Shake that booty!

Body fat and weight stuff..........

So far I have been pretty much guided by my bathroom scales but I shall pay less attention to them now. With doing the coast to coast I had a rough idea of what I thought my ideal weight might be. And I'm still half a stone heavier than that.

I'll share the figures with you, no point in beating around the bush and being obtuse. I'm 5'4" and 11st. And I wanted to get to around 10 1/2. But I stopped losing weight. I had come down from 12st and just stopped. So I was chatting with my good friend Kate yesterday after a lovely 20 mile ride and I said that I wanted to lose another half a stone and I was going to have to watch my diet in the next four weeks to see how much I could reasonably shift while still training. Kate shook her head. Now I know what happens when Kate does that.......You get the explanation!

Off she went and came back with a body fat analysis gizmo........and we both did it several times to make sure we got a consistent result. My body fat % is 19%. So I am already in the athlete range of 14-20%. The ideal range for my age is around 25-28%.....and I wanted to lose another half a stone!

I've obviously put on some muscle then :) But from now on I shall be a lot less concerned about what the bathroom scales are telling me and don't get me started on BMI ;) My BMI is 26.4 which puts me at overweight.

So I'm 5'4" and 11st. Overweight according to BMI but 19% body fat, a size 12 with a resting heart rate of 65 and perfect blood pressure at 110/60 :) Not bad for a 48 year old!

So I shall shake my booty and not worry about that half a stone.....would be nice to not have to haul it up hills though ;)