Body fat % scale what's yours?

Scales don't do a very good job at measuring body fat %. You're better off investing in some skin fold calipers (you can find many on Amazon) and using an online calculator to figure it out. It's still not perfect, but it's much more accurate than a scale.

Here's the one I use: http://www.linear-software.com/online.html. I don't have my own calipers but my gym trainer does and we just started monitoring my body fat % last week. I'm at 20.97% with the JP/7-point method. Remember, the more points you measure, the more accurate your results.

my scales give me a much lower bf% than the online calculator I use (http://www.fat2fitradio.com/tools/mbf/) so I stick to the calculator as I think it's much closer to my actual bf%. As long as you stick to one method though you should get an accurate measure of progress

I have found my body fat % scale pretty accurate in comparison to the skin fold calipers method. Even though some scales aren't that accurate focus on the trend of your body fat %.

Started at :
295 pounds
56% BFP
31% Hydration
24% Body Muscle
10.5% Bone.

Down 8% in BFP.

Well I agree with the other poster that the scales can be misleading but then so can the calipers. I have been seeing a personal trainer for 7 mths and we take those measurements with the calipers etc.. and for the last few months nothing much has moved on the BF% reduction maybe 1/2 %. Now we showed at I was 30.4% down from 41% so still a great showing. But I thought that we should have seen better results and so I went yesterday for an iDexa scan at the University of Texas Fitness Institute and was shocked by the results.

I have lost 107 lbs in the last 17 mths / 75 wks. And I have a bit of loosey goosey skin, so I wondered how those calipers could gage things when the same flap of loose skin is used. I am 22.8 % BF !! So quite a difference to 30.4%. My lean body mass is high for a woman at 130.6 lbs, and my skeleton is heavier than the average woman as well and thus BMI charts cannot apply to me. I am 69.3 inches and 173 lbs in my underwear 1st thing in the morning, and the BMI charts say I should not be over 169lbs. So in theory they say around 175 is optimum for me.

The down side is that I also had my RMR tested and it is very low, and with my high lean mass it should have been higher. This may be the results of a 1200-1500 calories intake over these last 17 mths, so now I am going to have to begin to increase the calories to 2200 gradually with the hopes I can get my metabolism back in order.

So I guess the best thing is to take all of these commercial type scales and such, that are out on the market with a grain of salt and only as estimates.