BODY FAT/BMI CALCULATORS

cindyp2
cindyp2 Posts: 8 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
What do you all use that's free and doesn't require sign in?. and that takes over 80?.
the one i used in june isn't in the search anymore. the ones i tried today were going to make me sign in or require 80 or less. yes i know i could do 80 today but what about months down the road.
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  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 34,234 Member
    It looks like this one will produce an estimate given an age over 80, if that's what you're talking about:

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

    Whether it's remotely accurate is another question. As I'm sure you know, any kind of statistical estimate (like this) tends to be more accurate for people who are close to average in various ways, including age. These estimates are pretty much never assured to be accurate, of course; but the further from average a person is, the more reason to be skeptical/cautious.

    This is not to diss you based on age: At 68, I'm not that much younger. I'm just encouraging you to take any "calculator" result with a pretty big hunk of solid salt crystal. ;)
  • tomcustombuilder
    tomcustombuilder Posts: 2,229 Member
    None of those are gonna be remotely accurate plus body fat percentage is really a useless number when it comes down to it. Everybody carries fat differently so what would be say 15% for one person would look completely different at 15% on another person. The best thing to do is look in the mirror if you need to lose fat, then loose fat if you need that muscle, then add muscle pick one and focus on that.

    In terms of fat loss progress just keep tabs on your waist measurement at the naval if that measurement is going down, you were losing fat if that measurement is not going down, you are not losing fat.
  • Corina1143
    Corina1143 Posts: 3,633 Member
    tomcustombuilder wrote: »

    In terms of fat loss progress just keep tabs on your waist measurement at the naval if that measurement is going down, you were losing fat if that measurement is not going down, you are not losing fat.

    With exceptions.
    Retaining water. Ascites. Hormone fluctuations.
    I gained about 8 inches in my waist while losing 50 pounds after hysterectomy.
  • tomcustombuilder
    tomcustombuilder Posts: 2,229 Member

    Corina1143 wrote: »
    tomcustombuilder wrote: »

    In terms of fat loss progress just keep tabs on your waist measurement at the naval if that measurement is going down, you were losing fat if that measurement is not going down, you are not losing fat.

    With exceptions.
    Retaining water. Ascites. Hormone fluctuations.
    I gained about 8 inches in my waist while losing 50 pounds after hysterectomy.
    that’s quite the exception.

  • COGypsy
    COGypsy Posts: 1,353 Member
    tomcustombuilder wrote: »
    Corina1143 wrote: »
    tomcustombuilder wrote: »

    In terms of fat loss progress just keep tabs on your waist measurement at the naval if that measurement is going down, you were losing fat if that measurement is not going down, you are not losing fat.

    With exceptions.
    Retaining water. Ascites. Hormone fluctuations.
    I gained about 8 inches in my waist while losing 50 pounds after hysterectomy.
    that’s quite the exception.

    I wouldn’t call those circumstances an exception for most women, at least at some point in their lives. I’m nearly a month post-hysterectomy and had to buy leggings two sizes larger and probably should have gone up another size but my vanity couldn’t take it, lol. I haven’t done measurements, but I know for sure that my clothes that fasten don't right now.

    Even without big things like surgery, I know quite a few women that have wardrobes in two different sizes to wear depending on the time of the month. I’d say that an absolutely consistent waist size from day to day is more of a male privilege.
  • tomcustombuilder
    tomcustombuilder Posts: 2,229 Member
    COGypsy wrote: »
    tomcustombuilder wrote: »
    Corina1143 wrote: »
    tomcustombuilder wrote: »

    In terms of fat loss progress just keep tabs on your waist measurement at the naval if that measurement is going down, you were losing fat if that measurement is not going down, you are not losing fat.

    With exceptions.
    Retaining water. Ascites. Hormone fluctuations.
    I gained about 8 inches in my waist while losing 50 pounds after hysterectomy.
    that’s quite the exception.

    I wouldn’t call those circumstances an exception for most women, at least at some point in their lives. I’m nearly a month post-hysterectomy and had to buy leggings two sizes larger and probably should have gone up another size but my vanity couldn’t take it, lol. I haven’t done measurements, but I know for sure that my clothes that fasten don't right now.

    Even without big things like surgery, I know quite a few women that have wardrobes in two different sizes to wear depending on the time of the month. I’d say that an absolutely consistent waist size from day to day is more of a male privilege.
    Then in those cases there is most likely no method that will be remotely accurate with gauging body fat.
  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,420 Member
    edited October 4
    tomcustombuilder wrote: »
    COGypsy wrote: »
    tomcustombuilder wrote: »
    Corina1143 wrote: »
    tomcustombuilder wrote: »

    In terms of fat loss progress just keep tabs on your waist measurement at the naval if that measurement is going down, you were losing fat if that measurement is not going down, you are not losing fat.

    With exceptions.
    Retaining water. Ascites. Hormone fluctuations.
    I gained about 8 inches in my waist while losing 50 pounds after hysterectomy.
    that’s quite the exception.

    I wouldn’t call those circumstances an exception for most women, at least at some point in their lives. I’m nearly a month post-hysterectomy and had to buy leggings two sizes larger and probably should have gone up another size but my vanity couldn’t take it, lol. I haven’t done measurements, but I know for sure that my clothes that fasten don't right now.

    Even without big things like surgery, I know quite a few women that have wardrobes in two different sizes to wear depending on the time of the month. I’d say that an absolutely consistent waist size from day to day is more of a male privilege.
    Then in those cases there is most likely no method that will be remotely accurate with gauging body fat.

    There really isn't a reliable way to measure body fat at home. Not sure why that's a point of contention...

    cindyp2, why do you need a body fat measurement? The only sort-of-accurate way to calculate would be in a lab setting, not an online tool.

    Just weigh yourself. Put your stats into myfitnesspal's GOALS area. Choose a goal (lose weight, maintain, etc.) and go forward from there.

    Here's a BMI calculator, they're pretty standard: https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/educational/lose_wt/BMI/bmicalc.htm

  • I2k4
    I2k4 Posts: 188 Member
    edited October 8
    As a natural "mesomorph" with good muscle mass, BMI based on scale weight has always ridiculously shown borderline "obese". Just came across this relatively new and researched "Body Roundness Indicator" or BRI that seems much more sensible. The write up here is helpful, more so the downloadable PDF study (that shows how individuals with the same 37 BMI can range from quite healthy to badly obese) and the link to a simple BRI calculator needing only scale weight and a measuring tape. (The same calculator outputs body fat and visceral fat percentage estimates and BMI for comparison.) My personal results are much more reasonable than an unfounded health panic induced by BMI.
  • PAV8888
    PAV8888 Posts: 14,254 Member
    edited October 11
    There is BMI for health and BMI for personal esthetics.

    Personal esthetics are a function of our environment and society and do charge over the years and centuries and may be based on our cultural environment.

    Not every person who smokes dies from lung cancer. But, it is I think at this point fairly settled, that both first and second hand exposure to smoking will increase your health risks.

    Not every obese person is affected by their increased health risks at any particular point of time. But being obese does increase our health risks based both on what I've read and what I've personally experienced.

    As an individual you're always free to believe otherwise. But, for my loved ones, I would consider bmis over the 27 range (yes, inside of the overweight but outside of either the normal or the obese range) to be at the limit of the low to no increased health risks because of the extra weight range.

    For myself, it is now obvious (10 years later) that my own health effect limit is very coincidental to the top of normal bmi, i.e. 25 not 27

    YMMV.

    PS: BMI, AFAIK, does not consider age in the calculation. Smartbmi, an offshoot, does take age into consideration.

    However, I would caution people who use smartbmi to assess their risks at an older age to also consider that the BMI formula is very dependent on height.

    And older people sometimes input height measurements based on older information that may not be reflective of their actual height today.

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