Saturday, February 22, 2025

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As I mentioned, I ordered Liz's scale. Amazingly it came yesterday afternoon. I set it up. It's going back in the box and will be returned. The metrics are quite off from my DEXA Scan results. This scale has me having super low muscle mass, a higher fat percentage and a grand total of 7 pounds of bone in my entire body. DEXA scan results have me at an above average body fat percentage, but also in the 95% of muscle mass for my age and my bone density is magnificent. Then we put Ron on the scale to check his metics. He holds his fat differently from me. He is very, very apple shaped. Ron's metrics were also quite off. We know he has lower bone density from previous testing. Well, not according to this scale. His body fat percentage was about the same as mine, but he had double the bone weight, which would be quite odd given what we know. So, the best we can figure is that it measured hydration levels in us both, used some type of algorithm to figure out what we 'should' be and calculated. I will stick to using a quarterly DEXA Scan, mirror, clothing, and current bathroom scale to keep track of my progress.

Did a really nice push pull workout yesterday. I am figuring that 4 days of resistance training should start showing results in a few months, IF I keep working on changing the eating disorder behaviors. Doing my best!!!!

Ann, I will have to look at the video about inversion thinking. I understand what you did, but not sure exactly how that premise might work. I think I am still missing something.

I do try to keep politics out of my on line life and not let politics affect my relationships. Friends, I am struggling. Perhaps because I grew up in a time during which homosexuality was still very much taboo and I spent a lot of time as an "invisible" minority-at times concerned for my physical safety-I am more sensitive to what I see happening in our country. I truly am worried. Economy comes and goes. I get that. But the disregard for humanitarian issues and utter disrespect for the working classes is egregious. If I were the parent of a gay, trans, or gender fluid person I would be so worried about their safety and future status as part of our citizenry. I don't know if anyone here read Elon Musk's rant on X about our country's billionaires being tired of footing the bill for workers in the USA. It was stunning. The audacity to suggest that if we want health care we should befriend a doctor, or that should we want entertainment we should get in the mud and wrestle with pigs is unimaginable to me. This is the type of thinking that is running our country.

Well, on that positive note... Have a wonderful weekend.

Peps, I have wondered how some of the rhetoric is landing on you. I have a seat somewhat out of the rain, being a gender conforming, heterosexual white middle class woman. No one is saying I don't have a right to exist or threatening the legality of my marriage or the legitimacy of who I love.

I do remember in the 80s feeling like it was open season on women, but maybe it still is, and it was my age that made me vulnerable. Just one small example, I was at a college party and some guy goosed me. DH (boyfriend at the time) was with me, and I turned to him and said, that guy just goosed me! DH yelled at him, and the dude apologized to DH, said he didn't realize we were together!! So I do have some of that fear of what can happen to a marginalized group. INCEL rhetoric sometimes has me terrified for my daughter and the entitlement some of these weirdos feel they have to "females". And they're feeling pretty emboldened right now, posting "your body, my choice" all over the internet.

And then there are the fears for people who are quite different from me. Oh my students! Are they and their families going to make it through this? My non gendered young folks, or my 30 year old friends who are transitioned.

It's ugly out there. I have to believe that good eventually prevails, but at what cost before it does win?

Agreed. Seems like the social progress of the last 50 years is getting tossed. It is hard to accomplish social change and so easy to tra**** Discouraging. ds

I had to look up INCEL... that one had not crossed my path before, but now I know. In my world I refer to them as Creepers, but I know exactly the type of mentally tweaked misogynistic male you mean.

I forget that women were/are treated like objects in this country. I was raised in a liberal household, in a liberal area (my dad was getting his PhD at UC Berkeley in the early 70s) and lived in a region that celebrated the work of Dr. King and embraced the Women's Lib movement. Women being treated as objects is outside of my personal experience. I am grateful for the reminder that it does.

Yes! My kids are struggling big time in this political climate. Not just LGBTQ+ issues but all of the government funding cuts. Will affect us too!

Interesting feedback on the scale! Seems related to CC's comment on hydration. My impression is that all these scales work essentially the same way so if you want true numbers it does sound like the DEXA scan is the way to go. I'll keep it because I needed a new scale and it will be interesting to see what it shows for trends over time.

I am worried about many issues related to the current political environment including those which may directly affect my children. I can't find Musk's full rant on X (because I'm not on it), just news stories paraphrasing it. Is it available anywhere else?

Let me see if I can find it again. If I do, I will post a link for you.