I've had a remarkable 2013. I started the year at 203 pounds and over 30% body fat. Now, 6 weeks before the end of the year, I've settled and maintained about 155. I was using the onine bodyfat calculators over at Fat2FitRadio.com to get a good idea of my body fat and was coming up somewhere around 17%. But yesterday, I decided to get a definitive answer. I drove a couple of hours to DC and went into the Bod Pod. I wasn't expecting the results. I wasn't at 17%. I was at 11.8%. At first the number was thrilling. And it is great news. And shows the work I've put in this year.

But I was thinking later that one dream I'd always had was actually having a 6 pack. When I thought I was at 17% bf, I guessed I had room to drop another 5-6 percent of bf and maybe the abs that I can actually feel might start being visible. But now that I know it's at 11.8%, that seems like a pipe dream.

I had gone into maintenance mode at my current weight because I was starting to look "scrawny". If I had to drop another 10 or so pounds to get the body fat down so the abs would show, I'd look positively ghostly.

So should I just cross that item off of my bucket list as completely unattainable? Does anyone have any other suggestions?

One thing the test did do: showed the BMI doesn't work with me. My BMI at 11.8% bodyfat was a 25.0. I'm overweight.

Thanks for any input.