I’ve been spending very little time thinking about diet or training and I’ve managed to resist the urge to do any reading on the subject. I set the plan and just got on with it. It seems to have paid off!
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Leptin Rx – 8 Week Review
It’s not quite 8 weeks but curiosity got the better of me so I did another DXA scan which seems an appropriate time for a quick review. Continue reading
DXA Total Body Scan
Dual-emission X-ray absorptiometry or DXA to his friends is a medical device used to measure bone density. It’s main use is to diagnose and assess osteoporosis. What interested me was that it can also be used to measure total body composition including fat content.
There seems to be some debate about it’s accuracy in calculating fat mass. I don’t have access to hydrostatic weighing, callipers are too fiddly and the consumer
scales and handheld devices are far from accurate. So I’m very happy to rely on the DXA.
The scan took a total of 12 minutes and the machine doesn’t make any horrific noises and despite my feet being strapped together I found it fairly easy to relax but perhaps that says something about me?
