Tere!
Do you have a body fat scale? It’s a type of scale with which you can measure not only weight and fat rate/weight but also skeletal muscle rate/weight, body age, body water, etc. (The measurable items can be different depending on body fat scales.) You can buy a home body fat scale at a reasonable price, and it’s easy to measure. On the other hand it is not super accurate. Therefore, I went to Myfitness which is the biggest chain gym in Estonia (or even in the Baltics?) to analyse my body composition!!
Table of Contents
1. The very original reason: diet
2. Not only weight is important
3. How can you analyse your body composition in Tallinn, Estonia?
4. Body composition analysis at Myfitness
★Summary
1. The very original reason: diet
Around in 2019, I used to go to the cheapest gym in Estonia called “Gym!” (paying 15 EUR per month with a one-year contract at that time), but I terminated the contract after one year due to the depression. Then in October 2021, I rejoined Gym!, and started to try to lose weight, but I lost only a couple of kilos regardless of the diet (eating) and exercise. After losing a few kilos, there had been no change until January 2022.
When I came to Estonia (2017), I was less fat than who I was at this time (2021), but due to the atypical depression, I could eat only a specific food. This is the reason why I gained weight. Furthermore, what I was able to eat at that time was biscuits. Furthermore + more, it was something like Oreo. I bought fresh foods but I couldn’t eat because I had no energy to cook, so obviously I gained weight. (I didn’t want to gain weight, so I had a mind to manage and control the amount, but it was still sweet.)
Then I talked to my psychologist at that time about it, and she gave me a list of foods that boost serotonin. For the present, I started eating fruits when I wanted to eat something sweet. Then I started a new job as well as a new Estonian language course, which made me feel as if I had started a new life. For this reason, I gain energy and motivation to resume going to the gym.
In the past, quite a long time ago, I once tried to lose weight, switching the meal plans in the morning and in the evening, and ran after waking up. Since in this way I lost some weight, I tried the same thing again, but there was no satisfactory result. (I personally don’t consider a couple of losses in kilo as an actual weight loss.)
So, I decided to try a ketogenic diet which I had doubted until then, starting at the end of February, 2022. As a result, I lost a lot. (Literally a lot. Although I don’t mention the exact amount here yet.)
To sum up, the diet to lose weight is the very beginning.
2. Not only weight is important
While being on a diet, since I lost quite a lot of weight, I started to pay attention to details such as weight in detailed digits, body fat, muscle mass, etc. Then I bought acme’s body fat scale, and showed the first measured result partially to my boyfriend, and he said
“These numbers are impossible lol”
😂
I did agree with him though.
I wondered if the body fat scale was broken, so I requested to replace it with a new one, but I found that this body fat scale had a very low quality as a body fat scale.
3. How can you analyse your body composition in Tallinn, Estonia?
Even though I understand that with a home body fat scale we cannot measure very accurately, I still wanted to see numbers as accurately as possible. For this reason, I thought before buying a new body fat scale, I should analyse my body composition in a professional way so that I can have a precise date to compare. Then I googled where in Tallinn, Estonia I could get a body composition analysis, and got results that it is possible not only in a medical centre like Confido but also in a gym or spa (in which there is a gym).
As expected, I didn’t choose Confido’s body composition analysis as it cost 50 EUR, but I found in Viimsi Spa a non-gym member could get a body composition analysis for 18 EUR. So I contacted a trainer, and yet because the facility had been under preparation even after waiting for one month, I decided to contact Kalev Spa in Tallinn.
I still have not received any replies.
So I googled the biggest gym, Myfitness, I found the service! Once I contacted them, the communication was so smooth.
4. Body composition analysis at Myfitness
On the day I booked a body composition analysis, I went to one of the gyms of Myfitness in Tallinn. Before the body composition analysis began, they lended me a key and a paddle lock for a locker..
Then I went to the trainer’s room. The first thing that I did was to measure my height.
I didn’t get shorter. 😂
I was still 162 cm.
Then I measured my body with a professional fat scale with 99% accuracy, and immediately I got a result.
The trainer explained everything in the result paper, and my findings are:
- My body composition is average in all the items
- I should gain a bit more muscle.
(By the way, the result paper was in Estonian, and the trainer was Egyptian.)
When I had this body composition analysis, it was 6.30 in the evening, so of course I gained around 2kg compared to the weight I checked in the morning at that time. However, I’m pretty sure and I also made sure with the trainer that a human gains 1 to 2 kg during the day than the weight when waking up, so it’s not fat but water.
I thought 15 minutes is short for the body composition analysis when I booked an appointment, but it wasn’t that short, but rather quite satisfactory in terms of both time and contents. Besides, it cost only 15 EUR. Payment is done when visiting the reception before the analysis.
★ Summary
Although it’s not expensive, I still got the necessary information, and I think I want to check regularly. After this, I bought a new (Renpho’s) fat scale, but it showed me 2% more fat than the accurate result from Myfitness. On the one hand, I’m more satisfied with this new fat scale and it’s good enough for daily use, and on the other hand as long as I want to measure precisely, checking the analysis at Myfitness is quite a good idea I believe.
Aitäh! 🙂
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