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.

Comments

[mamishka.livejournal.com]

Personally I would recommend using your clothes as a guide. That's the only actual loss you're going to be interested in anyways, or at least that's the only loss that tends to affect me. Maybe pick out a pair of shorts or pants that are kinda tight and use those as your guideline. If my jeans are suddenly hard to put on, then it's clear I've gained weight. Okay to put on, then I'm where I was, and getting a bit loose, well heck maybe I've lost some inches!

Of course none of my efforts thus far have done a damn thing ... no pounds or inches lost. Bleh. Depressing.

[avram]

All my underwear feels looser than it used to, so that’s something. It’s not at the falling-down point yet. (Well, some of it was, but I threw all those out months ago.)