[quote]CBear84 wrote:
[quote]kimbakimba wrote:
All of your gym’s resolutioners are at my gym. Thanks for nuthin’.[/quote]
one of the 7 plagues I am sending you. You keep fuckin up your form you’ll get more.
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Fuck. I know I’m THIS close to a plague of brotards. Better straighten up…
[quote]CBear84 wrote:
[quote]kimbakimba wrote:
[quote]CBear84 wrote:
I may have also started to clean up the diet after the COUGHNEWSCOUGH
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I was just curious as to what this NEWS was.[/quote]
oh, this was a joke for Meester Boss Man Sir.
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you get that BF report back or somfin’?
[quote]talenaah wrote:
[quote]CBear84 wrote:
[quote]kimbakimba wrote:
[quote]CBear84 wrote:
I may have also started to clean up the diet after the COUGHNEWSCOUGH
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I was just curious as to what this NEWS was.[/quote]
oh, this was a joke for Meester Boss Man Sir.
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you get that BF report back or somfin’?[/quote]
I told him I’d rather that he told me I have clitoral cancer than read what number came back.
It said 25%, but he said the thigh measurement seemed off… he gave me my measurements, too.
A month or two ago the hobbit tested it with an electrical impedance scan, came back about 17%.
I don’t care so much about the number itself. Ok, I do, just because it’s over 20%, and that was a sort of benchmark I’d set for myself “don’t go over 20. fuck no just not over 20,” but I still don’t have a problem with the way I look. so, that’s that.
babe you don’t look bad.
This is an approximate science.
Thank me for myl ack of typos since I’m exttremely drunk.
[quote]AlisaV wrote:
babe you don’t look bad.
This is an approximate science.
Thank me for myl ack of typos since I’m exttremely drunk.[/quote]
Agreed, x a gazillion.
I have had #'s from BEI, and calipers swing wildly from day to day and also from person to person (calipers).
I had a guy tell me I was 29% once. I said to him that he was fucking crazy. That is borderline obese. He insisted it was correct because he was ‘experienced’ and then told me I didn’t look it. Uh yeah, that is because I am not! It really fucked with my head, even though I knew that I was not that high.
Anyway, we are usually higher than we think we are (butt and boobs and all) and we each hold fat differently which can really alter the readings, but what really matters is how we look and feel.
You know that I hold a place in the long line that has formed to get the chance to lick you from head to toe! 
Alisa is drunk!!! WOOOHOOOO!!!
im not so devastated. just… that number…
Bear, have a read of this, it may give you some solace. The guy looks like he’s between 6 and 8%.
[quote]CBear84 wrote:
im not so devastated. just… that number… [/quote]
Having numbers attached to me really fucks with my head. It shouldn’t. But it does. Perhaps its better not to be tested at all?
agreed with DOCL…who cares what those random number generators say!! But I know how they can play there little head games…
Now that I have my senses – how did they do this thing?
I got mine tested and it was just waist and back of the arm … which makes me doubtful.
HAHAH! Ahhh, I see. Shockey Monkey.
As you well know I have no clue re: BF%. But if 23 is high for me, 25 is stupidly high for you. Sounds suspect.
good link Cal. same comment i made, bullshit about being older automatically gives BF% higher with same measurements as someone younger.
here, Claire…i’ll tell you what you tell me:
“Fuck your report…” (with absolutely no disrespect to the Boss Man!!!) 
just the #
my fancy pants scale says 17%, hand-held says 24% i’m hoping i’m at the 20ish mark and declining. but really, truly, does it actually matter???
Thank you, ladies. I ended up making a huge screwdriver and watching a Kindertransport documentary. Not because of the bf, but because of work and stalker stress. It’s hard to be upset about much after something like that.
No, T, the number itself really doesn’t matter.
Alisa- it was an 11 site skin fold caliper test.
kimba- spot on. definitely better for me at least, to not be tested. I got rid of my scale a year ago. I did the bf thing because it was there, available, and maybe they’d need it to write my program or something.
Cal- thanks for the link. lol that his wife tested lower than he did!!
so the extra foam rolling i did last night was AWESOME. woke up feeling great, outside of the fact that i woke up because the glimpse of sunlight peeking through the clouds is reflecting off all the snow outside and shining spotlights through every window of my apt. I’m getting ready to ask if I can put up blackout curtains.
I’ve been listening to Amy Winehouse-Rehab on repeat for the last 20min or so. I don’t care what anyone says, she has talent and the tune is catchy. I don’t keep up with current events, so unless she’s gone around putting babies on spikes lining main street, I’ll be ok with her.
ps… this is where I tell those of you that I really don’t keep up with current events. I choose to not have a TV, and haven’t had one for the last 3 years or so. The internet is addicting enough. Damn textsfromlastnight.com.
I’m an Amy Winehouse fan too. Don’t care what anyone says!
On the BF thing: One day I hope to be as cool as CBear on these things (BTW that is one of my current goals)
I got some calipers and did the one site measurement for quite a while early on when I was losing fat. I think it was somewhere in Tom Venuto’s stuff written to only use the number as a baseline for improvement rather than having any value in itself because of inaccuracies in the measurement and since it was only one site the error factor was not compounded over a bunch of sites.
The problem for me was that I wanted that number for objective measurement because we all know the tricks the mirror (okay my mind) can play and I admit to being quite delusional in that regard. We know the scale weight doesn’t give the whole picture (thank god I knew to not pay attention to that because that would put at a total loss of a whopping 10-15 lbs since I’ve started) But to have to trust my eyes and forget about the tools was impossible for myself.
That said, while I was losing a bunch of fat it was quite helpful to see the BF numbers go down day to day even if I knew I was only able to pay attention to the difference rather than the whole number. Taking the measurement in the same spot every morning gave it more consistency and the actually process of doing that did give me an awareness of what increase or decrease in BF actually feels like pinched in my fingers. Keep in mind I was at a size 12 back then so the difference was noticeable and significant.
I do use the measuring tape regularly, but other than that I’ve been trying to just be able to have an honest view of what I see in the mirror. BUT to add to that I have recently discovered or realized that one of my full length mirrors I have depended in the past on is actually warped making me look shorter and fatter. I just realized how much distortion there is and I’m wanting to slap myself for not seeing it earlier! I only realized it because my boyfriend was standing next to me and I saw how much it distorted him. I don’t use this bathroom mirror that much anymore but there was a time when I was trying to so hard to lose fat and that was the mirror I was using. Gah! So there you go, you can’t always trust the mirror either 
Sorry for the ramble in your log CBear.
Oh and teehee at Alisa’s drunk posting 
Oh deb don’t apologize for the rant.
My bf% is almost nowhere in my goals, and it really, really shouldnt have upset me. The reassurances from you lovely women helped me realize that its such a small part of the whole, but that I’m not the only one who pays attention to it. Definitely not letting it rule my life or ruin my day, I’ll just think about it and say, “GRRRRRR”
I’ll post partly clothed pics to make myself be more objective
[quote]Doc L wrote:
I had a guy tell me I was 29% once. I said to him that he was fucking crazy. That is borderline obese. He insisted it was correct because he was ‘experienced’ and then told me I didn’t look it. Uh yeah, that is because I am not! It really fucked with my head, even though I knew that I was not that high.
Anyway, we are usually higher than we think we are (butt and boobs and all) and we each hold fat differently which can really alter the readings, but what really matters is how we look and feel.
You know that I hold a place in the long line that has formed to get the chance to lick you from head to toe!
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Yeah, I’m roughly 30% and I don’t feel obese, or look it, but that is a scary thought. To be a size 14 and labeled “obese” is very depressing.
[quote]CBear84 wrote:
I’ll post partly clothed pics to make myself be more objective [/quote]
Excellent plan. We can absolutely help with objectivity.
Training!!
That thing I do when I’m not working, avoiding homework, or recovering from a hangover.
If I could get used to the looks I get when I’m doing pull throughs it would make it a lot easier. I laugh when I see people looking at me like they’re watching caterpillars fuck.
For this particular workout, I use the cable machine for each of the first 2 sets, and right before I started the second set, two youngish, scrawny, just hit their growth spurt but before they found their first facial hair kids jumped in.
A guy I see there on a semi regular basis, whom I will refer to as Barney, began to laugh and shake his head, and reminded me that killing people on Sundays is worse than the other six days. I said, “I’m not gonna kill them yet, I’m tryin to figure out if they’re doing tricep pushdowns or hip thrusters. I can’t get mad at this, it’s too fucking funny.” I know these boys heard me, because they made eye contact, but they said nothing. Nor did they move.
Which was fine with me, because then Barney started asking me about powerlifting competitions. He thinks he might want to do one, and at least wants to go watch one. (no, kimba, Barney is unfuckable.) When he asked what I would want my total to be if I competed and I said 700+, those two little boys who were still in the area stopped what they were doing and walked away.
grneyes- ok seriously tho sizes in general piss me off most of the time. store to store, style to style… I’m a painfully low maintenance woman when it comes to that shit and I generally hate shopping unless I’m buying more of the same because I loathe the circus involved with trying on clothes. I have to take 3 sizes of pants back at a time, and at least 2 sizes of shirts.
I’m so sticking to my uniform of jeans and a black shirt for as long as humanly possible.
