What do you want them to tell you?
The winner of the 3:40 at Chepstow tomorrow?
Next week’s winning lottery numbers?
What colour panties is Uma Thurman wearing today?
Did John Lennon actually like Macca?
All useful for various reasons, but maybe indicating your weight might just trump them.
No crisps, no sweets/chocolate, no processed shit.
Surprisingly easy to do, I’ve found.
I’ve yet to start the exercise stuff. That will be interesting…
Have already warned my work colleagues to be prepared for endless bollocks along the lines of ‘You wouldn’t eat that if you knew what’s in it.’
Like it’s been said already, start slow. Just get used to routinely moving. Walking is your friend. A colleague has lost (I kid you not) almost 50kg in 18 months from changing his diet and walking.
Yes, all of that.
When I give Amazon £20 for a smart scale, I want my money’s worth. I want to know how much of me is blubber, how much is bone and how much is beer.
And goddammit, I want those numbers to be accurate. Even though I’ve no fucking idea what use that info could possibly be to me.
Yeah, I want my smart scale to tell me to ‘lay off the Mars bars and get some fucking exercise, you indolent fuck’. I’d buy that one.
Edit: If you can’t see your wang, maybe lose some lard.
A slow start will not be a problem.
I can’t see my wang or my lard. My eyesight is fucked.
But I get your point.
Maybe just me, but there is something about people in lycra making youtube videos in their own gym that makes me very suspicious of anything they say.
Just walk (with purpose), aim for 10k steps a day in the medium term.
That and an on-point diet will work wonders.
None of them can do much beyond weighing you accurately. They can tell you your BMI accurately, but the BMI is a very problematic barometer to be using.
All the body fat percentages stuff is pretty questionable - the way they work means you really only get information about your body fat percentage, muscle proportion etc as high as your waist, anything in the top half cannot be measured without additional electrodes being placed on the upper body.
However, the trends can still be useful to check in on, even if the absolute figures are likely to be pretty unreliable.
Agree. Body fat % is a bit pointless as its obvious from your total weight loss and where it comes off that you’re losing fat.
Its a fairly pointless metric unless you’re striving for a six pack and even then I find it questionable as a useful metric.
Much better to focus on measuring the inputs than the output measures imo.
One of the diabetic research nurses at the hospital I go to said when the department got a DEXA machine the first thing each of the nurses did was to climb into it. Most of them turned out to be, um, on the plump side but she had a well below average body fat percentage. Then again she was an ultra-marathon runner. This was a pic she sent me of her running Oxford-Henley in the pee-ing rain along the Thames Path, about 75km I think
In which case, I might just stick with the trend I’ve become used to - next hole on belt = putting on pork.
The amount of young guys I’ve come across who have wasted money on getting a Dexa scan because they’re frustrated with not reaching a six pack, when by eye or caliper they are clearly 15%+ body fat 
Ah yes, Goal No.1: To walk around the gym with no shirt on, looking pointlessly intense.
He is wondering how to pull his keks up, cos his mam isn’t there to help him.
Antoly is quite funny
Prison in Romania and the UK?
