Self indulgence
Nov. 11th, 2007 12:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pecuniumIt'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.
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.
