Monday 26 August 2013

First measurements

All measurements below are in inches
Upper ChestUnder ChestBellyHipsWaistNeck
45.543.2549.7548.2546.2517.75


Right upper armRight lower armRight wristLeft upper armLeft lower armLeft wrist
14.7512.2571611.56.75


Upper right thighRight above kneeRight CalfRight ankleUpper left thighLeft above kneeLeft CalfLeft ankle
27.7519169.52720.5169.5


All measurements below are in stones and pounds
Weight WiiBMI WiiWeight of clothes in wiiWeight scalesBMI ScalesFitness LevelBody FatBody fat percentageh2o
18st 9lb37.5018st 8lb38.5L17st 7lb40.343.5


Brain age 56
Speed of number calculations - 1 minute 45 seconds
Speed of puzzle calculation - 1 minute 56 seconds
Number of words remember in 2 minutes - 5 words

Sunday 25 August 2013

How i will measure the success

Ok to accurately measure the weight and potential brain improvements i am recording the follow

Weight on bmi scales and wii fit.
Torso measurements so i can see if i am getting slimmer.
Leg and arm measurements to see if i am getting thinner and to see if i am getting muscle growth.

To be accurate i am going to measure myself at the same point in the day ie about 9pm this give +/- 1lb discrepancies due to fluctuations in the body during the day.

Torso measurement will be taking the same every time, chest measurement as a woman would take her measurement to find her bra size, belly measurement will be around my belly button, waist at the bottom of my belly, hips right above my manhood, neck around my adams apple this gives +/- 1/2 inch discrepancies due to trying to get the same spot everytime.

Legs measurement will be for the thigh 2 inches above knee cap and 7 inches, and around the calf muscle and around just above my ankle this gives +/- 1/2 inch discrepancies due to trying to get the same spot everytime.

Arm measurement will be taken around bicep and just above my elbow, and just above the wrist this gives +/- 1/2 inch discrepancies due to trying to get the same spot everytime.

Know measuring the brain is little more difficult and harder to measure but i am going to take the same approach, i will test myself at 10pm using a brain age checker, now because it will not always give the same types of question and same questions it will be hard to judge, but at the same time it will show improvement if i am speeding up or getting better brain age.

Why will this be fairly accurate well because i am not going to do brain training to get it so it speeds up and gets more right, secondly because there is no same answer i can not memorise however i will need to test memory but the brain age checker will do that as one of it tests.

New diet about to begin

Just getting ready to start a new diet, but this is the first diet i am doing not just to lose weight i really need to, but because the science of how it works is puzzling me, it should not work but there is plenty of examples of it working, but not only that it is actually causing people to have longer life and reduce risk of cancer etc so i am doing it as experiment on myself and to lose weight.

Friday 23 August 2013

BBC Horizon documentry on intermittent fasting

Below is the video of the BBC Horizon video on intermittent fasting, it goes into the science of it and what research has been done so far, as well as the potential health benefits of this diet.

It also tells you why this is fine to do and goes against our instincts to eat.

BBC Horizon video on intermittent fasting available worldwide

Monday 19 August 2013

Thinking of doing this diet

mmmmm i wonder how well this diet is going to work, as a scientist everything says to me there is no way in hell it can work but apparently there has been a lot of success stories so i am going to give it a try.

anyone interested it is called the fasting diet or 5/2 diet, where you eat normally but do not overeat on 5 days and 2 days you fast ie only have 500 calories in day, there is different ways to do it ie two different days in a week or 2 days in a row, the second bring faster results but that are substantially because you aint really dieting as such by cutting your calories per day your just starving your body for one day and making it eat its own fat