I got hit. I will hit back.

[jchrisobrien]

Props to Other_hbk for using his mantra, I felt it was appropriate.

While the weekend was a good time, I fell into a Black Hole the other day.  Very miserable, then very angry.  Lifting at the gym didn't help, but it did fuel my performance.  It wasn't until well after dinner, into the apple pie and cosmo phase of the evening, that things seemed to lighten a bit.

The next day, like Kaizer Soze, it was gone.  I don't know what to fully attribute it to, but I can point at some factors:  a full night's sleep, several successful support calls, and frequent repetitions of "get over it."

In a less serious vein, let's talk about BMI for a moment, which I refer to as Body Mass Idiocy.  Does anyone know of a more accurate means to factor this?  The simple formula tells me that I'm overweight (at 27.4%), but it also (wisely) says that people who work out have a higher than normal number w/out being unhealthy.  Do you just say, "hey I work out, punk" and multiply the result by .8 or something?

Comments

[sirendipity.livejournal.com]

I *hate* BMI. Anyone who has any muscle mass will be considered overweight. In fact, I know someone who trained for the Ironman and was told BY HER PHYSICIAN that she was obese because the BMI said so.....WTF?!?!? It's like the entire healthcare industry FINALLY said "ok ok...so weight alone isn't an accurate way to determine health. We'll take a mini-step forward and use BMI, though, instead of actually logically figuring out what would be best." /rant

Do you really care how much you weight or how much fat you have relative to muscle? If the latter is the case, I imagine the best way to measure it would be that fat pincher device. Percentage body fat is a much more realistic way to measure how healthy you are than anything else. I bet there are some tutorials online for measuring body fat (you might not actually need that pincher thing after all). Let me know if you find anything - and I'll check sometime tomorrow myself and let you know what I come up with.

[silas7.livejournal.com]

Most of my research pointed towards calipers, full body immersion, or certain scales that use a small electric current to measure body fat. I'm leaning towards the latter myself. They aren't too expensive in the grand scheme of things.