🦴 I Got A DEXA Scan

In this week's P.O. Box:

When it comes to health and fitness stuff, I’ve never been a big “tracking” guy.

I’ve never counted calories or cared how many steps I’ve taken in a day.

This approach has its pros and cons.

I find “listening to my body” to be pretty effective on most fronts (mainly because I’ve built up a lot of entrenched habits over the years), but it also makes it hard to optimize for a specific result when you are essentially just vibing.

Because of this, I feel like I’ve been in maintenance mode for a long time. I’m really good at showing up, putting in the work, optimizing for momentum, etc., but I haven’t tried to accomplish anything specific in awhile.

I still don’t have an exact goal in mind, but I thought one way to get the motivational ball rolling would be to get a DEXA scan (an imaging test that measures a variety of things like your bone density and body composition) and an RMR (resting metabolic rate) test.

I had been meaning to do some testing like this for a long time and was recently reminded of it after reading about Shaun Deeb’s million dollar prop bet with Bill Perkins to drop from over 40% body fat to under 17%.

In addition to being curious, I figured getting a baseline for my overall body composition numbers could provide me some extra motivation to dial in my health habits even more this year.

Anyways, on Tuesday I went to an office space in Brookline, MA for an hour, got scanned, and breathed into some tubes. Here are the results…