Body fat reading

laura19829
laura19829 Posts: 4 Member
edited November 17 in Health and Weight Loss
Hi everyone. My PT has done my body fat reading and on my latest one I entered my weight wrong as my scales were broken and I didn't realise - I'm about 6lbs heavier than I thought (I'm so upset!!!). Does the weight impact the % result? So it says my bodyfat is 23.7% is that the percentage irrelevant to my weight and does it just reference the weight when it gives you the fat, lean tissue in kgs? If any of that makes sense. Thanks

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  • usmcmp
    usmcmp Posts: 21,219 Member
    What kind of body fat reading is your PT doing? Is it one of those things you hold in your hands and it spits out a number? If it's that kind those things are really inaccurate. Rather than worrying about the number there focus on tape measure to measure fat loss.
  • laura19829
    laura19829 Posts: 4 Member
    It's a quadscan reader so not sure how accurate that is.
  • sijomial
    sijomial Posts: 19,809 Member
    laura19829 wrote: »
    It's a quadscan reader so not sure how accurate that is.

    A BIA device.
    The inherent inaccuracies are so wide that putting in your weight wrong by 6lbs isn't going to make much of a difference.
    Using them at the gym is just about the worst time & place to get an accurate trend as well - hydration level changes mess with them terribly.
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