Are there any other thin girls who have an insanely high BF%?

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  • milocamolly
    milocamolly Posts: 91 Member
    edited May 2015
    Op quit comparing yourself to your friends! Your frieken 5'5" and 110lbs and can eat crap...yes your great genetics are at play here which are keeping you thin! Seriously tho just start a strength training routine and eat more protein, soon you will see more definition. I wish I was I was able to eat junk and be thin but I have to count my calories and work out to lose weight. Good luck just focus on the weights and firm up, I'm sure your body fat percentage isn't as much as you think it is. Good luck!
  • Psychgrrl
    Psychgrrl Posts: 3,177 Member
    Here's the entire chart with numbers for both men and women. Fitness athletes who train for competition only maintain the low level of body fat for competition season. The 10-13% essential body fat level isn't a 365 day sustainable thing for women. Women do need more body fat than men due to hormones and ovulation. I'd really get a reading of your body fat so you have a baseline. It might not be as high as you think.

    http://www.builtlean.com/2010/08/03/ideal-body-fat-percentage-chart/
  • Sued0nim
    Sued0nim Posts: 17,456 Member
    That built lean site ALWAYS crashes my iPad

  • 47Jacqueline
    47Jacqueline Posts: 6,993 Member
    edited May 2015
    This quote from that site: "Older individuals tend to have a lower body density for the same skinfold measurements, which is assumed to indicate a higher body fat percentage. Older, athletic individuals, however, might not fit this assumption because their body density may be underestimated."

    Recently my body fat read 34% on the bone density meter, but I'm an athlete. That device doesn't have a setting for women over 59 - it assumes you are not an athlete after that, so they couldn't measure me correctly for my activity level. If I go by the visual chart, my body looks like I'm between 20 - 22%.

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    All I know for sure is that at 127lb and 5'4", I wear a size 4.
  • more_productive
    more_productive Posts: 6 Member
    MrM27 wrote: »
    katiem555 wrote: »
    stevencloser wrote: »
    katiem555 wrote: »
    lemonsnowdrop wrote: »
    OP, what you eat doesn't determine your BF% as long as you eat enough protein. Define "eat like ***."

    Simple carbs/ starchy *kitten*/ sugary *kitten* will increase your BF%. You're wrong. There's a reason body builders drastically reduce their carbohydrate intake when they're cutting.

    It won't if you're not eating at a surplus.

    yeah, it will. if you're not eating the right amount of protein to sustain your muscle mass then you'll lose it. and if you're only eating within your maintenance and you're eating too many carbs, then you can't possibly get enough protein. that, and many other factors. isn't this like a universally accepted given? an excess of carbs is like exactly what you need to avoid to get lean
    more_productive wrote: »
    TheOwlhouseDesigns wrote: »
    and btw my last posting and reaction was to @more_productive who found it necessary to be rude and to send me out reading and come back when i knew more about it.

    Because you do need to "[know] more about it"

    It's really obvious that you don't know what you're talking about when you can't make the distinction between the volume of fat and the fat:muscle ratio...
    Someone could be 60lbs and still have an abnormally high bfp if they were 40% fat

    Uhhhh nope. 60 lbs and 40% bf, not possible.


    It's called hyperbole...

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