Need to understand body fat %!

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  • katiejanecollins
    katiejanecollins Posts: 236 Member
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    IpuffyheartHeelsinthegym wrote: »
    katiejanecollins wrote: »
    IpuffyheartHeelsinthegym wrote: »
    katiejanecollins wrote: »
    I'm 5'3. I don't mind gaining a bit if it allows me to lose fat, I expect that actually as I gained last year when I began to build muscle

    I'm not saying you need to gain weight, but you definitely don't need to lose anymore weight. You can lose body fat while gaining weight and/or staying in maintenance mode, though. Best of luck to you!

    Yeah I don't really want to lose anymore weight, just lose fat :smile:


    in that case, weights and protein are your friends! :) Best of luck, doll!

    Thank you!!
  • marcolbmp
    marcolbmp Posts: 92 Member
    edited February 2015
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    Katie, get yourself an Omron body fat monitor. Change up your regiment to include strength training and instead of measuring your progress by the scale, measure it by the body fat monitor. Just check it every week at the same time of day.
    Basically when you wake up on a Friday morning, weigh yourself, enter that weight in the monitor, check your body fat, record it and base your progress this way.
    I have the Omron HBF306, it's like $30. It doesn't matter how accurate it is, it matters that it's consistent and gives you a baseline number to measure by.

    It'll be easier to quantify the results by that rather than a scale.

    Report back!!
  • katiejanecollins
    katiejanecollins Posts: 236 Member
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    Thanks marcolbmp, I'll check them out!

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