Help with body fat % advice please?

SilverOnTheTree

Hi all,

Can you please help by giving me some direction?

Had some great news from the gym's today: I'm sitting at 160 pounds (73kg) and 19% body fat. But I'm confused: I'm still way over the recommended weight for my height, and I'm not especially well-muscled (I ride a bike and occasionally run or do an aerobics class, but don't do strong lifting or anything). Could there have been a mistake? Is my weight-loss plan suddenly finished 4 months early?

The gym trainer used calipers & seemed to measure all the same places as usual. Although the torso & calf measurements were all in the 15 - 20% range, my thighs still check out at 24% and I guess that's where the majority of my 'extra' weight resides.

I assure you, visually my body is far from being skin-and-bone. I still wear plus-size stockings and can't fit regular knee-high boots (too small around the calf). Since the online calculators no longer work (by weight they tell me to LOSE WEIGHT; by bf% they tell me to STOP LOSING WEIGHT), what do I do now?

llkilgore

I think I'd ask for a second opinion. Has this trainer calculated your body fat before?

mfpcopine

Follow the weight guidelines and bring your weight down, while maintaining a healthy body fat percentage. But the trainer could have made a mistake.

astrampe

How tall are you? Mistakes are easy to make....I am more or less the same weight as in my profile pic - and am at 25%

SilverOnTheTree

Thanks ^_^

It does seem likely that there's been a mistake somewhere. Yes, this trainer has measured me before. Over the past 10 months, the body fat measurement has steadily decreased; the last measurement was taken in November, at 26% / 78kg.

I'm only 163cm, or nearly 5'4" in height.

I suppose that unless something BAD happens, the best action is to keep doing what I've been doing successfully so far.