The following is a real life best friend chat:
BFF Joanna (Code name Joannamo!): You should take measurements when you weigh in. More data. Right arm, right thigh, two inches below belly button, the fullest part of your bust, and your natural waist. You can do your calves if you want.
[It’s like she knows me. My calves are awesome.]
Me: I was going to, but I don’t have a cloth tape measure!
BFF: Use a piece of yarn and measure the yarn.
[She knits like some people breathe]
Me: ... Quit being smarter than me.
Just kidding. Keep doing it.
BFF: Only when it comes to yarn.
SO, thanks to Joannamo! and her bone marrow being overrun with yarn fibers, I have the awesome color graph above. I then measured the yarn and recorded the parts in my Lemon Log (my codename for my weight loss journal. There’s a lemon on it. More on that later. I implement a lot of codenames, it seems.)
I made the above when I was inexplicably awake at 5am (Well, mostly explicable, except that it’s a Saturday.) I forgot to measure my bust, but I’m not worried about it - that part of me, personally speaking, is generally pretty constant and I know generally what that number is.
Listed above, in order, are Bicep, Thigh, Calf, Gut, and Waist.
So, I gots a little work to do.
After the picture I surrendered the yarn to my twitching, patient cat, except for the waist piece. I taped that to the wall in my bedroom with dated post-it strip. Perhaps when I have a grid to show there, I can post that, too!