Bodyfat
selina884
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Whats your current bodyfat %? Are you happy with it or do you have a goal to reach?
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Ways too high - currently around 40% , depending on how you measure it (up to 5% variation from the different measurement methods). Not happy with it at all. Trying to get it down to a healthy range with my current target at around 25%.0
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No idea - and yes I'm happy with it, whatever it is!
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I'd advise not to get hung up on body fat. The home scales we use just aren't accurate enough to bother with. Use weight to height tables, eat a varied nutritionally rich diet, keep active and let your body do the rest. (Which it will - supremely efficiently).2
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I have no clue. I am very happy with it. 3
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Yeah you folks are probably right.
I only became curious 2 days ago and it seems to have become a focus for me.0 -
don't know what it is... but i know there's a bit too much of it!1
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Pretty damn bad, but hey, I'm a work in progress. Mine is 51%.1
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WAS about 20-23%... now about 26% ish boo1
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No I am not happy with mine. 25% last time I check. I am trying to get it down to 12% and 20lbs also.1
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I'd advise you to care very much about body fat. While the home scales aren't accurate, if you use the Navy Body Fat Calculator and visual estimates with those online picture sites, you can come pretty close.
I'm currently 22% on the Navy Calculator (LOL... no) and maybe 25-26% by visual estimates.
Personally, I'd like some pesky areas to lean out a little bit more.2 -
I think I'm at about 27%, but that's a rough guess using a measuring tape and online calculator. Higher than I expected, so this has made me decide to work a little harder!1
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Around 14%. Little way to go!1
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trigden1991 wrote: »Around 14%. Little way to go!
Trig...can you tell me...if I'm at 27, and at a nice weight (121)..do I really have to lose more weight to get my bf down?1 -
GottaBurnEmAll wrote: »I'd advise you to care very much about body fat. While the home scales aren't accurate, if you use the Navy Body Fat Calculator and visual estimates with those online picture sites, you can come pretty close.
BF% is definitely one of those "want to have a ballpark" numbers.
I use the tape method too, which is quasi accurate. Sometimes doing a pic comparison can be hard due to where someone carries weight.
I figure I'm somewhere in the 17-22% range.
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JustMissTracy wrote: »trigden1991 wrote: »Around 14%. Little way to go!
Trig...can you tell me...if I'm at 27, and at a nice weight (121)..do I really have to lose more weight to get my bf down?
muscle mass helps.2 -
I have no idea. My guess would be 19-20%? I do like it though, but I'd like to be a little bigger with the same BF%2
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I have no clue myself. I have a flat tummy. That's mainly all I care for. Haha.0
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JustMissTracy wrote: »trigden1991 wrote: »Around 14%. Little way to go!
Trig...can you tell me...if I'm at 27, and at a nice weight (121)..do I really have to lose more weight to get my bf down?
muscle mass helps.
Thank you! The thought of losing more weight (lost 80 already) is not one I cherish; the loss is really starting to show in my face, so I'd rather not lose any more. I do a fair amount of body resistance workouts and cardio, and a small amount of kettlebell workouts, maybe I'll increase those and see if it helps..0 -
Also no idea
Oh I have a reading on a bio impedence scale
And I also went for a dexa scan
But still have no idea
Turns out even though I firmly believed that dexa would be accurate, that operators can calibrate it in different ways so all the charts and averages I've seen were irrelevant to my readings as the operator told me where I stood in relation to the people he'd scanned and suggested I took off 6-7% to be relevant to the Google charts and images. @tomteboda also explained how they worked to me and how inaccurate they can be
son, I was disappoint3 -
JustMissTracy wrote: »trigden1991 wrote: »Around 14%. Little way to go!
Trig...can you tell me...if I'm at 27, and at a nice weight (121)..do I really have to lose more weight to get my bf down?
No ....recomp
Protein and progressive resistance3 -
JustMissTracy wrote: »trigden1991 wrote: »Around 14%. Little way to go!
Trig...can you tell me...if I'm at 27, and at a nice weight (121)..do I really have to lose more weight to get my bf down?
No ....recomp
Protein and progressive resistance
This has been my thinking for the last few months. Except the "progressive" part, maybe I haven't been "progressive" enough!1 -
JustMissTracy wrote: »JustMissTracy wrote: »trigden1991 wrote: »Around 14%. Little way to go!
Trig...can you tell me...if I'm at 27, and at a nice weight (121)..do I really have to lose more weight to get my bf down?
muscle mass helps.
Thank you! The thought of losing more weight (lost 80 already) is not one I cherish; the loss is really starting to show in my face, so I'd rather not lose any more. I do a fair amount of body resistance workouts and cardio, and a small amount of kettlebell workouts, maybe I'll increase those and see if it helps..
the thing is though, even if you do recomp, its still losing more bodyfat, so you'll see the changes in your body, just not the scales... thats where the saying 'you can have a nice face or a nice bum' comes from....2 -
Also no idea
Oh I have a reading on a bio impedence scale
And I also went for a dexa scan
But still have no idea
Turns out even though I firmly believed that dexa would be accurate, that operators can calibrate it in different ways so all the charts and averages I've seen were irrelevant to my readings as the operator told me where I stood in relation to the people he'd scanned and suggested I took off 6-7% to be relevant to the Google charts and images. @tomteboda also explained how they worked to me and how inaccurate they can be
son, I was disappoint
Damn. Youve actually saved me alot of "thinking" and from wasting my money as I have been contemplating a dexa scan for a while. They are ridiculously expensive.
So thanks, I wont even entertain the idea anymore.0 -
TavistockToad wrote: »JustMissTracy wrote: »JustMissTracy wrote: »trigden1991 wrote: »Around 14%. Little way to go!
Trig...can you tell me...if I'm at 27, and at a nice weight (121)..do I really have to lose more weight to get my bf down?
muscle mass helps.
Thank you! The thought of losing more weight (lost 80 already) is not one I cherish; the loss is really starting to show in my face, so I'd rather not lose any more. I do a fair amount of body resistance workouts and cardio, and a small amount of kettlebell workouts, maybe I'll increase those and see if it helps..
the thing is though, even if you do recomp, its still losing more bodyfat, so you'll see the changes in your body, just not the scales... thats where the saying 'you can have a nice face or a nice bum' comes from....
That's ok, I don't want the scale to change any further...and I want a nice face AND bum! (And belly too!)0 -
JustMissTracy wrote: »TavistockToad wrote: »JustMissTracy wrote: »JustMissTracy wrote: »trigden1991 wrote: »Around 14%. Little way to go!
Trig...can you tell me...if I'm at 27, and at a nice weight (121)..do I really have to lose more weight to get my bf down?
muscle mass helps.
Thank you! The thought of losing more weight (lost 80 already) is not one I cherish; the loss is really starting to show in my face, so I'd rather not lose any more. I do a fair amount of body resistance workouts and cardio, and a small amount of kettlebell workouts, maybe I'll increase those and see if it helps..
the thing is though, even if you do recomp, its still losing more bodyfat, so you'll see the changes in your body, just not the scales... thats where the saying 'you can have a nice face or a nice bum' comes from....
That's ok, I don't want the scale to change any further...and I want a nice face AND bum! (And belly too!)
you said you're already seeing the loss in your face, so you don't want to lose any more weight? you will still lose from your face.0 -
TavistockToad wrote: »JustMissTracy wrote: »TavistockToad wrote: »JustMissTracy wrote: »JustMissTracy wrote: »trigden1991 wrote: »Around 14%. Little way to go!
Trig...can you tell me...if I'm at 27, and at a nice weight (121)..do I really have to lose more weight to get my bf down?
muscle mass helps.
Thank you! The thought of losing more weight (lost 80 already) is not one I cherish; the loss is really starting to show in my face, so I'd rather not lose any more. I do a fair amount of body resistance workouts and cardio, and a small amount of kettlebell workouts, maybe I'll increase those and see if it helps..
the thing is though, even if you do recomp, its still losing more bodyfat, so you'll see the changes in your body, just not the scales... thats where the saying 'you can have a nice face or a nice bum' comes from....
That's ok, I don't want the scale to change any further...and I want a nice face AND bum! (And belly too!)
you said you're already seeing the loss in your face, so you don't want to lose any more weight? you will still lose from your face.
Well yes, but i'm also 47....there's a chance some of these wrinkles are normal and not from weight loss, but I suspect a fair amount of them ARE from losing too much (Or was it all the scrunching up while working out and running, maybe?) I'm not too concerned, and am actually really pleased with my success so far, but I was shocked by the bf number I saw, and don't want to lose more weight. If I get more wrinkles still, so be it..
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I had a DEXA scan in August and came in at 36%. That was disconcerting, especially after all other estimates (calculators, reliable people eyeballing me, etc.) had me around 26%. I figured the DEXA would be high 20s, but not mid-30s, putting me in obese range. After talking to the tech and reading a bit more about them, I don't believe that my results were accurate.
I think that knowing your bf can be interesting but I will caution you that if you struggle with your appearance or hint toward BDD, getting disappointing results can be very difficult.1 -
Also no idea
Oh I have a reading on a bio impedence scale
And I also went for a dexa scan
But still have no idea
Turns out even though I firmly believed that dexa would be accurate, that operators can calibrate it in different ways so all the charts and averages I've seen were irrelevant to my readings as the operator told me where I stood in relation to the people he'd scanned and suggested I took off 6-7% to be relevant to the Google charts and images. @tomteboda also explained how they worked to me and how inaccurate they can be
son, I was disappoint
Damn. Youve actually saved me alot of "thinking" and from wasting my money as I have been contemplating a dexa scan for a while. They are ridiculously expensive.
So thanks, I wont even entertain the idea anymore.
FYI - I went down the BodPod scan route every six months as cheaper than DEXA in the UK - wasn't impressed.
Had a roughly believable progression although the number seemed to clash with visual estimates but had one scan that was clearly a false reading (bigger arms/legs, smaller waist and better muscle definition but BF% apparently went up - hmmm).
Gave up trying to measure at that point.1 -
JustMissTracy wrote: »trigden1991 wrote: »Around 14%. Little way to go!
Trig...can you tell me...if I'm at 27, and at a nice weight (121)..do I really have to lose more weight to get my bf down?
To decrease your bodyfat percentage you have 2 options;
1) Increase your muscle mass
2) Decrease your fat mass
As a woman it is significantly easier to lose fat than it is build muscle. I personally would keep dieting until you're a bit leaner and then increase calories to maintenance/slight surplus to build some muscle.1
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