Tracking Your Weight Online (If You’re a Husky Divorce Lawyer)

This is, arguably, unrelated to the practice of family law. But, that won’t stop me. It hasn’t stopped me before. Plus, I’ve got an argument for why it’s related.

When I visit the courthouse and look around I see a bunch of husky family law attorneys (“husky” is what they called the blue jeans I wore as a kid).

We spend lots of time sitting, we don’t always eat healthy food and we often don’t make time to exercise.

Thus, some of us are “husky.”

I’ve got some tips for weight loss. Pretty simple – eat less and exercise more. I’ve found that this combination works for me.

But more importantly, I’ve found this cool new scale for keeping up with your weight.

It’s the Withings Internet Connected Body Scale. I bought mine from Amazon (affiliate link).

You hook it up to your home WiFi network and when you weigh yourself it posts your numbers to a private website you can access from your computer or iPhone. It keeps a nice graph and shows your body fat in addition to your weight.

On top of that, you can have it send your weight to Twitter. I’ve seriously been thinking about doing that. On the one hand, I don’t want everybody to know when my weight is up. On the other hand, I’d bet I’d feel a fair amount of pressure to get my weight down. I’ve got a bunch of people receiving my Twitter updates. I wouldn’t want them to know that I couldn’t control myself and my eating. Maybe I’d think about that before ordering dessert or eating that second helping.

I have, for years, been recording my weight in a notebook each morning. I told my wife about this new scale and explained that now I wouldn’t have to walk across the bathroom to write down my weight. She called me “lazy.” Isn’t that grounds for divorce, or something?

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Post written by Lee Rosen on January 8, 2010 in Lawyers