Waistlines: a Bose-Einstein contemplation

[avram]

Since I’m working on gaining muscle while I lose fat, weight alone is not the best indicator of progress (though it is still of use — I’m not going to put on 80 pounds of muscle). I’ve tried measuring my waistline, but the results are too variable. I just tried now, and got 50 inches and 48.5 inches depending on exactly how I ran the tape around my back. I think, short of tattooing a guideline on and getting a friend to run the tape around it, my waistline is going to remain an imprecise quantity, like the position of a particle near absolute zero. Perhaps it’ll get more knowable as my mass decreases.