Body Mass Index

According to Dr Steve Nugent in his book "The Genetic Key Diet" he suggest you return to the original recommendation of percent body fat and inches to keep track of weight.

'.......When you start on the system, weigh yourself the first day Then, using a tailor's tape, measure the appropriate areas of the body. Once a week, re-measure each area. Measure your progress in inches, not pounds. If you wish to weigh yourself, do so no more frequently than once per week and only first think in the morning. Even then, scale weight is still not a very accurate gauge of healthy body composition.

Weight loss plans that advertise weight loss as much as a pound a day, or ten pounds a week, are plans that are clearly not measuring fat loss. It will be almost physiologically impossible to lose more than two pounds of pure body fat per seven-day period. There may be rare exceptions but they will be rare indeed. If you are losing more than that, then you are displacing water, and perhaps cannibalizing muscle tissue as fuel. And in some cases, you may also lose bone mass on diets, if these diets are not properly balanced and have the proper dietary supplements. Bone is highly nutritious, not as nutritious as muscle but more nutritious than fat so the body will eat muscle, bone, then fat, in that order when it's starving for nutrients.....'

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