Self indulgence

[pecunium]

It's my blog, I get to talk about me.

Maia was at a school-related thing, doing school-related work. So she has, for the nonce, a scale which gives lots of info.

Given my age (40) my height (a tad under 5' 9") and my weight (113.4 .lbs... Yes, I was standing naked on the scale) I have a BMI of 16.7, body fat (determined by an impedence of 686 Ω) of 7.2%.

For amusement, it thinks my Total body weight is 77 .lbs, which means I probably dress out at 30 lbs of edible meats (which includes the offal).

I am, according to the scale, somewhere between 5, and 24 .lbs short of a reasonable amount of fat.

When we tried telling the machine I was, "athletic," instead of, "standard," I was somewhere just shy of dead (with a 3.3% body fat).

Am I healthy? Yeah. I've not been as active, the past couple of months, as I might be, but I was 114 lbs when I joined the Army. My heaviest, (straight out of basic) was 136, and I was fat. before I went to Iraq, I was around 120. I was about 130 when we crossed the berm.

Then I got sick. My weight dropped, a lot, and I've not gotten back to the 120 range.

This is, however, why I can't buy clothes off the rack. No one makes lines of clothing meant for guys who are as slight as I am (they don't make trousers with my waist, and things which fit my neck/arm measurements, assume I am about four-sx inches larger around the chest than I am).

Me, I've always thought, just from how I look, and what I weigh, that I was between 7-8% body fat. Nice to know I was right.

Comments

[cjmr.livejournal.com]

Wow, you're as skinny as my son.

[sinboy.livejournal.com]

Wow. I'm your height, and at my most slim, I was 135. I'm betting some of it is a difference in frame.

[kate-schaefer.livejournal.com]

What's really amazing is that, thin though you are, you don't look emaciated. You just look like a very thin healthy extremely thin man.

[zoje-george.livejournal.com]

You could buy off the rack here no problem. Physically, you're about a match for a young Vietnamese man.

Then again, if you're all leg in that 5' 9", you could have some problems. Trash can't find anything long enough for his arms and legs here.

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

Yeah, inseam is murder. Maia was told we needed to go to chinatown. Waist was fine, but the cut was off. The legs were both too large, and too short. Just a little of each, but I didn't look good in them.

TK