“Measuring weight is easy. Measuring body fat not so much.... So David hopped into an egg-shaped device called the BOD POD to get a more precise measure of his body fat.”
“I sat down with the CEO of Fitnescity, Laila Zemrani to talk about how to measure body fat without being immersed in water. Here’s our conversation.”
Numbers don’t lie. But looking at the wrong number does not deliver results. For David, the number is not weight--it’s fat--a that is a lot harder number to truly see. So he goes to an expert in assessment, Laila Zemrani at Fitnescity. And the BOD POD delivers different results that calipers ever did. In this podcast, Ryan and David review the results and talk about next steps, the two kinds of body fat and the importance of sticking to a plan. Then Ryan helps listener Brandon take his first steps towards becoming physically fit.
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Author
Laila Zemrani
Bio
Laila is the Co-founder and CEO of Fitnescity.
She is an early adopter and advocate of personal health tracking. Her work on the topic has appeared in numerous media outlets and venues such as Stanford Medicine X, MIT, NYU, Harvard, Forbes, the United Nations, Future Healthcare Week and HyperWellbeing. She was named one of the top 18 female leaders in the NYC Tech Scene, a Legatum fellow in Entrepreneurial Leadership and a MasterCard Foundation fellow at MIT. Prior to Fitnescity, she was a founding employee at Dataxis, a global data analysis firm. Laila has an MBA from MIT Sloan. As an undergraduate, she studied engineering and management at Télécom ParisTech.