Saturday, February 25, 2006

While David and I were in the queue at our local Boots David spotted one of those body fat calculator gadgets that will work out the percentage of fat that makes up your body. You put in some basic details and put your thumbs on the special metal pads and it tells you the gory details.

Being suckers for a gadget (and because we'd saved a fiver on skincare products) we forked out the £4.99 so that we could find out, in the privacy of our bathroom, how how much fat was hanging around where it shouldn't be.

Once safely locked up at home we do a bit of weighing, a bit of number crunching to convert the measurements into metric and then stick our digits onto the sensors. Four seconds later and our happiness and self-esteem sink through the floor as it tells us we're seconds away from an early death or words to that effect.

Considering that I've lost over 2 stone during the last six months I'd hate to think what the results would have been then; maybe it would have just put a call into the emergency services automatically.

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