Weight / Fat loss

My body fat % will vary 4%-7% during the day

What's that measure on the Richter scale?

Is that the case with all body composition scales? If so, then I should try to be less narked about it. There is no way I could manage to drink the same amount and weigh at the same time.

Just need to figure out why Garmin thinks my bones have been getting lighter over the last few years :D

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_wave

So far as I know, all bioimpedence scales are roughly the same.

If you're serious about BF% you'd get a proper measurement done in a float tank or bodpod/DEXA and then convert it over to what your scale says, but that still won't eliminate the bioimpedence error with hydration status.

From Tanita FAQ:
When is the best time to use my body composition monitor?
Your body water levels naturally fluctuate throughout the day and night. Any significant changes in body water may affect your body composition readings; for example, the body tends to be dehydrated after a long night sleep so if you take a reading first thing in the morning your weight will be lower and your body fat percentage higher. Eating large meals, drinking alcohol, menstruation, illness, exercising, and bathing may also cause variations in your hydration levels. To get the most reliable reading it is important to use your Body Composition Monitor at a consistent time of day under consistent conditions. We suggest taking a reading before your evening meal.

"The results obtained through Tanita BIA have been shown to be within +/-5% of Underwater Weighing and DEXA (the "gold" standards of body composition analysis.)"

Useful, cheers.

Not serious about it. Would just be nice to be able to know roughly how much fat I've lost over a 12 month period. I do suspect that the Garmin scales are particularly bad though.

If you wanted to do 12 months I'd probably skip the scales and just get a regular DEXA done. But I like the scales for doing stuff like working out fluid losses (2L/hr during Sat turbo) and if I am trying to lose weight, if what I'm doing is working (it's not).

First day of a 12 week exercise and nutrition program today, challenging to walk down stairs right now and I have a load of shopping to do for food. Be interesting to see how this goes.

Which programme are you doing?

Install a pulley system to carry the shopping back up the stairs?
Upper body workout.

Which programme are you doing?

I read this article by Seamus "Shockproofbeats" O'Reilly a while ago now, and thought I'd give it a go.

Three sessions per week with a PT, and a nutritionist for the whole period who tailors your diet to what the PT is having you do.

Here's where we're starting:

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How tall are you? And any idea what the skinfold equates to roughly in % body fat?

Three sessions per week with a PT, and a nutritionist for the whole period who tailors your diet to what the PT is having you do.

I’m sort of doing something similar at the moment. Weighed myself a month ago for the first time in a decade and it was a bit of a shock. I’ve also reached the age where I’m unfit, and overweight through bad habits, and figured its time for a reversal/change.

I’ve been monitoring my weight on some smart scales for a month trying different things week by week, eg, cutting alcohol completely for a week, riding for 1,000 calories a day for a week, cutting 1,000 calories from my diet to see what impact it has, been an interesting month.

How tall are you?

187cm, and no idea of what that means as a body fat % I'm afraid.

I'm not sure I ever posted my results from a similar thing a few years back.

Looking back on it- I'm almost tempted to start it over. Especially given how fat I am at the moment (entirely due to eating too much)

Pros:
I got to like 8% BF
I could deadlift a fair amount.
I almost liked the way I looked for the first time ever.

Cons:
It sucked.
I couldn't maintain it.
I rode my bike far too little.
I was grumpy 90% of the time.
I still feel a tinge of guilt whenever I eat anything particularly bad for me.

The pro cons list doesn't feel like a good trade off.

It would be nice to have a lifestyle that allowed you to stay at 8% BF without the 90% grumpiness.

I'm 90% grumpy and 90% bodyfat. Short straw dealing motherfuckers!

The pro cons list doesn't feel like a good trade off.

Precisely.

Good for angry ultra distance cycling swearing at the locals.

It sucked.

I couldn't maintain it.

I was grumpy 90% of the time.

In my experience, if these three things are what I'm feeling, i'm pushing myself too hard and ultimately fall off the wagon.

My next three weeks diet is 2650Kcal/day, it looks very doable, albeit extremely heavy on the protein, and I seem to have signed up for a plan that rules out coffee, which may be tough.

plan that rules out coffee

I wonder what the rationale is behind that - all the science I have seen seems to point towards coffee/caffeine being beneficial.

If you can cut out coffee, you can achieve anything

Apparently I was drinking too much coffee, which is obviously a lie.

Update, I'm allowed black coffee. The world is ok again.