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Bad news and good news

2010 June 28
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by Tim

A little health update:

  • in a check-up with Gerard, my nutritionist, two months ago my bodyfat had crept back up to nearly 19% No
  • I’ve been travelling a bit in the last few weeks, including a trip to the USA, but I worked on my diet and went back to eating Ful for breakfast instead of porridge, tried to keep starches out of most meals, upped my vegetable intake Yes
  • I haven’t been exercising much over that time No
  • I had a check-up last week and my bodyfat was a bit over 18% Yes
  • Gerard let me know he’s leaving the practice to become a schoolteacher – apparently that’s fun! Big Frown No
  • this morning I got my own Tanita bodyfat scale so I can monitor my bodyfat daily or weekly if I want to Yes
  • Niche and I are kicking up our workout consistency this week and I’m planning to fit in more high intensity cardio. Yes

So, on balance, things are good Big Smile

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  • Ralf

    Great that you managed to get your body fat all the way down from nearly 19% to a bit over 18%…. Wink

    Yay for health.

    R

  • http://www.timbomb.net/blog Tim Mansfield

    Thanks for your support, Ralf Neutral

    As you might recall, I originally dropped from 22% to 15% last year, but that was an “emergency mode” phase to deal with the health issue.

    Since January, I've been focusing on long-term lifestyle change, rather than responding to a crisis. I can drop a lot of fat fast, but to stay healthy I need to keep it off. So with that context, that jump from 15% to 19% in the first three months of this years was a bit of suck and pretty disappointing and merely dropping a little over six weeks is pretty good.

    If I can find myself back around 15% by this December, that will be awesome because it should mean I've successfully adapted my normal lifestyle to a more healthy style.

  • Ralf

    The yay for health was serious, and I'm completely supportive of you being healthy, sorry if it didn't come across that way.

    I think what's great is that you stabilised the rise in body fat, and that is worth really celebrating. I think the way you phrased it (18%+k vs 19%-l) made it sound like a drop, but surely both measurements are affected by a test error rate of m and a regular physiological variance of n? The scientist in me was chuckling… A trend line of regular measurements is the way to go though.

    Ralf

  • http://www.timbomb.net/blog Tim Mansfield

    Ahh… sorry for being a bit hyper-sensitive. I didn't get your experimental-error humour. Yes, you're completely right. Flat-ish is better than rising! Especially given how little I exercised.

    I've never said, but I noticed when you dropped a bunch of fat a few years ago. What did you do?

  • Ralf

    I think it was a combination of:
    - working through the emotional uncertainty that had been weighing on me
    - starting the day with 1/2 hour sitting meditation
    - replacing soy milk based coffee drinks with short blacks
    I did a bit of exercise, mainly just the fitness ladder from the Hacker's Guide to Weight Loss, but not all that regularly, i.e. daily for a few weeks, then drop it again, etc.

    But I'm a bit of a bastard when it comes to this stuff. A few days exercise and I tone up dramatically. No soy cappucino's for a week and I'll visibly lose the padding. One of those metabolisms…

    R

  • http://www.timbomb.net/blog Tim Mansfield

    Good for you!

    Yay for health Smile

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