What’s going on with this?

sijomial · March 2020

Looks like caliper skin fold testing - can you confirm OP as people keep asking you which method is being used.

Calipers in the hands of a properly trained person can be pretty reasonable but your numbers seem to be changing far faster than is credible.

"There HAS to be weight loss with fat loss right? !" - no wrong.
Recomp has fat loss without weight loss (but your rate of change is surprising)
Water retention can also result in fat loss without weight loss.

janejellyroll · March 2020

HBMairi wrote: »

My diary is open, yes I’m logging my food and logging it properly

I just checked, your diary isn't open.

HBMairi · March 2020

Sorry, it was open to friends. It’s fully open now

anubis609 · March 2020

HBMairi wrote: »

anubis609 wrote: »

HBMairi wrote: »

scarlett_k wrote: »

You've lost 8% body fat and no weight loss?Assuming you are using the same scale each time and it is definitely functional I think your body fat is being measured incorrectly

Thanks, yes this is what I couldn't understand. There HAS to be weight loss with fat loss right?

They are not synonymous. Scale weight is mass correlating with the force of gravity, affected by many factors, whether internally or externally from the body.

Fat loss is exactly as it sounds, which may or may not affect scale weight.

In each measured row, there is 1 inconsistency in each, where the priority measurements are supra-iliac and umbilical, the 3rd measurement is different with pectorals, midaxillary, and hamstrings being measured in those weeks. So those set of muscle groups would contribute differently to calculating overall body fat percentage, assuming those are the only data used in the calculations.

The pecs, midaxillary and hamstrings have been measured each time.

Then there's an inconsistency somewhere. An 8% drop in body fat in under a month is astonishing, and without some other metric to distinguish it as a genuine loss; i.e. scale weight changes, changes in body part measurements, etc., there is an error occurring.

PAV8888 · March 2020

You have a measurement problem.

Presumably you're not getting weighed naked at the same time in the morning after using the washroom and before you've started eating and drinking for the day, right?

Is the same person taking measurements the same way every time?

You're showing a > 7% fat drop. From 25kgs of fat to 19.6kgs or 5.4kgs of a drop. In a month. 41,580 Calories.

Not only 41,580 Calories, but if some of the corresponding increase (to keep you at an even weight) was not water weight, but was actual new lean mass, the development of new lean mass would ALSO incur Calories (sources vary as to the exact amount. anywhere from 800 to 5000 Cal per lb depending on various numbers I've seen, but quite possibly Anubis has a better figure).

No matter what. You're talking more than 42,000 Calories. In 24 days.
1750 Calories of energy imbalance PER DAY.
Does this sound likely based on what you've been doing in terms of activity and eating in terms of food?

My belief, based on what you're saying, is that you're improving your body composition, have a good amount of water retention from new exercise and possibly your monthly cycle, have a weight-in problem due to when and where you measure your weight and have a skin-fold measurement problem too.

Which doesn't stop you from improving your general health!

You're slightly in the overweight range by BMI, but by the looks of it fairly athletic.

A -500 Cal deficit or even a bit less (for example -250 if you're a very accurate logger who wants to take it very slow and maximize athletic performance) will see you getting great results over time.

Measuring your weight at home under similar daily conditions and using a weight trend application of website might also be of help in monitoring your general weight level over sufficient time frames (4-6 weeks including a complete cycle)

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