Tough time of year; striving to stay the course

[Tmdlkwd]

I don’t know where or how to get a DEXA SCAN. Is that the same as getting your BF checked?

Not at all the same
Here’s some info on a DEXA Scan
Prices vary…depending on where you live
$49-$150 tops

I get mine here …for $49 in SoCal🙂

https://www.bodyspec.com/

What Are DXA Scans?

Dual-energy absorptiometry what?

A BodySpec DXA scan (also known as a DEXA scan) is a simple, 10-minute body fat test that takes a comprehensive snapshot of your exact breakdown of bone, fat tissue, and muscle mass. The DXA scan is the most accurate and precise body fat test available.

x-ray absorptiometry . Our DXA scans are performed using the same medical-grade machine used by hospitals, universities, and professional athletic facilities. The DXA uses very weak x-ray beams to detect the composition of each square inch of your body. These results are interpreted and aggregated to give you not only a total body fat percentage, but also complete visualization and analysis of your lean tissue and bone density.

Why get a DXA scan?

A DXA scan answers the question,
What are you made of?Knowing your body composition gives you the information you need to:

• Understand your body’s individual needs, strengths and weaknesses with respect to training, diet, and overall health

• Visualize and pinpoint the exact impact of a new training or diet plan down to exact muscle gains and fat loss in specific areas of the body

• Make decisions about adjusting and optimizing your program to suit your body’s specific responses

• Compare your bone health to others of your age, gender and ethnicity

• Identify personal long-term health risks

Procedure

1. Make a DXA appointment online. An appointment is required, but it’s very easy to make, and you can cancel or change up to 24 hours beforehand.
2. For highest accuracy of results, come in clothes without metal. Workout clothes work great! If you plan to scan multiple times, try to do it under the same circumstances each time (time of day, food, exercise, etc).
3. Lie down on our scanner for about 10 minutes. You’ll receive your results immediately.
4. A consultant will sit with you for another 10 minutes to review your results and answer questions.

Additionally, if you have recently had a barium x-ray, a nuclear medicine scan, or any other x-ray procedure involving ingestion or injection of a tracer substance, please wait at least 2 weeks after that procedure before scheduling a DXA scan.

Finally, if you are pregnant, please do not sign up for a DXA scan.

[ctviggen]

I paid $500 for three scans. I got them specifically because I had shoulder surgery, and after I recovered from that (4 weeks in a sling then no lifting more than a coffee cup for months then no lifting more than 10 pounds for months…not sleeping well, etc.), I found my scale weights dramatically increasing. I couldn’t understand why.

I realize now that I had lost tons of muscle mass because both shoulders hurt before the surgery, and I was still exercising, but not on upper body. Then I had surgery and could do no exercise for a month. My scale weight was low before surgery and kept getting higher…probably because I was getting muscle back.

The DEXA scans were to see what was actually happening. The scale is useless for muscle mass, for instance.

I’m almost back to the “low” weight I was before should surgery, but I am much stronger than I was then.

I have been able to find slightly cheaper scans ($150), but I have to drive to get them done. If they weren’t so expensive, I’d get another done just to see what has really happened.

[michaelwolfnyc]

@stokiesgoneketo Amazing that you’re down 120! The last thing you need is the stress of trying to lose more weight given how much stress you’re under already. If nothing else, stress makes weight loss really hard. Maybe for the next few months you just try to maintain your astounding weight loss? Of course stay keto so that you don’t go back up 120! Just focus on complying so that it becomes easy and non-stressful to rarely binge or go off the program. Remember every day that you are down 120, and learn to celebrate that … and relax. Take a breather, but a keto breather. Then, when pressures ease up a bit and the time is right, you can crush it with fasting or zero carb or whatever you’d like to try to take you to the next level. Actually, you say you’re maintaining despite stress and not-perfect compliance, which puts you ahead of the game. Maybe you’ll start losing weight without trying when one or both of those improve!

[vialis]

Totally bad from january 19 up to now !!! Nothing has gone smoothly and my keto will is at its lowest. But all the people of the forum had been amazing! Keep up keto and hang to your school size… Depression and losses ask a lot from us. Take care