My mom, Weight Watchers and the scale

As a freshman, coming to college was scary. Not because I was moderately far from my family, but because my willpower to not eat all the good tasting stuff would be tested.
In high school, when college students came back to visit, the majority of them were out of shape. When we saw some that managed to be in better shape we were like, "Oh wow! That's possible!"
Already almost halfway through my second semester, I'm seeing more and more people getting fit. At first, I thought with all this work and stress, it's no wonder people have no time to work out. But after talking to my friends, I realized that they want to get healthy because there are no parents around to force us.
You'd be surprised to know how many people make the effort to get up early and trek to the Rec Center - and now in Wolman students need only stroll downstairs. Some have built-in exercise since many of them are involved in sports and dance teams that meet later on in the day. It's great that a lot of us are trying to live a healthy lifestyle because when we get older keeping our bodies right will not be so easy, as my mom likes to constantly remind me.
Seeing as how my mom is no longer as young as we college students are, she joined a Weight Watcher's group at her job. Every two weeks, a Weight Watchers consultant comes to my mom's job, weighs everyone and jots down any progress that they're making. Lately, my mom has been seeing a noticeable change in her body.
Well, when I called her up the other day, she exclaimed that she lost two pounds. I congratulated her, but she wasn't finished yet. She then started to tell me how the scale initially said that she only lost 1.6 pounds, but she knew she lost more so she stepped off the scale, took off her earrings and went back on to see 1.8 lbs difference. Her heavy earrings weighed .2 lbs! She was so shocked that it made such a difference, that she proceeded to go down the line of the rest of the ladies waiting to be weighed and ordered them to take their jewelry off if they wanted an accurate reading.
So for all of you Hopkins students, if you're trying to get in shape, make sure you take off your jewelry. Better yet, weigh yourself naked so your numbers are very accurate.