Measurements – 16 Aug ’18

Ok I missed measuring myself last week as we were in the middle of a move.  We’re in, not quite settled as there are still boxes all over the place.  Moving is tough 🙂 So it’s just under a fortnight and here’s my new measurements.  Again using the bathroom scales and the calliper – Accu Measure Fitness 3000 Personal Body Fat Tester.

Weight – 18st 4lb (give or take a lb as the scales are very temperamental)
Chest – 19mm
Abdomen – 31mm
Thigh – 19mm

Running it through the Weight Trainer – 3-Point Bodyfat/Lean Body Mass Calculator‘ again.  I have 23.3% body fat percentage and estimated lean body mass of 196lb (14 st)

So weight down, body fat percentage up.  Hmmmm.  Over the last fortnight, I’ve been eating quite a bit of stir frys, with soy sauce as flavouring.  I noticed that this has some sugar in it, so I have stopped that over the last few days.  I have also been picking a bit on nuts in between meals.  Meals have been a bit erratic due to the move.  So I will see if cutting down on the snacking and now stopping using soy sauce will help.  But still going down weight wise and the variation in body fat is not that much.  I’ll keep on doing this and see how it goes.

I’d be interested to hear from anyone who reads this to see how they’re measuring their progress.

Measurements

Up to now I’ve been using the single measurement of weight to gauge my progress.  (I’ve also had a bit of a blunter measurement in terms of trouser size – 44 -> 38 at the moment)  But while, I do need to lose weight, the aim is body fat and fitness.  So I stumped out for a calliper – Accu Measure Fitness 3000 Personal Body Fat Tester.  And this Friday morning I weighed myself, 18st 9lb, and then did a quick 3 point measurement – Chest (21mm), Abdomen (31mm), and Thigh (11mm)  and ran it through the ‘Weight Trainer – 3-Point Bodyfat/Lean Body Mass Calculator‘ – which calculated 21.7% body fat percentage and estimated lean body mass is 203lb (14st 7lb)  I’ll be measuring this over the next few weeks to see if it gives me a better gauge of my progress and reporting the results here.