JJ Virgin
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And I know I'm not like... We have to know what our weight is made up of. And if we did that, if we used a scale as a biometric tool rather than as a mean friend, right? And we really had all the information, it would shift so much. And then you'd also be able to see what's your best body composition for you. I've always been a super muscular person. I'm an adopted gal.
When I met my birth mom, she had the same body type. That is our body type. I always wanted to be the curvy one. I'm not the curvy one. I could try as hard as I wanted. If I gain weight, I just get wider. I don't get curvy. Doesn't happen. So we all have to find that best body type for us.
And then monitor with body composition to make sure that we are holding on to our muscle to, as we know, like bone density is a lagging indicator of poor muscle mass, that we have quality muscle. Because it's not just about having muscle. You don't want fat infiltrated muscle. You don't want to be a ribeye. You want to be a fillet. And that our body fat is not dangerous.
There's a huge difference between having body fat on your thighs and hips and having body fat around your viscera, right? So we want to make sure that we have body fat in the right places. So we can't tell that with a scale. And I can't tell you how many people DM me on Instagram saying, well, this isn't working. I go, but you... you know, tell me what your body composition is.
They go, we haven't tested. I go, then I don't, how do you know? You don't know. You have no idea by just stepping on the scale what's happening here. You can't see under the hood. So we have to know our starting points. I mean, same with food. If you're going to be making sure that you're getting the right amount of protein and you have to weigh it, how would you know?
Even dieticians tend to underestimate what they eat by 25%. If they're not doing it, How does the average person have any idea of eyeballing how much food that they're eating, right? So in every one of these things doesn't mean you have to do it forever. Although I think we should be managing body composition forever. We should do that. That should be something that's just part of your routine.
And the research bears that out that those people maintain their weight better.
in terms of measuring your body composition what's available to us in the tools that are out there for first us to get a baseline and then track our progress along the way so the very best is cost prohibitive is would be an mri so the best i think for what we have is dexa and i mean those are so easy to get now and even if you just did it once a year
Think about like this used to be something you only did for bone mineral density and you didn't do it until you were in your late 50s, early 60s to show that you had osteoporosis. So it's like let's go see that the eggs are cracked. It's so ridiculous. You can't uncrack them.
So this is something that we should be doing in teens when we can actually start to make a demonstrable difference in bone mineral density. So if we started doing this, let's say someone did this in their teens and it was just part of the annual physical, like they did that, they did a VO2 max and some push-up tests, imagine how amazing this would be.
And then ideally, once you hit 40 plus, maybe every six months, but then what you can do is correlate it. So at home, you could get a bioimpedance scale. So DEXA is going to be the best thing that you could do. Typically, you have to go to like a clinic or a doctor's office. There's a lot of centers. Not expensive. They're now under $100. A lot of doctors now have something called an in-body scan.
And an in-body is bioimpedance, which is based on total body water. And it sends a wave up your body and tests the resistance to it. And the resistance to it is how much body fat. It predicts body fat and predicts it in specific areas. So it's predictive.
based on total body water, which means that if your total body water is lower that day, you're dehydrated, you will look like you are fatter, right? You've got more body fat. If you're super hydrated, you'll look like you have less body fat, but your weight will go up. So this is where this is a little bit challenging because we fluctuate, right?
And this is why what I like to do is have someone have a bioimpedance scale at home They do their DEXA, they come home, they check where they are at home for over a week, every single day, they get that average and they can correlate it. I know that my DEXA reads me lower than my at home scale by a couple percentage points, right?
But I can use my at home scale just to make sure that I'm staying where I wanna be. And what I think we should do is just have a Bluetooth. You don't even have to look at it if this makes you nuts.
But you just take the average over a week because you cannot look at your weight every day and make any kind of intelligent decision because weight fluctuates a couple, you know, can go up a couple pounds, down a couple pounds based on what you ate, right? Or if you traveled. So we don't look at the daily to make a decision or beat ourselves up.
We look at the average over a week and then once a week do measurements as well, do that waist and hip to look at it as well. But what we're looking for is am I losing body fat and specifically body fat around my waist? Am I able to hold on to or build muscle? Those are the things we've got to look at and make the decisions based on.
Right. And I think with this tracking, I'm really talking about food tracking, although I really think we should be tracking food, sleep, stress, movement, and body composition. That's a lot. Now, here's the thing. Don't have to track those all forever. However, as you're learning about your body, these things are fantastic. So step one.
Now, when we talk about tracking food, this doesn't mean you have to track your food forever. But I think as you're starting, you need to track your food for at least a month. And what I like to do is you've got to get a food scale. They're $10. So this isn't something that's hard to do. It's even more important than the measuring. You've got to weigh. So for one month, you start out.
And the first thing I have people do is just... get their protein optimized, eat protein first, and track and focus on that. We haven't changed anything else. All we're focusing on is tracking what you're eating and making sure you're getting the right amount of protein.
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