Hi!

I was in London a couple of weeks ago for a family reunion, and took the opportunity to wiggle along for another DEXA scan. My last was a year ago. On the positive side, I’ve put on about 2.4kg of ‘lean tissue’ (the scan can identify fat, bone, and ‘lean tissue’, which is everything else), mostly in the upper torso. So all that weight training and eating protein is paying off. And my overall fat percentage has come down from 24.8% in May 2024, to 21.5% now. Great.

But my genetics put the remaining fat mostly in my viscera, the absolutely worst place to have it. Subcutaneous fat isn’t such a big health problem, in reasonable amounts. But visceral fat is bad for inflammation, blood lipids, diabetes risk, the works. And it seems that’s where I store it. So I’m taking 100 days off alcohol, starting on August 19th. I’ve written up a great long blog post with all the details (the pros and cons, why alcohol specifically, the scan results, everything) on my blog here. Feel free to share, as always.