Weighed, measured, and found fat
Joe and I have gotten a lot of strange offers since we started writing this blog. Folks have wanted to sell us vitamins and weight loss suppliments. They have wanted to give us free facials and gym memberships (we don't take gifts -- but thanks for the kind offers).
No proposition was quite as horrifying -- and ultimately helpful -- as that of Deanne Gerson, who offered to measure our "skin folds."
It wasn't nearly as scary as I thought it would be. Deanne, a Greensboro College junior and an intern for Get Healthy Guilford, has been learning how to measure body fat percentages. She willingly pinched and prodded my, eh-hem, skin folds to figure out exactly how much fat I'm carrying around.
According to her calculations, I am about 30 percent body fat (given a 3-5 point margin of error). That puts me solidly above average in this department. I should be between 20 and 25 percent. I better get back on that treadmill.
And I'll have to get her to measure me again at the end of this odyssey, to see how much I improve.