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pshaw_ravenTrying to get sort of caught up on peoples' posts here, since I derped out and stopped reading.
The new washing machine is installed and it's really nice. I'm somewhat leery of stuff with a lot of "smart" features and onboard computers, etc since that's just more shit that can go wrong. We need to get the old machine to the dump sometime soon but the truck was acting up again. Fox made a special trip into town last night, suspecting a bad cable going to the spark plug, and he turned out to be correct.
When we head to Orlando next (April, most likely) I'm going to get a DEXA scan and a resting metabolic rate test done. Or as I told Fox, I'm going to pay someone a lot of money to make me feel bad about myself. I can't get a real fix on what my body fat percentage is. Fox seems to think the Garmin scale is accurate, but I know it isn't. Even knowing that, it still eats away at me every day as I watch the fat go up and muscle go down, which is exactly what happens when you lift heavy and eat a high protein diet. (insert big eyeroll here) I even tested my theory by weighing myself, then changing my date of birth in the app to make myself ten years younger. I weighed myself again and lo! My body composition improved dramatically! I put it back to my real age, and the measurements went back to high body fat and very little skeletal muscle. Even the percentage of water changed though that is supposed to be what the scale is using to get your body composition. (Muscle and fat have different amounts of water in them and thus conduct electricity differently, or that's the idea anyway.) So I'm of the opinion the scale is just using my raw weight and age, and then spitting out the other data based on population averages. That view was reinforced recently when I was reading a post from some guy about my age who is a regular triathlon competitor, and he routinely changes his age to 18, uses his Garmin scale, then changes his age back again so as not to mess up his V02max, because otherwise his scale does the same thing to him.
So I don't like that scale. I don't even trust it to measure changes over time because I don't think it's actually measuring anything. Since DEXA is considered the gold standard (and nothing is going to be 100% accurate short of four-compartment weighing or an autopsy), I can pair that with my RMR results and get a much better idea of how I might need to adjust my diet and stuff. Or it'll tell me I really AM at this super high body fat level and I'll feel bad about myself.
On the other hand, my resting heart rate last night was 42. Hehehehe
I also got to try a soda called ThumsUp. It's Indian, as in imported from India, and the can even has how many rupees in tax were paid on it and everything. I like it much better than American cola, it's got a smoother taste. But I'm also not a big soda drinker, so the few times that I actually want something like that and drink it, it's an experience. I'm not going to be ordering cases of it online or anything, but if I'm at an Indian place and they have it, I'll probably get one. We actually have a couple of Indian markets in Jacksonville that I ought to make a point of visiting. I'd like to start making some of my curries more from scratch.
The new washing machine is installed and it's really nice. I'm somewhat leery of stuff with a lot of "smart" features and onboard computers, etc since that's just more shit that can go wrong. We need to get the old machine to the dump sometime soon but the truck was acting up again. Fox made a special trip into town last night, suspecting a bad cable going to the spark plug, and he turned out to be correct.
When we head to Orlando next (April, most likely) I'm going to get a DEXA scan and a resting metabolic rate test done. Or as I told Fox, I'm going to pay someone a lot of money to make me feel bad about myself. I can't get a real fix on what my body fat percentage is. Fox seems to think the Garmin scale is accurate, but I know it isn't. Even knowing that, it still eats away at me every day as I watch the fat go up and muscle go down, which is exactly what happens when you lift heavy and eat a high protein diet. (insert big eyeroll here) I even tested my theory by weighing myself, then changing my date of birth in the app to make myself ten years younger. I weighed myself again and lo! My body composition improved dramatically! I put it back to my real age, and the measurements went back to high body fat and very little skeletal muscle. Even the percentage of water changed though that is supposed to be what the scale is using to get your body composition. (Muscle and fat have different amounts of water in them and thus conduct electricity differently, or that's the idea anyway.) So I'm of the opinion the scale is just using my raw weight and age, and then spitting out the other data based on population averages. That view was reinforced recently when I was reading a post from some guy about my age who is a regular triathlon competitor, and he routinely changes his age to 18, uses his Garmin scale, then changes his age back again so as not to mess up his V02max, because otherwise his scale does the same thing to him.
So I don't like that scale. I don't even trust it to measure changes over time because I don't think it's actually measuring anything. Since DEXA is considered the gold standard (and nothing is going to be 100% accurate short of four-compartment weighing or an autopsy), I can pair that with my RMR results and get a much better idea of how I might need to adjust my diet and stuff. Or it'll tell me I really AM at this super high body fat level and I'll feel bad about myself.
On the other hand, my resting heart rate last night was 42. Hehehehe
I also got to try a soda called ThumsUp. It's Indian, as in imported from India, and the can even has how many rupees in tax were paid on it and everything. I like it much better than American cola, it's got a smoother taste. But I'm also not a big soda drinker, so the few times that I actually want something like that and drink it, it's an experience. I'm not going to be ordering cases of it online or anything, but if I'm at an Indian place and they have it, I'll probably get one. We actually have a couple of Indian markets in Jacksonville that I ought to make a point of visiting. I'd like to start making some of my curries more from scratch.
