What's your body fat %?

I've tried to calculate mine on several different websites, and they all give me a different number. 27%, 33%, & 41% (which can't be possible, because I'm not obese.)

Try a bodyfat analyzer...they are no bod pod but IMO they are better than the skin fold test or the web calculators.

Women should be 25% or below to be considered in normal range. Men should be 15% or below to be considered normal range. My body fat is currently 14.9% and I get it tested monthly by a trainer at my gym. Most personal trainers can measure your skin folds and calculate it for you. There are some home devices as well.

My hubby and I went to a local University and did the BodPod, lol! I was at 19.5%. I look at myself and I don't believe that but it's suppose to be pretty accurate.

23-24 % I'd like to get it somewhere in 18-20%

Its fun to do the math too.
148 lbs with 24% fat = 35.5 lbs of fat, 112.5 lean muscle/ bones and what ever. Nice to keep perspective, Granted I shouldn't aim to lose 35 pounds, gotta have fat to protect all the organs and such.

I asked one of the doctors (I work at a hospital) about this, cause at the gym the machine they have said 37%. That machine only takes into consideration, height, weight, age, and sex. The one I found on the web also asked for my waist and wrist measurements result was 29%. The doc told me that the website was definitely asking for more information and therefore a more realistic number. Plus I also recall having someone in the diabetic clinic (during a biggest loser challenge) use their machine and that also told me 29%.

According to an article from Medscape.com, the American Dietetic Association recommends that men have 15-18% body fat and women have 20-25% body fat. Healthy male athletes might be as low as 5-12% body fat, and healthy female athletes could be as low as 10-20%.

Dr. C. Everett Koop's site, ShapeUp.com, breaks down healthy body fat ranges by both gender and age. Men under 39 years of age should have 8-19% body fat, and women under 39 years of age should have 21-32%. Older men may range from 11% to 24%, and older women may range from 23% to 35%.

Health Check Systems quotes the American Council on Exercise and says men's body fat should be 6-25%, and women's should be 14-31%.

From a quick google search....

Mine is 10%

30.4 on Jan 1 and now at 27.1 - hope that trend continues

I have used three different websites.
On healthy forums I got 27%, on free dieting I got 19.7% and on scientific psychic I got 22.5%. So I am thinking I am between 20-25%

the wet foot thingee on my scale says 34.5% but it started much higher, so onward and downward right?

The results on websites tend to be inaccurate and even the skin fold test and scales aren't super accurate. The most accurate way is hydrostatic testing.

The results on websites tend to be inaccurate and even the skin fold test and scales aren't super accurate. The most accurate way is hydrostatic testing.

Totally correct. But they aren't so easy to come by. I've never used one at all. There might be one on base here. I'll have to look into it. I'd love to compare the results from the skin fold and the hydrostatic testing.

And to add a note about the websites, they usually calculate BMI which is not nearly the same thing as % body fat. My BMI is 19.5. Bodybuilders usually fall under the "overweight" category when just BMI is calculated, but they have very little body fat.

I was getting wild variations on my scales / body fat analysers - I could be 28% at 2 pm then 36% at 4 pm, and it always seemed rather high (I am 5' 4" and 112 ilbs). I then stumbled on the instruction book recently, which said your feet need to be slightly wet when you stand on the scales. Since doing that I have consistently been around 23%.

I have one of those electronic measures that you hold. On Jan. 1 i was 44.8%, Jan. 21 i was 43.8%. I will measure again at the 2 month mark, I think. Hoping to get into the 30's soon!