Can someone explain what's going on?

The calculators are not terribly reliable. You said you lost weight on a certain number of calories, why not stick to that? Or go lower if you stalled? Also I dunno how you calculate your bf but the chances are it's inaccurate and it's almost entirely irrelevant.

Its being calculated with body fat calipers. Highly accurate. If you use the calculator option where you input your bf%, its supposed to be one of the most accurate. But when I do that, the calories are going up and I don't know why. Can anyone explain whats going on?

Bodyfat calipers are only as accurate as the person wielding them and they typically are only accurate at low percent bodyfat. At higher percent bodyfat they aren't very accurate at all.

I was wondering how tall you are because if you are like 7' tall' then maybe but 255 pounds and 25% bodyfat would mean that your lean mass was like 200 pounds which is HUGE.

Arnold Schwarzenegger when he was competing was 6'2'' and 250 pounds.

Its being calculated with body fat calipers. Highly accurate. If you use the calculator option where you input your bf%, its supposed to be one of the most accurate. But when I do that, the calories are going up and I don't know why. Can anyone explain whats going on?

Bodyfat calipers are only as accurate as the person wielding them and they typically are only accurate at low percent bodyfat. At higher percent bodyfat they aren't very accurate at all.

I was wondering how tall you are because if you are like 7' tall' then maybe but 255 pounds and 25% bodyfat would mean that your lean mass was like 200 pounds which is HUGE.

Arnold Schwarzenegger when he was competing was 6'2'' and 250 pounds.

My apologies, I never said my height. I'm 6'2. There is no way you were 188lbs at 6 foot 27%bf. I have a thick frame but by no means musclular.

Yeah, I was 27% bodyfat at 188 pounds. That picture of me in my profile. That is me at 154 pounds and about 15% bodyfat. I am 6' tall and have muscle but not a lot. I am small framed.

I just doubt 25% bodyfat at 255 pounds man, I think your %bodyfat was likely a lot higher than that. 25% bodyfat doesn't look very fat by the way. Not sure what you looked like back then but take a look at these.



When I was 188 and 27% bodyfat I have a picture under my profile of my stomach during that. I'd say right now I'm probably at 1 or 22%.

If, for example, you had a bit of man-boobage at 255 pounds then you were definitely way above 25% bodyfat.

You are saying that right now you are at 21% bodyfat. Just for visual comparison this is me at about 22% bodyfat:



As you can see I do look like I am between the example pics of 20% and 25%.

At 21% you should be looking fairly lean, no longer overweight. Not athletic yet but no big stomach bulge.

I guess I'm distracting from your actual question.

Sounds like you lost 7 pounds in 7 weeks which isn't bad at all. Honestly the true indicator of what you should eat is how much you lose when you eat a certain amount. If you lose 1 pound a week eating 2300 calories then I'd stick to 2300 calories or even drop it a little more to 2100. I agree with you it doesn't really make sense to eat more if you aren't satisfied with your current weight loss rate.

I'm guessing you have more fat to lose than you were originally estimating so I think its probably safe for you to be aiming to lose 1.5 pounds a week.

MInd if I send you a pm with a pic of before I started and where I am now? You can give me an opinion of bf%

Go ahead, though I don't claim to be any sort of expert on that at all. My estimate might be way off, I don't mean to give the impression that I am somehow the fat-whisperer.