Fat head

Yesterday I stopped by Bill’s office to pick up a clicker for my laptop to use with my presentation on Sunday. He had a body fat analyzer on his desk. Of course not one to pass up the chance to find out that data, I picked it up and used it.

It put me at 15.3% body fat. The funny part is that I had no idea what the acceptable ranges were. After looking it up, it appears, that (for men) the ranges are:

2% – 4% : Essential Body Fat
6% – 13% : Athletes
14% – 17% : Fitness
18% – 25% : Acceptable
25% Plus : Obese

I was a little let down to see that I wasn’t in the Athletes column, but not let down too much. Since I was dead in the middle of the Fitness category.

I am wondering if it would be worthwhile to get a body fat analyzer. My scale has one, but it’s super inconsistent. Periodically it will tell me I am like 54% body fat…which I believe would mean I am made entirely of ham. I’d like to get down to 13% or lower however, but I am pretty sure I’ll need to alter my diet further. I need to think about it.

In running news… (This is probably boring to you)

I went for another 1 miler yesterday morning, and only had one minor twinge during the run that I would categorize as a 1 for pain. The entire rest of the run the pain was 0.

I walked for about 7-8 minutes after the run was over and there was some aching then. I am going to give it a 3.

This morning when I woke up, my heel was a little stiff, but after 3 steps it had cleared entirely and feels fine now.