Fat Club - Friday! - Page 4 - Health + Injury

Xerxes

06/09/2002 at 16:48

I hope you take into acct dehydration when weighing yourselves - water weighs a lot. TO be sure about losing weight, you have to weigh yourself at the same tiem each day and take readings over a period of time.Also natural variations make a large difference, and if you were not "regular" you would have a large amount "stored" in you: exercise will cause emptying to occur - hey presto! Weight loss. I wonder how may "miraculous weight loses" are due to a dehydrated, but empty intestined person. It is the amount of body fat that needs to be reduced - that can only come from a long campaign of exercise couples with eating less fat (but not necessarily eating less - see elsewhere).

The Evil Pixie pirate

pirate

06/09/2002 at 16:52

Thanks Tim!
I can agree with the dehyration factor ... after a 5K fun run 2 weeks ago in full sun I "lost" 6lb!! for about 4 hours!!

More interetsing though is why Tim has an ironing board for a picture? Please don't say that this is linked to yesterdays thread that went mad and is refusing to die!

Velociraptor

06/09/2002 at 16:55

Amen, Tim. So chuck away the scales. They're big-time deceivers. Stick with the good old wobble test. Run plenty, eat plenty, and, most importantly, aim to take pleasure in every step and every mouthful.

Woo-hoo! The weekend beckons! So does the big pile of paperwork under my desk, but dammit, I can handle that.

And Kevin the Teenager has survived 4 days in grammar school without being suspended (a big achievement for a kid who has spent the last 2 years in the behaviour support system) and Angelmouse, I am told, has come home from school festooned with certificates and stickers. Maybe my regime of benign neglect hasn't done them too much damage after all.

Glenn

06/09/2002 at 16:56

Tim has now actually mutated into an ironing board. An unfortunate side effect of spending too much time looking at Readers' Irons on the exteme ironing site.

bigbird

06/09/2002 at 16:58

As a Fat Club newbie, could I have a definition of the wobble test?

And benign neglect never did me any harm...

The Evil Pixie pirate

pirate

06/09/2002 at 17:08

I can only assume that the wobble test is those wobbly bits wobbling! But do tell us newbies more!

The Evil Pixie pirate

pirate

06/09/2002 at 17:14

Out of interest ... is there any real benefit of walking with ankle weights?
And has anyone else noticed themselves walking briskly arround the office in a semi "power walking" manner? Or am I just strange!

Pamela

06/09/2002 at 17:17

no, you're not strange - well, you could be, and i could be too.....i am strange dammit, but walking around the office like a woman on a serious mission is something i've been doing for the last couple of days, too.

The Evil Pixie pirate

pirate

06/09/2002 at 17:19

It must be us then!
I used to slouch arround but I'm turning into woman on a mission as you say! An I was only walking 10 yards to the fax!

Velociraptor

06/09/2002 at 17:23

The wobble test is just what it says. Strip off (wear a supportive bra if you're a girl - if you're a bloke and need a support bra, you don't need to bother with the wobble test) and stand in front of a full length mirror. Jump up and down. Big bones, large frames and heavy muscles do not wobble. Anything that does is F.A.T.

Of course, the really dangerous F.A.T. is not the stuff on your hips and butt and upper arms. It's the stuff INSIDE your G.U.T.

This test is at least as accurate as body fat measurement with machines and calipers provided your body image is normal.

Pixie, walking with ankle weights alters your biomechanics and can lead to leg muscle injury so ankle weights are best kept for doing static exercises. Having said that, I sometimes walk with 1kg on each ankle to slow me down to Mr V-rap's speed.

Plodding Hippo

06/09/2002 at 22:17

Did my second post marathon run this am, all of 20 minutes cos I still feel 94.
Then had a bag of crisps for brekkie.
How can such crap taste sooo good

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