The scale.

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I thought the only additional reading from the new scale would be bmi.  Sadly (not) mistaken.  Beside weight and bmi, the device measures water hydration, skeletal muscle mass, and bone mass?  That is what the manual suggests.

I did get a shower in this morning, finally.  Before taking the shower, I set up the scale, figured out how to get it to use my setup, and then stepped on it.  Not sure how accurate, or not, it was, I always weighed myself on my old scale.  The two had the same weight.  So, yes, that is good enough for me, on that measure.

The other measures?  I have no way of telling.  I simply don't have secondary ways of measuring those.

On the good side?  Most of those measurements suggested good things, relatively.

BMI was 22.7% (It had been 29% at 285 to 315, from doctor office readings, and other scales, blood tests, and whatnot).  Water hydration is the one exception.  It reads at 32.7%, while suggesting for my age and sex I should be at least 37.8, and that is the bottom of the low range, with the higher range being up to 66%.  Not sure if that is absolutely possible, being on waterpills though?  

Skeletal muscle mass sort of surprised me.  I had thought I had lost a lot, maybe too much, from longer fasting.  Because of nausea earlier in the program, and off and on recently from my inability to cook, or stay up on food from the stores.  But, no, not bad at 34.6%, which is on the slightly lower end of the "healthy" range.

As to bone mass, that too was good.  I think.  It suggests eight pounds for people just fifteen pounds less than what I weigh, though for my ideal weight (if that from a broken medical system) is closer to 7.5 pounds, while my (measured) bone mass is 12.8 pounds.

So, everything is, to my mind, very good.  Even the bmi, while on the higher side, is within the healthy range (for my age).  Are these accurate, precise?  I don't know.  But, given the weight being right on, I'll give the thing the benefit of the doubt.

The question, though, now, to me?  Can I increase hydration, on the waterpills, without causing too much leg and torso swelling?  Or other issues?  That may just be as good as it can get, without damaging me?  I just don't know.  I'm already taking electrolytes, and drinking between half a gallon and a gallon and a half of water a day.  Ugh.

Still, three out of four isn't bad... given all the other givens.  I am weighing in at 239.  Mostly water weight even then, to be that high.  Even with compression socks.  My last doctor cut my potassium, so I cut the waterpills from two to one, as a previous doctor had me taking as many potassium as waterpills.  I think he messed it up.  On purpose?  I... think he was causing problems with people he didn't like.  And... he didn't like me.  I'll see if my new primary care can try to replace what the other doctor eliminated.  Though, so far, he hasn't been able to get anything.  Nor have the other doctors.  The fish oil, medical grade, was rejected.  As has everything from every doctor I have seen here locally, so far.  Not holding my breath... but that is a complication.  Bleh.

Later.