Body fat percentage, puzzled...

on the monitor i have, you enter all of your data, age, weight, height.... Well are you changing your weight before you check your body fat? Espcially if you have lost that much weight, that will definitely make a difference. If the monitor thinks you are 200, but you are actually 175, then it will be measuring you all wrong! If you are already doing that then i dont really know....

I learned the hard way that just because I was working out regularly didn't mean I wasn't losing muscle. If you are not eating the correct number of calories for the type of workouts you are doing, you can still be doing that. Your post doesn't say what kind of workouts you are doing, but if you are doing just cardio, you have to take that into consideration with your calories consumption (I was under by a good 400-500 a day while my runs were buring upwards of 800 ... so I was losing muscle, not fat). If you aren't doing any strength training, that might help as well. When you do cardio, you continue to burn calories at a higher rate for a few additional hours after you are done ... but muscle burns calories more efficiently, so the more muscle you have, the more calories you are burning. You continue to burn calories from proper weight/strength training for between 8 hours and up to 2 days after ... depending on the intnesity of your workout.

I got the above info from a trainer at my gym. He's almost 59 years old and is competing in yet another body building competition tomorrow. He's been in this business for over 20 years and continually wins the body building competitions for age 50+ category ... at almost 60 years old, so I'm inclined to believe the man knows his stuff Hope maybe it helps a little ... and congrats on the 23 lbs since Feb!