No pain, no gain! You know that's always been my motto, and never more so than these last two weeks. Three times last week and every day this week I have been to the gym downstairs.

There is this fancy set of scales there which tells you how much you weigh and how much body fat you are carrying. So first the weight - well I was 16 stone 8 pounds when I left the UK and am now about 16 stone 1 pound. I say 'about' because they use metric over here. I think that this is a combination of my gym trips and the diet, which is virtually fat free, except for the beer!

Now the body fat - well this tells me that I am 33% fat. Healthy men should have between 10 and 25% fat, and anything over 30% is obese. So I am 3% obese! To be honest I thought that it would be loads more than that so I was vaguely pleased. My first target then is to not be obese, which I guess will mean I am just plain overweight.

Posted on 12 September 2003.

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