[diet] Non-Scale VICTORY

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For all my bitching about not seeing the needle on the home scale do anything I find attractive, and the digital readout on the one at the club saying the same aggravating thing, I wrangled some good news out of the fact that I'm kicking my ass at spinning class three times a week, and lifting three or four. 

My body fat is under 20%.

Today's 19.6 represents about a two or three percent improvement over when we first hit the gym five months ago (holy crap, it's been five months?!?!)

I am going to damn well take solace (and pride) in the fact that I've apparently turned five pounds of flab into something better.

CW: 181
GW:  ???  (was 165, but I think BMI is skewed for couch potatoes)
SW:  183

Fuck gravity, I can lift more, bike farther and harder, and maybe, just maybe, see some improvement in my back, arms, and shoulders.

Comments

[ladysoleil.livejournal.com]

w00t.

That is really cool. For all I'm doing, I can't seem to get the % lower than 26. However, I'm supposed to be able to incubate live young and all. Men get a free pass on that stuff. ;)

[etcet.livejournal.com]

yeah, you're bordering on unhealthy if you get into this territory.

of course, i'm built like a not-that-svelte woman - 43-36-41. heh.

not so much with the child-bearing hips here. ;-)

[roaster.livejournal.com]

Oh I don't hold with that BMI thing at all. It certainly does not account for the very healthy, or the heavily muscled.

for example Ronnie Brown First round draft pick this year.

6'0" 233 lbs, that gives him a BMI of 31.6... so apperently he's obese.
Nick Luchey (Full Back Greenbay) 6'2" 273 pounds BMI 35.0!!!
Even Ahman Green is coming out over wieght. 29.6 just a shade under obese.

If your exercising a lot I would disregard the BMI totally.

[etcet.livejournal.com]

indeed.

nice to know even the little guys in the nfl are fat bastards. ;-)

[mighty-man.livejournal.com]

Yeah, BMI is totally way off....
Hell, according to the formula, at 6ft, my ideal weight was approximately 154 lbs. I'd say I was only that thin through the early college years. Once I got into pharmacy school, I blew that.

They're supposed to be recalibrating the BMI, but it's going to matter very little when your typical person is obese (more than 20% over ideal body weight) under any measurement. I think a combination of the BMI and body fat would be much better.

As for the first round draft picks...keep in mind that most of them have single digit body fat.