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Tech 26/06/2026 15:00 The Verge Victoria Song

Sometimes, health tracking accuracy is overrated

This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that swear they're going to change your life. Opt in for Optimizer here. About three years ago, a doctor told me I had to lose abdominal fat. She didn't care about my lower […]








I would like to thank a decade of running for my apparently beefy legs.

This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that swear they're going to change your life. Opt in for Optimizer here.
About three years ago, a doctor told me I had to lose abdominal fat. She didn't care about my lower belly fat. That, she said while pinching me, was subcutaneous fat. What she wanted was for me to target about five pounds of fat loss above my belly button because that's where the visceral fat lived. Not weight loss; my BMI and weight, she said, were fine. I needed fat loss because I had borderline high cholesterol and one mildly …
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