“If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.”
— Hippocrates c. 460 - 377 B.C.
So im not looking forward to weighing in this week. I weighed myself mid week and was up to 74kg. Yesterday i was down to where i was at the begining of the week, today i was back up to 74kg. I had a bit of a binge midweek, but i would say it was 1800-2300 calories for the day tops, surely not enough to go up that much. I suppose i should have exercised more. I usually weigh in on sundays and mondays and take the lowest measurement, mostly out of vanity, partly to try and weed out the huge fluctuations i seem to have
Haha in fear of the scale, i thought i would measure my body fat using one of those highly reliable online calculators. I put in my measurements, and pressed calculate. “Your body fat is 105% according to the formula developed by the U.S. Department of Defense”. Well, i guess that just confirms what we always knew about the usefulness, reliability and accuracy of the US department of defense! I tried another calculator and it came up with 30.47% which sounds a lot more realistic.
sterling
November 23rd, 2008 at 11:25 pm
105%???????? Really? Huh, did it convert the cm’s right? Somehow though, that doesn’t surprise me, the complete and utter fail of that website you used.
Iconised Ghost
November 24th, 2008 at 1:05 am
i dunno, it would make sense if instead of thinking my hip measurements were 91cm they thought they were 91 inches…but still! You’d think if it calculated anything over 100% it would return an error. I mean, i could only be 105% fat if i was 100% and carried a chunk of butter with me or something. Crazy
sterling
November 26th, 2008 at 2:01 am
105% cracks me up. For real. Maybe I DO have a sense of humor after all. Thanks US DOD!