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Are you Overweight? Check Your Underwear!

Obesity is a problem of fat, not weight. The generalization that being overweight is the same as being fat can be misleading. Bulky muscles can add to weight, but people with those muscles may have very little fat on their bodies.

The object of weight reduction is to lose excess fat without reducing your lean tissues: your muscles, bones and blood. All of these tissues increase with exercise training. While you’re losing fat you’re gaining valuable tissue. On the scales, your weight may go up instead of down, because the useful tissue you’re replacing. But take a look in the mirror!

It’s the fat in your waistline, hips and thighs you should look at. The true index is your belt size and your skirt or trousers size. As fat comes off, these sizes diminish. When your skirt or trousers get tight, you’re getting fat. When they become loose, you’re losing fat.

For men particularly, the question is not whether they’re overweight, it’s whether they’re overwaist. Men characteristically distribute their fat around their centre of gravity when they start to put on weight.

Measuring the waist with a tape measure can give a highly inaccurate reading unless certain practices are followed. The abdomen must be in a normal state, neither sucked in nor pushed out. The pelvis must be level. The tape must be placed at the belt line, just above the crests of the pelvis, and be horizontal all around. The best method is not to put the tape around your waist, but to use a belt; take in the notches of the belt until it fits snugly but not tightly, the remove the belt and measure it.

But in the case of men a tape measure isn’t really necessary. There’s a simpler measure yet - the size underwear that they buy. If you are a man who weighs 12st 21b and you can’t comfortably get into a size 35 in or 89 cm waist brief, then you’re carrying too much fat. You needn’t be more specific than that.
For men, we can actually make up a table comparing their weight to their waistline girth. To find out how you measure up, simply draw a line between weight and waist size. If the line slops down, you’re fat. A level line, or one sloping up, means your waist is all right.

Men have a fairly uniform body construction, and a fairly uniform distribution of fat throughout their bodies. As a consequences, when two men whose normal weight should be the same suddenly begin to gain weight, one because he’s gaining fat, the other because he’s gaining muscle, the first will gain in the waist, and the second won’t.

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