Online body fat calculators

katiefraay

How accurate are they, because I got mine tested my a nutritionist a month ago and then did an online measurement based one today, and I lost 3% points of fat, is this possible?

kao708

I don't think you can accurately guage body fat online.

ohwhataday

I am also a little skeptical. I suppose you could estimate though.

katiefraay

I don't think you can accurately guage body fat online.

That stinks, I was really excited about the body fat I had lost

MermaidFaith

at curves they use a hand held meter thing to guage your body fat each month. pretty neat

taso42_DELETED

About as accurate as an online pregnancy test

katiefraay

at curves they use a hand held meter thing to guage your body fat each month. pretty neat

Yeah they do that at my nutritionist's as well, but I was curious as to why I was gaining weight and I decided to calculate my body fat based on measurements.

katiefraay

About as accurate as an online pregnancy test

Haha oh well

dgoforth

It may not be accurate to what your exact body fat % is, but in 4 weeks, if you use the same online tool, you can see how much you've lost/gained, respectively. It's like scales, not a single one is perfectly accurate, but as long as you keep using the same scale, you can tell your loss/gain.

katiefraay

It may not be accurate to what your exact body fat % is, but in 4 weeks, if you use the same online tool, you can see how much you've lost/gained, respectively. It's like scales, not a single one is perfectly accurate, but as long as you keep using the same scale, you can tell your loss/gain.

Ok, I might just do that, and use my nutritionist's one as a real estimate, and the online as a change-over-time one.

taso42_DELETED

Just FYI, you can get a set of plastic body fat calipers for around $10 or less. They are reasonably accurate. There's still a margin of error, but it's about the best you can do at home.

katiefraay

Just FYI, you can get a set of plastic body fat calipers for around $10 or less. They are reasonably accurate. There's still a margin of error, but it's about the best you can do at home.

Where?

taso42_DELETED

Just FYI, you can get a set of plastic body fat calipers for around $10 or less. They are reasonably accurate. There's still a margin of error, but it's about the best you can do at home.

Where?

I got mine real cheap on ebay, it was like 3.99 or something. I've also seen them in a GNC or Vitamin Shoppe type of store, probably for $10 or so. The brand is called Accu-Measure.

Edit: here's a buy-it-now for $3.69
http://cgi.ebay.com/3000-Personal-Body-Fat-Caliper-Tester-Accu-Measure-/310288265861?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item483e9f3285#ht_2791wt_1117

katiefraay

Just FYI, you can get a set of plastic body fat calipers for around $10 or less. They are reasonably accurate. There's still a margin of error, but it's about the best you can do at home.

Where?

I got mine real cheap on ebay, it was like 3.99 or something. I've also seen them in a GNC or Vitamin Shoppe type of store, probably for $10 or so. The brand is called Accu-Measure.

Edit: here's a buy-it-now for $3.69
http://cgi.ebay.com/3000-Personal-Body-Fat-Caliper-Tester-Accu-Measure-/310288265861?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item483e9f3285#ht_2791wt_1117

Ok thank you so much!

chuckanderson

If you're a college student you can get Amazon Prime for free - free 2 day shipping on anything Amazon keeps in their warehouse. They have the Accu-measure calipers for 3.99.

The UPS man hates me.