As @fruit_thief says BMI works for 90% of the population who don’t do exercise but not much use for amateur level athletes (of all sports) and above.
Having recently been been body fat % measured with skin fold calipers which are supposedly one of the much more accurate tools I wouldn’t put much weight on anything bar a DEXA scan or better. Skin fold caliper conversion table adds 4% on your 30th birthday. I was coming out at 20%…even the guy who took the measurements was, like yeah no chance.
After the tears of laughter ended, I got up off the floor and added 15kg to his number.
Another time I looked into Racing Weight, which gave me basically the same laughable goal as my GP, but also recommends a half way point, which was a couple of kilos less than my GP-plus-15kg number.
I used to go on one of those machines in Boots that did height, weight and bodyfat. It gave an ideal weight range which started lower than my lean mass having removed all bodyfat completely.
105.2 kg (30.8% bodyfat) - pretty much the same as last week.
Gym is going quite well in terms of weights (or reps) creeping up but still eating too much convenience sh1t and not doing any cardio so may need to look at building a little bit in somewhere.
Weekly self administered injection of the drug semaglutide. Makes stomach empty more slowly. Makes you feel full for longer after eating. Reduces appetite.
Linked to thyroid cancers and pancreatitis which concerns me a little.
Edit: actually Wegovy is the name of the product licensed for weight loss. Ozempic is the name of the product licensed for treatment of diabetes.
Maybe. Although technically Ozempic is for diabetes. Wegovy is the product for weight loss. In both cases the drug is the same, semaglutide. I think Wegovy is a fair bit more expensive. They are clever in big pharma.
My mate who lives in Dubai asked me about this last week, I think he uses it, he’s also training hard, I used to know lots about drugs, but that was a decade ago, I’d never heard of it.
Last Wednesday I started 16-8 fasting. So far I find myself starting to eat between 11am-12pm which gives me until 7-8pm. Having young kids means I can often be up around 6am, and I found more recently that’s when I was starting to eat, and then would be eating/snacking all day. Some evenings I’d be a proper pig with the snacking. Been a bit stressed with work which I don’t think was helping.
That’s where I think this really helps (for me), adding some discipline about the really unnecessary evening snacks. The hardest thing to get used is the morning coffees, I generally make myself loads of flat whites/lattes. A plain black coffee just doesn’t seem to hit the spot in the same way. The De’longhi has been sent in for a service as it’s about 8 years old and starting to play up a bit (they’ve yet to reply to confirm what is/isn’t possible), so currently on instant to compound matters.