I need to lose 15.46 kg of fat (fat not weight read below to see why) and gain 1.45kg of muscle and also lose about 2.72L of water that my body is retaining due to dehydration.
I will start my diet on Monday (start of the week and all that) and hopefully things will start looking up for me. The ketogenic diet will work on me keeping my body in a ketosis where basically, I am getting the body to burn fat/glycogen instead of using carbs or protein (which is gotten from muscle ack!).
So with a deep breath, and throwing myself out there for the public, here's the data (Gosh, this is going to be embarrasing *blush*):
Weight:
Weight (kg) - 73.6 (OMG!! this is the heaviest I've ever been! *sigh*)
Ideal Weight (kg) - 56.7
* The ideal weight doesn't entirely take into account any situational factors like excess water or slightly more fat or more muscle etc.. it pretty much is to the dot of a perfect amount of water, muscle and fat therefore I was told, it is achievable but hard to maintain... Depending on how my weight loss goes, I hope to be able to maintain it within a +/- 2 kg ratio
Skeletal Tissue (kg) - 6.80 (what the hell is skeletal tissue?? sounds a little disgusting.. haha)
Body Mass Index - 28.75 (now obviously BMI is too general to take in different cultures, body type and situation but according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services website, a normal BMI should be between 18.5-24.9)
Fat Mass (This is one of the key points that we will be addressing not the weight, but the content)
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| That is 5 pounds (2.27kg) of Body Fat!!!! YUCK! |
Ideal Fat Mass (kg) - 15.31
Difference from Ideal (kg) - 15.46 (this is the amount that I have to lose! dear lord! i do hope i can lose the exact amount or more if not then it'll be surgery for me.. though i hope to lose at least 10 kg)
% of Total Weight - 41.81%
% of Ideal Fat Mass - 201.00% (eww i'm carrying twice as much as I should be.. or is that 3 times? i get all confused with the percentages thingy so lets just leave it at that)
Active Tissue Mass (Muscles) - (so this would denote the mass of muscles I have in my body, I'm presuming it is lean muscle but what is non - lean muscle? *confuzzlement*.. oh and this is also another point that we are going to address along with the fat content)
ATM (kg) - 20.66 (When I first read it, I thought that ATM meant at the moment and thought, huh... scientific much? but when I typed it out, I thought OH! it means active tissue mass.. duuuuhh... brain fart moment)
Ideal ATM (kg) - 22.11
Difference from Ideal (kg) : (-1.45) (Ack! I'm actually below the ideal muscle mass, which means way more resistance training for me. According to my naturopath, the more muscle we have, the more energy we burn.. i'll have to research why this is so)
% of Total Weight - 28.07%
% of Ideal ATM - 93.44% (actually looking at this percentage makes me feel a little better.. not too far off target)
Optimal Health Indicators (These actually would need a good graph to actually show you what it means but I'll try to explain it properly. It basically shows how healthy/unhealthy my body is by breaking it down into detail)
Phase Angle - 6.41 (a phase angle basically means the health of the cells in the body, don't ask me why they call it a phase angle, i'm no biologist. I'm told by Lindsay that the an ideal number would probably be around the 7.5 mark, so hopefully with this diet, it'll bring the health of my cells back up)
% of Avg. Phase Angle - 97%
Patient Age - 23
Biomarker Index - 29 (I had to brace myself for this. The Biomarker index shows the "actual" age of the body once stress and health and all others are taken into account. This means that my body is actually 29 years old! Lindsay assured me that this would slowly decrease once I start treating my body right so hopefully at some point my body will be back to my chronological age)
Fat/Muscle Ratio - 1.49
Fat Distribution - High Risk (I wasn't explained what this was but high risk sounds pretty scary O.o)
So at this point, there is a small graph thingy of the break down of my body (ATM, Fluid and Hydration) that shows where I sit on the graph (ranging from poor to excellent)
ATM Quality Index (this states the quality of my muscles)
Actual - 94% (The graph is broken down into four sections; poor 65-75%, average 75-85%, above average 85-95% and excellent 95-105%)
According to Lindsay, even though I don't have enough muscle for my ideal body weight etc etc, the actual condition of my muscles is actually very very good considering they obviously have to work slightly harder to carry all the excess fat in addition to not actually having enough of them to spread the work around. She does of course want me to aim to increase the condition of my muscles into the excellent section - 95-105% - but that will come with time of course.
Cellular Fluid Balance (This would be the balance between the intracellular and extracellular fluids)
Actual - 0.05 (Again this is broken down into four sections; excellent (-10) - 0, good 0 - 10, average 10 - 20, poor 20 - 30)
I'm actually at the margin between good and excellent with the goal for me being -10, I think this comes with me keeping my body hydrated etc, not too sure how it works entirely.
Hydration
Actual - 1.33 (Four sections again; Dehydrated 0-1, Marginal 1-2, Hydrated 2-3, Hydrated 3-4)
Sadly this shows that I'm only marginally hydrated. I'm meant to be aiming at the 3-4 section to ensure that my body receives the optimal hydration it needs. I wonder if there's such a thing as over hydration? I'm pretty sure that could be the case)
Fluid Balance (This would be the break down of the cellular fluid balance, I'm presuming :P)
Total Body Water (litres) - 30.41
Total Body Water % - 41.32
Intracellular Water (litres) - 15.22
Intracellular Water % - 50.05 (so this would be the water in my cells opposed to the water on the outside of my cells. My aim is to get this water up to 55%. This would be the water that is full of nutrients for the cells etc etc)
Extracellular Water (litres) - 15.19
Ideal ECW (litres) - 12.47 (viewing this, I actually have about 2.72 litres of fluid retention, meaning because I'm rather dehydrated, my body has retained 2.72L of otherwise not needed water which would mean more weight to carry damn it.)
Extracellular Water % - 49.95 (so although this is good - that is the extracellular water is less than that in the cells, so the nutrients don't seep out of the cells but actually seep into them, using the thought of osmosis where more water = diluted, less water = more nutrients and therefore to balance them up, the nutrients would move from less water to more water bit.. gosh this is such a bad explanation - i apparently have to aim to getting that down to 45%)
Nutritional Requirements (this is a personalized requirement for my own body ONLY)
Energy (calories) - 1695
Energy (kilojoules) - 7099
Water (litres) (minimum) - 1.53
** Add 1 litre per hour of exercise
*** Add 250ml per cup of coffee/caffeinated tea
According to this, I have to drink AT LEAST 1.53L of water just for hydration of the body. Of course if the situation changes and I get some exercise in or drink coffee, which I do every day (coffee that is), I have to add 250 ml to what I HAVE to drink per cup! I see myself going to the toilet every half hour if that's the case.
Phew that was a very very long post of my results BUT that is only for the Bioimpedence Analysis! I have yet to post up the Hemaview report but for the full effects of that, I'd probably have to scan the photos into the computer. It is very interesting.
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