in Excel than having two columns
Rugby - I play amateur rugby and all the Pros have their weights expressed in Kg so it's easier to compare with them that way. My teammates also all use Kg
I'm a bit of a show-off - using a less-common system makes me feel smug

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Live_Lifeguard1267@reddit

It’s a mix. The joy of being almost 60 is I can pick and choose. Big Distance in Miles, weight in stone, small distance in whatever takes my fancy, 280mm or 11 inches. Small weight in grams…. And so on.

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Depress-Mode@reddit

Both.

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rtrs_bastiat@reddit

I use both. KG is more useful for my long term weight loss goals, but losing half a stone feels way more impactful to me than losing even 5KG

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losing_the_plot_@reddit

I'm British so I use a mish-mash of lots of different measurements systems in a way that makes no sense to anyone else.

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jgcarraway@reddit

Mid 20s, I use kgs

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spoo4brains@reddit

Gen X, grew up on imperial but have used KG for about last 20 years.

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IkeTurn@reddit

kg, but I know stones as well so.

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About_to_kms@reddit

Kg

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Harry-666666@reddit

Taught both but Imperial always seemed mad to me (12 of those, 14 of them, that one is in 16s - just make up your mind!) so kg for me.

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lovesorangesoda636@reddit

Kg. I have weird emotional hangups about my weight in stone and lbs thanks to growing up with a weight obsessed mother.

I have no idea how many Kgs are in a stone, and no desire to find out. So my weight no longer carries any emotional baggage with it.

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Electric-aura3000@reddit

Stones

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drivelhead@reddit

I'm 46 and use kg. I couldn't tell you how much a stone is.

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spartacle@reddit

Mid 30s and kg for me, Wife however does stones but I'm slowly converter her... she is younger than me as well so make that make sense!

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PM-me-your-cuppa-tea@reddit

30, kilograms

Grew up using stone, switched to kilograms at about 18 for two reasons, there was a skiing incident where I accidentally told the ski hire place I weighed 140kg (rather than 140lb) and I just felt I should know kilograms

And I also had a bit of disordered eating growing up, so weighing myself in something I couldn't properly contextualise was safer, nowadays if 8 were in that boat I'd have to weigh myself in stone again.

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Jamie2556@reddit

I do kg’s and am 50. But it’s because I don’t really understand it as a meaningful measure. It’s less triggering.

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YouCantArgueWithThis@reddit

Kilograms, of course.

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letscrash@reddit

It used to be stones and pounds, learnt from my dad. But now kgs only.

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Aggravating-Ant-6767@reddit

Stone and pounds, no idea what a kg is

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Itchy-Ad4421@reddit

Both. Because I know how many kg equate to lbs and how many lbs equate to a stone. I think we covered this in maths in like first school or something.

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theNixher@reddit

This isn't America sir, we don't want that pound shit here. Oh, except after my stones....ffs.

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anti-sugar_dependant@reddit

I'm 37, I use kg for weight and cm for height. I did consciously make the switch from imperial to metric though, maybe 10 years ago.

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kilgore_trout1@reddit

Mid 40s - stones. No idea what I am in KG, or the American way of just using pounds.

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Charming-Objective14@reddit

I'm almost middle aged and use pounds and stones like I've done all my life, but when I go to the doctor's they do it in kilograms.

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Pikmanpikman@reddit

Mid 40s and I only use metric. Get with the program 😅😂

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emperorsnewgr00ve@reddit

Kg, i can visualise it a lot easier as a bag of sugar

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miuipixel@reddit

KG stone sounds from stone age

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CraftyPancake@reddit

Kg

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oneyeetyguy@reddit

KG, because my weight loss is more noticeable.

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not-my-circus1992@reddit

Kilos for me, and my height in centimeters.

Tbf, this has only been in the last 10 years since I got really into the gym. It's nice knowing what my deadlift is compared to my bodyweight, etc.

My husband has also started using kilos too because I tell him how much I lifted and he likes to know how many of him it is 😂 (1.5x if anyone else cares)

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Bex1775@reddit

I'm 50 and use kg

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peterbparker86@reddit

I use both. I work in healthcare so I use Kg daily at work, and my fitness apps allmuse metric too so I mostly use Kg. If my weight does come up in conversation with friends/family I will use stone.

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vrrtvrrt@reddit

I was brought up with stones (b.1978), decided a few years ago to join most of the world to use KG for my weight. I can’t hold the numbers as easily, but I’m sure that will change.

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ZekkPacus@reddit

I track in lbs but know how to convert back and forth.

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ddmf@reddit

51, I have lbs set on my scales, and then convert to stones and lbs.

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Super-Surround-4347@reddit

I'm 32 and can't to KG for adult weight, so always stone. But I use grams and kilograms for food.

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Robhana88@reddit

I weigh 15st/95kg/210lbs

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iamdecal@reddit

53m, I track in kg, but tell my wife(46) what it is in stones

I'm reasonably fluent in both, she's old school only

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Appropriate-Bad-9379@reddit

Always stones/pounds! Kilograms may sound better, but i just don’t understand it ( mind you I still think in old money too)…

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n8te85@reddit

I'm 40 and use KGs. It's just the better unit in my opinion, cleaner and simpler to look at and track.

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alferret@reddit

Pounds and I fall into the old category.

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PsychologicalClue6@reddit

KG, pounds are nonsensical to me

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deadeyes1990@reddit

Stone and pounds. If you tell me someone’s 90kg, that means nothing to me. Tell me they’re 14 stone and I get it straight away. Couldn’t explain it if I tried.

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TheatrePlode@reddit

Almost mid 30s and I track in stones, but my pets I track in KG, I don’t know why it’s hard for me to picture a 80kg human or a 6 stone dog.

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mrskristmas@reddit

I'm in my late 30s and track in st & lb. I actually have no idea what my weight would be in kg. I have always followed stones and pounds in weight so kg seems alien to me.

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yoloswaggins92@reddit

I'm 33 and always used stone.

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frankchester@reddit

I use Happy Scale where I can just shake the app and it switches from one to the other. But I mainly work in kilos because it makes more sense to me, and I know what a kilo weighs in terms of food and stuff.

I did have to train my brain though, I was using St Lb up until a few years ago. I still refer to myself in stone sometimes when talking to family.

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Gbrown546@reddit

Stones and lbs. Desperately trying to use KG more though as it seems all the major fitness apps use that as default. And my European friends rolls their eyes when I try to use stone.

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Ok_Buffalo_915@reddit

67 here, used stones until I got to my sixties then felt I ought to get updated. I use cm or inches depending on who I talk to but I've no idea what I weigh in stones now.

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Expensive_Ad_6475@reddit

Kg.

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Matt_Moto_93@reddit

kg for me. I dont know what a "stone" is, I have no refrence. But things like packets of suga etc are sold by the kilo, so I can have a tangible reference.

For what its worth, I am equal to 72 bags of sugar.

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MuserofMusic@reddit

42f here. Growing up it was always stones and pounds because that was what my mum and dad used. I kept using stones and pounds until probably my mid-20's then I just used pounds. I've tried to use KG but I can't wrap my head around it and always revert back to pounds. Sometimes I work it out as stones and pounds but not very often. I also use calorie tracking apps which often only give you the choice of pounds or kgs so maybe that's where my preference of pounds has come from.

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CupCakesNFlatWhite@reddit

Stones and pounds??? What is this, the medieval times????

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f1boogie@reddit

Recently switched from stones to kg.

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pixelunicorns@reddit

Annoyingly I seem to swap between the two, trying to be more consistent as I'm actively trying to lose weight, so now doing kg only. But I also think I can visualise stone easier.

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Dogtag@reddit

I tend to use both 🤷‍♂️

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skratakh@reddit

I'm 37 and use KG, I have no idea what a stone is actually supposed to be and can't visualise it. I also do height in cm.

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SilentScream4685@reddit

Going by the comments I am old school and stones and lbs.

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Occamsfacecloth@reddit

I'm afraid not

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DarkStanley@reddit

Stones and pounds.

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bopeepsheep@reddit

In my 50s, prefer st-lb but cope with kg just fine.

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MillyMcMophead@reddit

62, kilograms. It's just so much simpler.

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Illustrious-Divide95@reddit

KGs now.

That's what my kids do/taught and for health records at doctors/hospitals.

I don't bother with stones anymore (as i did as a kid) I also measured height of the kids in Centimetres as well.

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NecroVelcro@reddit

My weight in stones and pounds, my dog's weight in kilograms.

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thethirdbar@reddit

My spreadsheet has 3 columns: stones, lbs*, and kgs.

(I know stones and lbs are "the same" but 1 column is '140lbs', 1 column is '10.12 stone' because it saves me having to mentally convert)

Stones is what I'm most familiar with but everything uses kgs so that's why the spreadsheet.

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Willing_Coconut4364@reddit

SI units. Kg.

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cacolantern@reddit

Early 30s and always used stones & lbs, I'll still be fat in metric so what's the point.

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JuneauEu@reddit

Stone. 40s. North East England.

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ovine_aviation@reddit

56 year old, grew up with stones but now use kilograms. Prefer the KG. Much easier.

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cactusdan94@reddit

Its weight. When it comes to weight i do imperial. But with measurements i do metric

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Adorable_Pressure958@reddit

Kg for me, I'm 63 but came to the UK when I was fifteen. Australia is fully metric, so stones and pounds never made sense to me.

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404pbnotfound@reddit

It depends a lot on if you do sport too.

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Gauntlets28@reddit

In the past I would have done it in stone and pounds, but ever since I started using this weight tracking app they made me just do it in lb. Realistically I should use kg, but at this point that would make it harder to measure my progress. I'm 30.

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ceciem2100@reddit

kg or lbs (pounds) for me, my partner goes on and on about stones, but all I know is I think a stone is 14lbs? IDK stones are just weird to me.

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Ok-Yogurtcloset3467@reddit

Kg.

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Development-Regular@reddit

Lbs are just easier, even as a brit i prefer imperial

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Trick-Writing-9952@reddit

In biscuits and cuppas

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SomeHSomeE@reddit

40.

As a kid used stones but now use kg and can no longer intuively work out what is a 'heavy' vs 'lights' stones weight.

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Sonuni@reddit

grew up going to hospital a lot where they used kgs exclusively so that's what I'm used to. Couldn't tell you how much a stone or lb is. Similarly for heights, only really learnt what the imperial equivalents to cm were in my teens. In my 20s

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mrafinch@reddit

kg because it’s simple

I grew up with stones but it’s irrelevant in the modern world

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Dry_Action1734@reddit

Always know my weight better in stones, just what my parents used.

Better to track in kg for weight loss though. Which I did for a time before giving up.

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YouSayWotNow@reddit

I'm in my 50s and use kilos but grew up using stones and pounds. Not sure when I switched, I think it was when my GPs started recording it on their systems in kg.

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Namerakable@reddit

I'm in my early 30s and personally track my weight in KG for weight loss because I find it easier to track, but I think in stone and pounds and struggle to easily get a feel for KG when someone says their weight.

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nostalgebra@reddit

Kg isn't precise enough so I use stones and lbs. The difference of a kg is large

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90210fred@reddit

kg for ages - and cm for height now but there's a big gap where I was x kg but y foot z inches

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newtonbase@reddit

53yo and I use Kg. Not sure when I switched from stones but I know roughly how they translate. 70kg =11 stone is my starter point.

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Jyms@reddit

Newtons

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Traditional-Win354@reddit

Kg, Pounds is the American way.

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evenifihateit@reddit

Stones and pounds, but I am getting better at making myself use kilos

It's just that as someone in my late 40s, if you say "she weighs 10 stone" I can visualise that fine, but if you say "she weighs 63.5kg" I can't

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Emergency_Cookie_318@reddit

As a 40 yr old man, I've never even thought about tracking my weight, but if I did it would be in stones.

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G2022B@reddit

40, I use KG, but I can translate to stone/lbs when I talk to boomer parents.

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Live-Guidance7244@reddit

Mid 20s and I always use kg

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Think-Committee-4394@reddit

These days … increase in tidal forces

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SecretSquirrelSpot@reddit

42y - Stones and lbs

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R2-Scotia@reddit

55, kilos ... STRM education

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edfosho1@reddit

KG for me, 35 years old

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Wipedout89@reddit

Stones for me. 35M. It's what I grew up with

I do use KG as well though, but I have no idea how to convert it. I tend to read my scales in KG and then Google it back to stones 🤣

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pgnlzbth@reddit

llbs and stone for me. I’m 48.

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kryptonick901@reddit

Early 40s.
KG.

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filbert94@reddit

Bit of both. Good for your brain to be able to convert.

Same as tracking runs in miles and then converting.

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reasonable-frog-361@reddit

I’m 24 but I use stones and pounds

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South-Visual3803@reddit

KG because stones/ pounds hold trauma from the 90s

I may switch to potatos next to fully heal

31F

I aspire to forget it all!

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angry2320@reddit

26 and kg, mum’s German though so that might have something to do with it

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RealLongwayround@reddit

Kg

I only use imperial measurements for height (since nobody seems to understand 178 cm) and road distances.

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Upbeat_Map_348@reddit

Early 50s and I use KG. I used to use imperial but changed when I began to focus on my fitness. I still use feet and inches though.

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CoffeeandaTwix@reddit

Both. I was more familiar with stones and pounds for most of my life but now I don't have to consciously convert so much for round numbers if we are talking roughly. So I can instantly picture between way 50-120kg but if you said someone was e.g. 180kg I'd quickly think in my head "140 is 2 70s so 22 stone plus 40kg is about 90lbs i.e. 6 and a half so 28 and a half stone" etc.

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pinkdaisylemon@reddit

65 soon. Always in stones and pounds. Can't picture how big or small the kg would be.

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Hearthacnut@reddit

KG is fine but for some reason doesn’t click for me. Pounds makes the most sense (honestly probably American media influence) but stone is completely unhinged and should be ignored in favour of lbs in bigger numbers

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RecentTwo544@reddit

Mid 30s, always stones growing up but kg all my adult life. Same for weights in the gym though you occasionally see bits of equipment (mainly older plate loaded machines) with bizarre kg steps because the plates are weighted in lb but labelled in kg.

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UndulatingUnderpants@reddit

Weight in kg and track it in my fitness pal.

I measure myself in cm too.

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squigs@reddit

49, and kg.

I have a vague idea what my weight is in stone.

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Kara_Zor_El19@reddit

Late 20s stones and pounds

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Banes_Addiction@reddit

Late 30s, grew up using stones+lb. As soon as I got old enough to start having doctors ask questions about my weight I switched entirely to kg.

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DR_95_SuperBolDor@reddit

30, I use either. I love the way we use metric and imperial measures in the UK.

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Glass-Web-4450@reddit

Both. My phone tracks it in KGs and I convert it into st. I dont have a clue what 85kg is but tell me Im 14st and I go ooops I chunky

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Numerous_Green4962@reddit

Kgs, mid 40s, I used to use stones and pounds when I was younger. That said saying I'm 75 kilos makes me feel heavier than saying 11 stone 11.

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kestrelita@reddit

Stones, because then the number is lower and I feel better.

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ttocsy@reddit

I use KG but I have a frame of reference for lb. I can, obviously, divide by 14 but if somebody gives me a number of stone it's not intuitive, I'd have to think about it.

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IlIIIllIIlIlllII@reddit

Kg

Dont go to the gym to lift stones of weight

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Original_Bad_3416@reddit

KG only because my scales don’t have stone so I’m also googling what my weight is in stone

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geeered@reddit

Lbs alone - originally raised in a purely metric country by British parents.

But Myfitness pal at least only worked in either kg or lb and a lot of people on there used lb, so ended up using them. I know 70kg=11st=154lb or close enough, which is what I'm normally aiming for.

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LovlehKebab@reddit

I use stones and lbs, my doctor asked me what he weigh was but he wrote it down in kg.

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fannyabdabs@reddit

F mid 40s here. I use kg

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megasin1@reddit

I use kg. The average baby is about 3kg and I'm a grown man at 80kg. I just visualise it in bags of flour. So I'm 80 bags but a child might be 19 bags. My weight fluctuates around 77 to 81kg depending on how fit i am that month. A stone is roughly 6kg (6.3) so if you know your stones multiply it by 6 and you'll get a slightly lower version in kg

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SocieteRoyale@reddit

I try not to track my weight at all. Most people I know still talk about weight in stones though

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Suskita@reddit

Kg

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theevildjinn@reddit

I'm 47. I switched to kilos in my 20s when I joined a gym in Holland, near where I lived at the time. I also switched to metres for height, I find it a lot easier to remember 1.80m than 5'10¾".

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MinimumBeginning5144@reddit

We should choose one unit and stick with it. Otherwise, there will be mass confusion.

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Experiment328095@reddit

Depends where you live, we use St and lb in the UK, my Aussie mates always use KG and any American I’ve known always uses lbs only

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Real-Box-7144@reddit

Stone and lbs.

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Historical_Project86@reddit

Stone and pounds, but I can convert as I'm reasonably close to where the sums are easy (just over 11 st which is 154 lb or 70 kg).

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FelisCantabrigiensis@reddit

Stone... what?

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danddersson@reddit

Kg, but raised on Stones.

Seems ludicrous to run 10K, cycle 100K, lift 30K, but weigh in stones/pounds.

I am pretty much metric except for driving, and, for some reason, my height.

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No-Echo-8927@reddit

Kg. Why would anyone use stones and pounds in 2026? Probably the same people who measure in goats and oxen.

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AnonymousTimewaster@reddit

Stones and fractions of stones. Don't know how much a pound is. Don't know what kilograms equate to.

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Proper_Security_3050@reddit

Used to be stone until I spent 2 months in hospital and they used KG.

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broken-runner-26@reddit

Late 60s. Converted to kg about 7 years ago when the doctors appointments started getting more frequent.

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HawkTenRose@reddit

25-30, and both depending on the day.

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Breezeoffthewater@reddit

Grew up with stones and pounds. Now I almost exclusively use Kg.

However, occasionally I convert back to stones because my brain can process that better

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ceb1995@reddit

31, I know it in both

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neilm1000@reddit

I think of stone but I track my weight in kg. I track it for health reasons and my scales give me loads of data about body composition. I just convert it to pounds and stone in my head.

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terryjuicelawson@reddit

I've always used stone for weighing myself, feet and inches for height. As it has always been a reference I can picture what someone looks like who is 11 stone or 9 or 20 or whatever, but kg I don't have a reference point (similar issue when Americans talk in pounds). But something I did when trying to lose weight was switch to kg as there is something a bit more technical about it and I wasnt hung up on reaching any particular marker.

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lost-in-midgard@reddit

42m, stones and lbs

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John-mapps@reddit

My dad and extended family from Uk all use stone but I am an Aussie so track in kg. I wrote myself a weight tracking app for iPhone to replace using a discontinued app, as I didn’t like what was on the App Store. It allows switching between units to stone but I also wonder how many people still use stone.

Here’s a link to the app if your interested at all: https://apps.apple.com/au/app/weighttrack-log/id6753856510

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FinGuru98@reddit

Late 20’s - KG

I’ve never properly understood stones even though that’s what I used as a kid. I keep trying to get my parents to move to KG for weight.

They use both ft/inches and mm/cm when it comes to measuring objects so I try to get them to only do it in metric.

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escapingfromelba@reddit

An odd mix. I know that someone is fat if I hear their weight in stone as I used to use that, but at some point I switched to KG for myself. Classic British muddle.

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Lucindaxz@reddit

I know that someone is fat if I hear their weight in stone as I used to use that

Wait, whaaaat?

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escapingfromelba@reddit

You need to explain what is confusing to you.

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Lucindaxz@reddit

Why on earth do you think someone is fat if you hear their weight in stone?! Makes no sense, lol. It's a unit of measurement.

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escapingfromelba@reddit

as I used to use that

I meant that I know the numbers that make you a fattie vs in KG because they were something I took in when young i.e if I hear a bloke is 18 stone then that's intuitive vs a number in KG

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Lucindaxz@reddit

Omg okay now it makes sense, lmao. Thanks for clearing that up.

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ArcTan_Pete@reddit

I am a boomer, but I have no idea what my weight is in stones and pounds. I use KG

I have been an engineer my whole life - Metric just makes more sense to me

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Routine-Secret-413@reddit

Who the hell came up with stones and pound?

British people DO have to be different with everything, aren't they?

Heck, what even is a measurement by stones? No stone is equal weight 🤣.

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Time-Mode-9@reddit

1st = 14lb

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QueefInMyKisser@reddit

So what not all feet are the same length

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Routine-Secret-413@reddit

Exactly. That measurement is idiotic as well.

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QueefInMyKisser@reddit

It’s all pretty arbitrary, a ten millionth of the distance from the north pole to the equator is the obvious choice why exactly?

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Routine-Secret-413@reddit

Your point being? Both feet and stones as measurements are idiotic and make no sense. No stone weighs the same and no feet are the same length.

KG are always the same, centimeter is always the same and so is a meter.

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QueefInMyKisser@reddit

It’s just a name, everyone knows that you’re talking about a standardised measurement, except deliberately obtuse people like you

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phantom_phreak29@reddit

Stones and lbs, height in feet and inches (44m) I literally could not tell you what I am in metric

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Time-Mode-9@reddit

I grew up with stones, but now use kg.

Swapped about 15 years ago, because I hate Imperial and think metric is better.

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Spaghetti3000@reddit

Grew up using stone (using my parents' scales), now switched to kg, but I do have an approx awareness of what I weigh in stone too

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knightsbridge-@reddit

I track my weight in kg, and I spend a fair few cumulative minutes googling what a certain number of kg is in st when I have to talk to older people who don't speak metric.

I have no idea how much a stone is, it means nothing to me.

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littlebird2446@reddit

Exclusively pounds for me. I’ve never used kilos ever.

I’m late thirties.

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Pocket_Aces1@reddit

Kg

For everything involving weight (or the equivalent). Because 1000g is 1 kg. 1000kg is 1 tonne. It's so much easier to find something to compare it too, and there's non of that X amount of lbs = x amount of st.

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Lessarocks@reddit

Stone and pounds . I can never remember in kg but that’s because I’m old and have had a lifetime of stones so it’s easier to remember.

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GavUK@reddit

Primarily stone and pounds. I change the scales to give me kilograms to log it or if I need to provide it to a doctor or nurse, but I only really understand people's weights in stone and pounds (and have to convert American's pounds-only weights to compare and understand them).

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MelibuBerbie@reddit

Mid 40s, always stone. I have no idea what my weight is in kilograms.

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RealWalkingbeard@reddit

Stones, but decimal divisions, e.g. 14.5 stone. I use kg now I live abroad, but I've never understood what a lb is.

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MisterD90x@reddit

I used to do it in stone but I feel KG is far more accurate

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DoKtor2quid@reddit

Age 53. I use stones and lbs, and reluctantly have to google to convert when people start using these new-fangled kgs heh

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colin_staples@reddit

I'm old enough to be your dad. I grew up using stones but I use KG now.

But I do convert to stones for some people. Trivial to do so on your phone

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Quiet_surprise79@reddit

Mid 30s and use both but use Google to convert if I'm switching between the two.

I know my weight in both kg and stone. I have analog scales so weigh in stone because it's easier to see without crouching and changing my weight distribution, but my current weight tracking app is set to kg.

I think if someone tells me what kg they are, it's a little more effort for my brain to compare to my weight Vs if they tell me in stone. If they tell me just in pounds, I'm off to convert it.

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HalfAgony-HalfHope@reddit

Stone and lbs. KG just confuses me. 😀 I'm in my 40s.

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MobiusNaked@reddit

50s here. Used to track in stone but mentally now its kg, probably been that for 15 years.

I measure things in cm but need feet/inches to visualise it.

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Flimsy-Sheepherder98@reddit

Mid 40’s - I use KG - grew up using stones and lbs though so both work for me.

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SpudFire@reddit

30's, I started using KG about 15 years ago. I think the main reason was because I took up cycling and KG is used there by pros as it's a very European-based sport.

But I think it makes a lot more sense anyway as the larger number adds more accuracy. I think a lot of people round down with body weights, so 13 and 13 and a half stone get looked at the same way. Whereas you get a noticeable difference when using KG - 82 (82.5KG) and 85 (85.7KG).

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Consistent-Candle873@reddit

Both im of the generation thats kinda stuck in-between so when anyone asks i know roughly my weight in stone and kg (preferred). Although weight lifting no clue besides kg

But also know a friend who only does pounds. I even think he uses US pounds for some weird reason

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Buh_Snarf@reddit

Stones and Pounds, 43.

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Aaron123111@reddit

Stones, I can’t work out kgs

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BaldPleaser@reddit

I track my weight by the number of notches I use in my belt and its comfortability. It’s descend from the dark ages, hence.

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JBEqualizer@reddit

I was born in the 70s, so grew up with everyone measuring their weight in stones, so that's just what I'm used to but I have no issues using kg. I can convert from one to the other if I need to, just as I can with length/distance.

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Nameisnotmine@reddit

Track in kg for medical records. Convert to stones so I know exactly how fat I am In my mid 50’s

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idreaminlowercase@reddit

Pounds and stone but I understand pounds more

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Mortiis07@reddit

All three

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PoolRamen@reddit

- Both, but in terms of imperial these days more in just pounds
- Jonesy-X

I've yet to meet anyone British who thinks exclusively in kilos in that they can't visualise a pound

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Skate_beard@reddit

41 here, kg

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LittleSadRufus@reddit

50s and I used KG. I have no idea what stones would look like on a person, e.g. 11 versus 13, and prefer the decimal system to however many pounds there are in a stone.

When I was a kid it was all stones, but that evaporated in adulthood.

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here-but-not-present@reddit

I like tracking in stones, lbs and kgs. Mostly because I'm sad like that.

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musicallymotivated93@reddit

Stone and pounds, because that's what I was always used to growing up. I do know my current weight in KG though, but only because I used a converter.

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PoorLittlePicklePest@reddit

Used stones and pounds as a kid but use kg now just because it's just easier and it's the default for the fitness apps I use.

Nice to be able to hold 1kg pack of rice in my hand and think I've lost x of these fuckers so far.

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Squadrone_Rosso@reddit

56 year old bloke. Both buy mainly stones & pounds.

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Flying_worms@reddit

I do both!

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idek_just_for_fun@reddit

Stone and lbs I was raised with

But when actually trying to lose weight, kg is much more convenient

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BastardsCryinInnit@reddit

Im older than you, and kilos.

To quote my 96 year old nan, "Who are these idiots who haven't worked it out by now?".

Imagine that in a soft Welsh accent, and it being at a check in desk about 20 years ago chatting to the lady behind the desk about suitcase weight.

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redditsaiditreadit@reddit

Stones and pounds exclusively as well

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JustStraightUpLost@reddit

The easiest was to visualise kg is to use 1 litre bottles of water, litre of water is 1 kg. 31,, 5ft3, 110 lb, I use pounds.

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FakeNordicAlien@reddit

Just pounds, though I sometimes have to translate it into kg for medical records. I’ve been in this country 30+ years but some of my Americanisms/Californicisms stubbornly remain, like my insistence that a decent amount of ice in a drink is half a glass and not the pathetic two ice cubes that you get here, or my over-reliance on words like “dude” and “hella”. I figure the pound thing fits in that category.

I prefer kg over stone, though. Stone never made sense to me, even though stones and pounds are on the same system.

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Maleficent-Win-6520@reddit

I mostly track mine with Lucozade and Kit Kats

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VolcanicBear@reddit

KG. All I do in Ye Olde Units is drive, buy beer from a pub, or buy cannabis.

I'm 40. I can understand stone when it comes to weight, but I'll never choose to use it.

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Low-Captain1721@reddit

I'm early forties & I got imagine what 118kg is...

I lost weight the last few years, got myself very fit and work out regularly.

If you're trying to loose weight then the scales aren't the best way of tracking it especially if your gaining muscle mass. Tape measurements of hips waist, natural waist, inner thighs & chest a far better indicator.

According to my BMI I'm still obese however in reality I'm a 6ft very solid Rugby Player build. Wear L or XL tops and don't look in the least fat.

😀👍

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buy_me_a_pint@reddit

I use Kilograms

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leclercwitch@reddit

30 here. I grew up using stones but now I use exclusively kg.

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schmerg-uk@reddit

Nearly double your age but same here... I use kg these days but stones if I want to see how I compare to when I was 18 (about 9 and a half stone then, 10 stone or between 63kg and 64kg now, so about 3 or 4 kg more).

On other hand, any article from the US re:fitness etc use lbs, so 140lbs...

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DameKumquat@reddit

50s, was always in stone, but over the last 20 years I used metric because it doesn't have the same connotations of my mum screaming about me being fat.

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mdmnl@reddit

Late 40s. Measure weight in kilograms and then pretend it's pounds to feel better about myself.

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mimi_96@reddit

29, kg only!

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Swimming_Possible_68@reddit

I'm stones and pounds, in my 50s.

What's weird is I use KG for literally everything else, but can't convert my own weight to KG.

Also, when the US just use lbs for human weight, I can't figure out if it's a lot or not..

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abfgern_@reddit

Kg, i'm 24. I can't remotely visualise Stone, I know its about 6kg, but cant automatically get a feel for it

I'm ft/in for height though

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Neither-Check-475@reddit

I’m 22, I use stones and pounds, I understand kg obvs but they aren’t tangible to me like stones are you

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Cool-Doughnut-1489@reddit

I always used kg and when patients tell me their estimated weight, I get a bit crazy when some of them would use stones. I’m just not used to it so I convert stones to kilos using google LOL

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Calm-Treacle8677@reddit

I use kg to monitor loss and gain but I always convert to stone so It feels more relevant

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_isolati0n@reddit

Stones and pounds, also late 20s

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TheDawiWhisperer@reddit

Stones.

My mate uses kg and I have to ask Google to translate it

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Sea-Still5427@reddit

I'm older and I use stones, but if I wanted to take the emotion out of losing or gaining weight I'd use kilos as I have no emotional attachment to that and can't visualise what it looks like or relate it to clothes size.

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sicksquid75@reddit

Both, but i have more an idea what a pound feels like rather than a kilo.

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Far-Radio856@reddit

Donuts. That’s how I do it

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Distinct-Lion4658@reddit

I track it in just pounds so 70kg = 11st = 154lbs.

Measuring in pounds is much easier for weight loss as a daily 500kcal deficit should roughly mean a rate of 1lb/week lost.

It's also easier for calculations, doing 190lbs minus 150lbs is easy, whereas in stone you'd have to convert anyways (13st 8lbs minus 10st 10lbs)

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Soggy_Tangerine9340@reddit

Stones growing up, but transitioned to KG to align with the docs and sports.

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learner2k@reddit

Kgs

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blinkablink@reddit

I'm 29. My parents did stone and pounds and that's what I did until I left home. Then I converted to kg as it just made more sense! Metric appeals to my logical brain. But it's still pints of beer and MPH obviously! I'm not a maniac!

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Diura@reddit

I understand stones & pounds better so I track my weight in kg cos then I don't know how many stones I weigh and I'm less fixated about it.

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salilouisa@reddit

I do this as well (though I'm pushing 50). It removes a bunch of the negative baggage that's left over from being a teenager in the 90s and allows me to set realistic targets.

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Engineers_on_film@reddit

Mid 30s and use kg. Not understood stones for decades.

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P0rk1n5@reddit

I’m British so it’s stones and pounds.

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mjratchada@reddit

Yet you count in base 10, do almost all of your calculations in base 10. Metric measurements make sense in that context, imperial measuremets do not.

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Glittering_Goblin@reddit

Mid 50s ... general reference in stones, tracking in pounds since kilos mean nothing to me in this arena

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Adam_the_Penguin@reddit

Early 30s, I exclusively use kg.

I think the only time I actually use imperial measures is when I tell the barber how much to cut off.

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AJMurphy_1986@reddit

Can do both.

European partner so have got quite good with all sorts if conversions now

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asymmetricears@reddit

Kg and 33.

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jeminar@reddit

Mid fifties. Lbs.

Only because my target and oh shit numbers are round when measured in pounds.

I measure other people (in my head) in stone

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Perfect_Ending7@reddit

Stones and pounds, it’s always been measured that way until recently there was a push to use kg.

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Ok-Rain6295@reddit

Kg. I metric for everything.

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Chimpy20@reddit

I use kg but I understand both and know roughly what corrosponds to what.

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Savingsmaster@reddit

Kg only

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Mozambleak@reddit

43 years old: Stones for human weight and Kg for the weight of non-human things (animate or inanimate)

My wife is from the USA and finds this flipping between units for measuring based on what you are measuring so weird.

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edwardo3888@reddit

Kg

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Lucindaxz@reddit

39 and use stones and pounds.

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Hertfordgal@reddit

Both, just depends

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BillyJoeDubuluw@reddit

Late thirties.

I track in stones, but it does seem to be becoming outdated.

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TheHillHasMoved@reddit

Whichever looks less scary at the time.

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Voodoopulse@reddit

Stones and pounds, feet and inches for height it's the only times I use imperial measurements

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Obvious-Water569@reddit

My scale only shows KG so I track it in KG. But when I tell people my weight I use stones and pounds.

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zephyrmox@reddit

Both, in a way. Historically always st/lbs and that's what I have the best 'feel' for - but because I lift weights in KG now, I am more focused on that.

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BalthazarOfTheOrions@reddit

I'm not British so it's the other way round for me, stones and pounds mean nothing to me. Metric all the way.

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Neddlings55@reddit

I do not track my weight. I dont need that negativity in my life.

I would probably use stones though. My doc uses KG. I understand both.

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