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Weight Loss Is About More Than Losing Weight
The number one piece of data most people are worried about when they go into a weight loss diet is what? Anyone? Class? Anyone?
Yeah, weight, no duh. However, it shouldn’t be the only thing.
We have one of those digital scales at home that also uses the bio-impedance method to figure out what percent body fat we’re at by passing a low-level charge through our bodies, doing some math, and looking up results on some standardized tables that are pre-programmed into the device. While these will get a person into the ballpark, they are notoriously not super-accurate, and are better for tracking trends than they are for precision readings.
The scale we’ve been using for weigh-ins as part of the medically-supervised program we’re on is a bit more on the medical-pro level, though, and the data we’ve gotten from it, and tracked over time, is both more accurate and has done more to inform and educate me about factors beyond weight than anything else has ever done.
As you may know from some of my previous posts ( like the one about finding a new car), I’m a spreadsheet guy. If I need to make a decision about something, and there’s data involved, I will resort to a spreadsheet…
