Oh Dang Girl, You Thick!

It's fund raising time for the UVU Cycling Team. We've gone through some trial and error campaigns in the past few months. Selling T-shirts (which is like beating a dead horse) and BBQ Cook-Off's at races (those burgers were heavenly, but you can only sell so many greasy fatty death sandwiches at a cycling event... turns out the demographic tends to be a rather healthy breed). So, we thought the residents of Utah Valley could use some helpful information, like learning how fat they are!
How is this done? We opened up the UVU Hydrostatic Body Fat testing equipment to all the sorry souls willing to pay to be told their body fat percentage (BF%).

The process is simple:
1) Check in
2) Step on the dreadful scale to be weighed and measured
3) Strip to your bare minimums (swimsuits) and hop in the big metal tub full of water
4) Dry off and change while we do some mathematical equations and other smart person stuff
5) Go through the scrutiny of having everyone in the room know your BF%
-Optional step #6) Leave the room holding back tears (j/k nobody did that..... I don't think...)

Now, it's usually at step #3 that the visual BF% test is conducted and its proven to be fairly accurate. Of course we don't ever verbalize the results of the "Ocular BF% Test" but the ratings ranged anywhere from "Too Hot to Handle" all the way to "Oh Dang Girl, You Thick!" (The Ocular Test is for females only).
In all seriousness, we conducted ourselves with as much professionalism as possible. I gained a new respect for doctors, having to be the barer of bad health news. Telling someone that their BF% is a certain number is fine, until it  breaches the "obesity" category (>25% for men, and >30% for women). Being the messenger of the data isn't always a walk in the park, especially when telling someone they are obese is like telling them they've got the HIV or some other STD, and they never knew it. Some conversations went as follows:

"Yeah, so... It looks like you're in the obese category... What's that?.... Yes, obese..."

"Alright, you just joined more than half of the Americans in the Obesity Club!"

"Hey, look at that... you're fat!"

...... Awkward silence.......

Besides the delicate obesity subject, everything else made for a good time.
(Random thing learned today: Breast Augmentations will throw off BF% results as they are extremely buoyant)