I hadn't read that article but I did read another by IronAddict at that site that had some of those points. This was more detailed. I read it twice and see that I am doing a lot of it.
I measure waking temperature, waking heart rate and waking blood pressure as well as record hours of sleep. I don't do this to gauge my metabolism per se but to determine whether as a measure of whether I am starting to overtrain. I have found that temp/heart rate/b.p. tend to go up the next day after a high volume/high intensity workout but then drop after a day of rest.
Interestingly, IronAddict states that "... SOME people have a naturally lower basal body temperature, so what will appear as low for a normal person will be the norm for a person with the low body temperature type metabolism." I am one of the SOME, always have been. My temp ranges from 96-97.5 with 96.5 being average. My thyroid is fine and I never thought that this was the reason for slow metabolism. In fact, I never blamed poor metabolism for being overfat until a few years ago. And even then, I thought is was due to loss of lean body mass. Over the last 18 months, I have gained about 20lb of LBM while lost about 15lb of fat. Current goal is to maintain LBM and lose 8-10 lb of fat.
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