Welcome back, foodmasochist!
I think my TOM upswing is on it's way out, so I am feeling a little less frustrated at the scale this morning. I had a wellness assessment on Monday with a personal trainer at school. She did two different body fat measurements. One was using a 3 site caliper method and the other was one of the hand held bioelectrical impedance devices.
The previous night's tape-measure method put my BF% at 41.8%. Her Bioelectrical Impedance method said 36.2%, and her caliper method said 27.6%. No way is my bulk that much muscle, so I can definitely discount the caliper method!
But then yesterday I was reading about the "Body Adiposity Index", which is supposed to be a much better correlation with actual body fat percentage and again only relies on having a tape measure to calculate.
For the curious: BAI = BF% = (Hip Measurement (in centimeters) / (Height [meters])^1.5) - 18.
So using that I got a value of 38.2%. So the BAI, the BIE method and the tape measure method are all 38.2 +/- 2ish percent. Three independent methods giving results that similar, I will go ahead and assume that for me at least, it's pretty accurate. Any of the rest of you feel like trying it out to compare?
I'll be off to the gym as soon as I can get my butt off the couch and eat a quick breakfast. I've been alternating days of doing 1+ hours of strength training with 45 minutes or more of cardio. I actually feel like I have some muscles in my arms now, rather than just noodles. This makes me very excited!
As far as my spring running mini-goal.... not making so great of progress.
In addition to me still running way too slowly, we had about 4 - 6" of slush dumped on us overnight, so I won't be hitting the sidewalks or paths around here for many days.