The Ultimate Measurement Challenge

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  • Annie5859
    Annie5859 Posts: 280 Member
    Here are my measurements Mandie.

    Name: Annie
    Height: 5’ 9 ¾”
    Arms: L-12 R-12
    Chest: 40.5
    Waist: 42 1/4”
    Hips: 45
    Thighs: L-26 R-26 ½
    Calves: L- 15 ¾ R- 15 ¾

    Oops! I'm sorry but after I checked out my body fat count I realized that I measured my waist wrong. I should have measured about 1 inch above my belly button and I measured right around the flabby stomach part that was left after I had babies. So, my

    waist is actually: 35

    And I believe my body fat% is: 38%

    Sorry!
  • marniehodges
    marniehodges Posts: 264
    Awesome work you're doing on this Mandie! That body fat % is scary! Can you tell us what those percentages mean? Like how they break it down on what's considered healthy, normal, horrible even. Not sure I want to know :noway: , but I probably should :tongue: . Or if you can provide a link to the site you're using I can look myself if you want. Thanks "daughter" :laugh:
  • Candiceg13
    Candiceg13 Posts: 218
    Sorry its late, hopefully I can still join in! :happy:

    Name: Candice
    Height: 5'4
    Arms: R13, L13.5
    Chest: 41.5
    Waist: 34.5
    Belly: 41
    Hips: 40
    Thighs: R26, L26.5

    I have had 4 kids, the last 3 were all in 5 years and were all C-Sections.....so my belly is a lot of extra skin.... I want to at least shrink that area!!!

    Mandie, let me know if it too late......
  • Ding724
    Ding724 Posts: 791 Member
    Marnie & everyone else, here is the breakdown of what body fat % mean...

    Women
    Essential fat 12-15%
    Athletes 16-20%
    Fitness 21-24%
    Acceptable 25-31%
    Obese 32% +

    I decided i'm NOT going to keep track of everyones because it's kind of confusing & I entered some of yours wrong because I didn't have most of your neck measurements I realized. So to actually find you own percent of body fat, you can vist the site:

    http://www.calculator.net/army-body-fat-calculator.html

    ---> according to this one I'm 27%

    OR this one which is just the basic body fat %:

    http://www.calculator.net/body-fat-calculator.html

    ---> according to this one i'm 26.1% so they do differ slightly


    I WILL JUST BE KEEPING TRACK OF MEAUREMENTS & for those of you that gave me seperate for left vs right, I just took the larger of the two numbers :happy: Whew. I hope everyone has a great day!!!
  • arwamya
    arwamya Posts: 304
    How on earth is my body fat 72 % :O
  • arwamya
    arwamya Posts: 304
    I made a mistake it's 28 %. Thank God :P
  • Candiceg13
    Candiceg13 Posts: 218
    Well, apparently I am at 36.2% body fat..... :frown: oh, well, its a starting point!!!!!
  • lripson28
    lripson28 Posts: 213 Member
    I want in! But I'm not home and don't remember all my measurements, I'll just put down for now what I remember.

    Name: Laura
    Height: 5'5
    Hips: 37
    Thighs: 24
  • HeatherShrinking
    HeatherShrinking Posts: 776 Member
    I'm in

    Name Heather
    Height: 5' 6.5 "
    Arms: 15
    Chest: 47
    Waist: 42.5
    Hips: 51
    Thighs: 29.0
  • emilyrosedye
    emilyrosedye Posts: 66
    Sounds great! I've mostly been wanting to tone up and fit back into my Lee Jeans that I havent been able to squeeze in to in well over a year!

    I'm In! I'll pop back this evenin with my measurements :)
  • marniehodges
    marniehodges Posts: 264
    I'm not super stoked about my body fat%...30.3% according to the basic one or 31% according to the Army one. Barely acceptable but at least the Army would take me :tongue:
  • hippiechel
    hippiechel Posts: 170 Member
    hello everyone, i would love to join in on this! i'm adding extra measurements as well.

    Name: rachel/chel
    Height: 5'5.5"
    Neck: 14.0
    Arms (Upper): 12.0
    Arms (Lower): 9.5
    Chest: 37.0
    Ribs (Under boobs): 32.0
    Waist: 31.0
    Hips (Butt): 39.0
    Hips (Hipbones): 37.5
    Thighs (Upper): 23.0
    Thighs (Lower): 16.0
    Calves: 14.0

    body fat calculated is 29.5%.
  • MissingMinnesota
    MissingMinnesota Posts: 7,486 Member
    my trainer takes my body fat % and its actually 24.5 - or it was 4 weeks ago and my measurements haven't changed much.
  • sneakers71
    sneakers71 Posts: 106
    I'm totally in for this!
    I have given up the scale for lent and am on my 24th day of the shred - I've got to measure something!!

    Name: Holly
    Height: 5'5
    Arms:
    Chest: 34
    Waist: 25
    Belly: 28
    Hips: 37
    thighs: 21.5

    going to check the website for body fat, I've had it done at the gym and it said 26%
  • madamelaporte
    madamelaporte Posts: 404 Member
    meeeee Im in for this :)

    Ive already lost inches (well I measure in cm lol - just feel like I see a difference quicker that way) in the past 3 weeks so I am all for keeping a check on it with support :) The only place Im not really losing is my arms but not overly bothered :)

    OK here goes

    21st feb
    Name Claire
    Height: 5'6
    Arms: 28cm (11in)
    Chest: 92.5cm (36.4 in)
    Waist: 72cm (28.3in)
    Hips: 89cm (35in)

    14th March
    Arms: 28cm (11in)
    Chest: 89cm (35 in)
    Waist: 69.5cm (27.3in)
    Hips: 88cm (34.6in)

    I also measure my around my body across my butt and measure each of my thighs :)


    Thighs
  • partcho
    partcho Posts: 225
    bump!!
  • Ding724
    Ding724 Posts: 791 Member
    Okay ladies!!!!!!
    I'm glad for the great response from everyone...I would like to NOT take anybody else into our group simply because I can't keep track of so much stuff :laugh: If you have already posted then I have your info or am just waiting for you measurments, but if you have just run across this then you can join but I will NOT be keeping track of you measurements or adding your losses to our total group loss...unless someone else wants to take over the spreadsheets for me! We have 25 ladies & I think that's a good place to cap it :flowerforyou:
  • pouringraina
    pouringraina Posts: 106 Member
    I did my Army body fat percentage and it said 42%. I'm trying my hardest to lower it!
  • madamelaporte
    madamelaporte Posts: 404 Member
    Okay ladies!!!!!!
    I'm glad for the great response from everyone...I would like to NOT take anybody else into our group simply because I can't keep track of so much stuff :laugh: If you have already posted then I have your info or am just waiting for you measurments, but if you have just run across this then you can join but I will NOT be keeping track of you measurements or adding your losses to our total group loss...unless someone else wants to take over the spreadsheets for me! We have 25 ladies & I think that's a good place to cap it :flowerforyou:

    I dont blame you thats plenty enough to keep track of. Thanks so much for doing it :)
  • RushinBruisette
    RushinBruisette Posts: 2,109 Member
    May your kilt be short enough to do a little jig, and long enough to cover your lucky charms, Happy St Patricks Day! :laugh:
  • sneakers71
    sneakers71 Posts: 106
    morning all! Happy St Paddy's Day - I have been trying to find out my body fat % but the website keeps giving me an error message of "neck must be numeric" any thoughts?
  • kintegra
    kintegra Posts: 1,026 Member
    Ok I checked my body fat thing...the one website says 41.7.

    The Army one says " body fat = NaN% You are not in compliance" = defined America doesn't want your fat butt defending our country! :laugh:

    Oh - I caved as some of you already know. I am a sinner & got on my scale this morning. I did make it 9 days, but now that I have the boost of losing 3.2 lbs in 9 days, I am determined that what I'm doing is working & I can stay off that scale till Easter! :bigsmile:
  • Starlage
    Starlage Posts: 1,709 Member
    I dont blame you for not wanting to keep track of EVERYONE but I'm IN!!! (and dont mind that you're not tracking me :o) ) It always helps me to be more accountable for my weight and measurements (like making it public and not secret) Anyways, I weighed today and had gained, don't understand why. So after first being super disappointed and frusterated I read through some other posts and decided I need to focus on inches and weigh uhm, hardly ever! I'm only going to weigh maybe once or twice a month. It'll be hard but I want to really bad! My weight has always been deceiving to the way my body looks and the way my health is. People that know me are always shocked when they find out what the acual weight is. Anyways....

    Name Starla
    Height: 5'3"
    Arms: 11"
    Chest: 40.5"
    Waist: 34.5"
    Hips: 43"
    Thighs: 25.5"
  • baisleac
    baisleac Posts: 2,019 Member
    I normally do my weigh-in/measure on Sundays, but I'll be elsewhere tomorrow morning so...

    Waist - 37.0 \/ 1"
    Hips - 40.5 \/ 1"
    Belly - 41.0 (same)
    Over bust - 41.0 \/ 1"
    Under bust - 34.0 \/ 1"
    Neck - 14.0 ^0.5" (had husband measure in the right spot, so corrected number)
    Upper Arm - 13.0 \/ 0.5"
    Thigh (R) - 25.0 (same)
    Thigh (L) - 24.5 (same)
    Calf (R) - 14.75 \/ 0.25"
    Calf (L) - 15.0 (same)
    RHR - 67 (new)
  • lripson28
    lripson28 Posts: 213 Member
    Alright so I posted a few days ago what I could remember and just was able to measure now!

    Name: Laura
    Height: 5'5
    Arms: 10
    Chest: 32
    Waist: 29
    Hips: 36 (down 1 inch since last measure!)
    Thighs: 24
  • madamelaporte
    madamelaporte Posts: 404 Member
    Name Claire
    Height: 5'6

    14th March
    Arms: 28cm (11in)
    Chest: 89cm (35 in)
    Waist: 69.5cm (27.3in)
    Hips: 88cm (34.6in

    20th March
    Arms: 28 cm (11in)
    Chest: 88.5cm (34.8in)
    Waist: 67.5cm (26.5in)
    Hips: 87.5cm (34.4in)

    LOST no weight this morning although had 2 bad days as TOM is visiting but have lost a few cm :)
  • JoEllen92
    JoEllen92 Posts: 58 Member
    Mind if I join
    here are my current measurements

    Waist-26 Inches

    Hips-33.1 Inches

    Under Bust-30.7 Inches

    Full Bust-35 Inches

    R+L Thigh-20.5 Inches

    R+L Calf-12.2 Inches

    R+L Wrist-5.9 Inches

    R+L Bicep-9.4 Inches.

    At the moment I'm almost 1/6th of the way through the 30 day shred (only 25 more to go ahh) I'm combining it with gym and cardio on the days I don't go to the gym. So hopefully aswell as some weight loss when I get on the scale in a month ,I'll see quite a bit of inch loss every week.

    I want my main measurements(full bust-waist and hips ) to be 32-24-32 so that's 2 inches off my bust,2 off my waist and 1.1 off my hips,that's my goal as of right now,even a 1 inch loss of my waist and boobs would be nice but 2 would be so much better.
  • kintegra
    kintegra Posts: 1,026 Member
    Just checked my measurements - NO CHANGE, NADA, ZILCH! Then I realized its only been a week! DUH!
  • amber_hanners
    amber_hanners Posts: 388 Member
    name: amber new measurements as of 3/21

    height: 5'7 im actually 5'6 haha sorry for error

    arms: 13

    chest: 42

    waist: 40

    hips: 44

    thigh: 23
  • Starlage
    Starlage Posts: 1,709 Member
    Hello everyone!!

    Meaxured in this morning:

    unchanged! :ohwell:

    Good that nothing went up but I'd rather it go down, even if it's only like 1/8"!!! heheh oh well...


    Chest: 40.5"
    Waist: 34.5"
    Hips: 43"
    Thighs: 25.5"
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