accurate body fat calculators

carolineire
carolineire Posts: 65 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
Hi all,

Im trying to measure my body fat, but different websites are giving me different results, with the same measurements, its seems to range from 27.71 to 36.8, which is obviously a big difference!

Any advice please?

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  • honeysprinkles
    honeysprinkles Posts: 1,757 Member
    I don't know mine, so I can't say how accurate it is but I've used this one recently http://www.fat2fitradio.com/tools/mbf/
  • psuLemon
    psuLemon Posts: 38,432 MFP Moderator
    Body fat calipers or a dexa scan. The latter being more accurate. Online calculators are not accurate.
  • carolineire
    carolineire Posts: 65 Member
    Thanks all. I may have to invest in the calliphers, as it would be useful to know.
  • leebesstoad
    leebesstoad Posts: 1,186 Member
    I have found that if you take the 3 over at Fat2FitRadio.com, do all 3, take the average of the 3, it usually comes out pretty close to the caliper readings. At least it has done so in my case. Usuallly within 1% either way.

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