Monday 25 February 2013

Waist Neck Circumference Ratio

My attainable goal was a 27" waist but I guess I was going much too easy on myself because my accurate waist size in accordance to my neck circumference should be 25"....ugh, that is basically 5kg more that needs to be gone, oh my!

It's always that last 5kg, right! Now I have a second 5kg to loose, double ugh.
Sooo, I saw a woman doing this in a shop once, she was an oriental woman, and I never, ever once thought of holding myself to it as an actual standard for my necessary proportionate waist size ......until now, because it just makes sense for obvious proportion reasons, like my pants staying on.
~ Next time you are out shopping for pants/skirts/shorts and don't want to try them on, try this convenient tip:
Take the waist of said item and wrap around your neck, if the folds do not meet, they will not fit, if they overlap they will be too big.
It has been proven, in non-obese [accurately] proportionate subjects, that the neck is an indicator of your own body's appropriate waist size.
example: if your neck circumference is 12.5" then your waist should be 25".
The waist, when measured, was 2x greater than the neck.
*accurate waist measurement on females is at the elbow crease, men measure waist at the belly button.
Conclusion:
As you can see, from the results, albeit very slight, we have gotten a
positive relationship between the circumference of neck and waist.
neckandwaist.blogspot.com 
Recent studies now are focusing more on weight/waist measurement because it may be more accurate using waist circumference than BMI, it is significantly better at gauging cardio-metabolic risk.

Thursday 21 February 2013

Am Back and Back Fatless (eventually)

No, haha, that last picture is not one of my own personal amazing abs and narrow waist line. However, I have not gone backwards and have remained steady holding onto my current waist line for the past months.

No drastic improvements to report except an improvement in diet and exercise. It is now seasonable for me to enjoy eating fresh. I can eat pineapple for breakfast, mangos all day (mangos have heaps of vitA great for skin), bananas, oranges, grapes, cabbage, carrots, tomatoes, cucumbers..... though lettuce and spinach is hard for me to find, oh well, I am feeling full already.
For my protein intake to keep up with my daily exercise (w/o fail), okay I take Sundays off, I drink my 1 egg with/chocolate(milo) milk protein shake. I am all over the eggs right now, w/in reason. Once or twice a week I may eat rotisserie chicken. I will be laying off other meats. I can feel my body craving the opposite of meat and feel the lure of vegetarianism.
I am not tired of eating because I do get hungry but I am tired of digesting a bunch of crap all the time, yay for me. I am looking forward to seeing what sort of result this fresh diet will accomplish for my efforts. I know it is not literally a diet diet but a lifestyle so let's see if we can stick with some consistency, foreveeeerrr, shall we, come on. The only thing in the past that has prevented me in the consistency department is produce availability and lack of good judgement from alcohol and hangovers. I know that's all right. Ahhh, it's good to be back....and hopefully with out any back fat, and I mean none, nada, zilch....eew, you gross back fat rolls, be gone! For good...