18-year-old Helena Muffly wrote exactly 100 years ago today:
Friday, March 13, 1914: Weighed myself this morning. I had lost six pounds. My tummy is flat you can bet. Ate solid food for supper.
Her middle-aged granddaughter’s comments 100 years later:
Grandma—
Wow, 6 pounds is a lot to lose since your tonsillectomy two days ago. I guess that there can be some unexpected positive benefits from having surgery.
Will you be able to keep it off now that you are eating solid food?
—
Here are several previous posts about weight and dieting:
A Hundred Years Ago 
We are so far overweight now a days!
It’s interesting that they also were worried about weight a hundred years ago.
It was that nasty physic.
🙂
Some things never change….. I also like to lose a few pounds and have a flat tummy!
So would I.
Six pounds IS a lot for just a few days. She probably didn’t have 6 pounds to spare.
She sure must not have eaten much since the tonsillectomy.
The answer to your question is “no, she won”t.” Haha, been there. Interesting about the weighing. I never pictured women weighing themselves in those days.
I wonder what scales looked like back then.
That’s a terribly painful way to lose six pounds, but I guess there isn’t an easy way to be found!
I agree–there doesn’t seem to be an easy way to lose weight.
I wonder if her tonsils were inflamed and she wasn’t eating much before the surgery.
That’s quite a weight loss!
no comment, LOL “hello Dr? Yes Boomdee here, yes, I need to have my tonsils out”
Hi. It was likely water weight after her operation. Jane