Damn I am tired of having to ADD to the weight ticker. This is ridiculous. I know EXACTLy what I need to do to change this trend and I am NOT doing it. Obviously a problem deep in my little brain I need to think through.
Well, I am heading out for another hike. Dog must sense my intentions - he is following me around the house with this goofy expectant look on his face. I’ve been doing laundry and other fun activities and he isn’t allowed in the basement, so he sits on the top of the stairs and leans down as far as he can to watch. Otherwise he is no more than 6″ away at any given time.
I finally tried the fancy features on my scale - it is one of those bodyfat sensor types. Not hard to program, once I read the manual, but the results feel wonky. According to it, I have a BF %age of 45. That is almost off the graph in the manual, can that be possible? Maybe I am getting the BF% and the BMI confused - should they be the same? To think I have spent all those hours reading fitness mags and I can’t understand this.
Well, why am am I anxious to find new numbers to torment myself with? I can do enough mental damage focusing on the traditional weight, waist and hip trio, thank you very much. I have decades of practice with those.
January 27th, 2008 at 2:32 pm
Sometimes we need to drift upwards until the reality of what we need to do to lose weight seems do-able. I don’t know why, but I’ve lived it many times. For a long time 195 was my “action” high weight. Several times I’d watch 192 become 193 become 194 until finally 195 showed, and only then would I get moving… stupid, but true…
I’m still not even back at 195 yet…
January 27th, 2008 at 5:55 pm
Don’t read too much into those body mass numbers. Muscle vs fat, for example, is not taken in to consideration. So you might be off the scale if you have no muscle, but likely you do have some.
Hope that puts things into perspective.