how is this possible??

larsensue

I am 42 yrs old, 5'4" and 141.3lbs in a size 28 pant (Canadian) (trying to get back to 120lbs but keep losing and gaining the same 4 lbs since January) I am extremely frustrated!!! I just bought a new scale that measures BF% so I could track it at home rather than paying to get an analysis every 3 months. I had my BF% analyzed in January and the print out I got said it was at 18.8%. today my scale said 27.6%. How can I go from 18.8% to 27.6% in less than 3 months and be doing MORE exercise? HELP!!

Mokey41

Scales are wildly inaccurate for measuring BF%.

phjorg

scales are very innaccurate. like VERY innaccurate. don't trust them. they are a tool for tracking progress at best, but comparing one to another is just comparing 2 random numbers.

as for what the problem is, what is your calories per day, your macro breakdown. and how has your cardio and resistance training numbers improved over the past 4 months? you are seeing steady performance increases right?

briggsy13

Scales are wildly inaccurate for measuring BF%.

This! I would only ever use that as a way to track it if you measured your BF on it the first time then you could compare to that #.

JenniCali1000

I had a BF scale and it fluctuated sooo much. It would give me a very different reading each time, so I stopped using it. At my gym I went to at the time, they measured BF using the handheld type of thing. I just had them measure me every couple months. It was pretty accurate.

KenosFeoh

My scales say 41% but my measurements at fat2fit.com give 34%. Either way - bad.

Mouse_Potato

I'm going to go against the flow and say the first BF analysis was incorrect. I am 5'4" and 135 pounds and my scale says I'm about 27.5% BF. From the pictures I've seen online this seems accurate to me.

larsensue

Thanks all for the opinions! I guess I will just have to have it retested again and ignore the scale... I feel much better now.