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I am 5' 4.75" and 117 lbs. 1800 calories per day would definitely have me losing. My goal right now is actually a slow bulk 1825 (below maintenance) on non-lifting days and 2225 (above maintenance) on lifting days, but apparently I'm not that disciplined over the holidays. I averaged 2307 calories per day for all of…

"Normal" is subjective and changes. "What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly." That being said, the above description in the OP is perfectly "normal" for me.

I had to translate the percentages in this article to something that makes sense for females, but this is a good article that bases cycling off of body fat percentage: https://thinkeatlift.com/guide-bulking/

@mom23mangos , yep, that's my graph. Here's the updated one. Since deciding my Omron was "closest" I stopped doing as many data points for the other methods, and just basically use the Omron most mornings and average it for the month. It's cool the last little cut cycle I did (from Aug through the end of Oct) shows up on…

@sezcystef, see above. I already corrected it. Of course hydration would affect the soft tissue part of the report, but it doesn't make much sense for it to change the reading of bone mineral content.

Never mind. I see where you got it. It's like the first thing that pops up when you google it. I think it's a difference in convention of what the dexa report was including in "bone", and what the other articles were including in "bone". The dexa report splits total body weight out into "fat tissue," "lean tissue," and…

Out of curiosity, do you have a source for the 15% body weight for bones? That seems really high to me. My dexa scan put my bone weight as less than 5% of my body weight, and that was with above average bone density and low normal bmi.

My experimentally determined TDEE is 1949. MFP said 1970. That's pretty close, really.

And my T-score was 1.2 I think with the T-score, you're considered fine as long as it's greater than -1. This was a helpful link I found on bone density scores and how they figure them: https://courses.washington.edu/bonephys/opbmdtz.html

I was quite happy with them and the report. I was concerned about bone density after nursing for 3+ years, literally have the calcium sucked out of me. However, the lifting and the calcium/D tablets must have helped, I was actually quite above average, Z-score was 1.7

I could see that. I'm a little taller, 5'4.75", and have been lifting weights consistently for 5 years (only break longer than a week was a pregnancy). I can deadlift twice my total body weight, but my lean mass is only 90 lbs (from a dexa scan this past june). 90 including bone mass, that is. 84.8 lbs without the bone…

And although it wasn't covered by insurance, that is something that you can use an HSA for, if you have one.

I'll actually argue that point, but from the other end of the curve. Healthy BMI is 18.5-24.9. Before I started weightlifting, my small frame put me at about an 18 BMI, but I don't think anyone (certainly not my doctor) would have considered me unhealthy. My cholesterol numbers were normal, my cycles were normal, and I ate…

I got a referral for the bone density test in town, but ended up cancelling that appointment when I realized it wouldn't tell me what I wanted to know for body fat. Then I made an appointment with DexaFit, the closest one being about a 3 hr drive from me. The scan was $90 (after a coupon), and gave comprehensive data on…

A dexa scan for bone density and a dexa scan for body fat are different, not in technology, but in purpose. If the purpose of the test is just to get a reading on your bone density, it may well be just spine and thigh. It's not the same as what you would get from a fitness place looking at body composition, if that makes…

waist 24.75" hips 34.25" bust 33" 5' 4.75" and 116 lbs S or XS in dresses or shirts, pants 0 to 3 depending on brand/desired tightness

I've actually had a weird thing going on this week; today for the 4th day in a row the scale said 116.4 lbs exactly. I don't think that's ever happened in 6 years of weighing (mostly) every day, to have the same weight come up on the scale that many days in a row.

I think it's normal. We've both got about a 6 lb window it looks like (178-172 and 120-114). Here is my chart showing the same time frame as your graph above: And here is the really long term:

A little shorter here, just under 5'5". I'm maintaining at about 116 lb with about a 5 lb window around that 116. Body fat is about 24%. I lift twice a week (OHP and deadlifts on Tuedays, bench and squat on Thursdays) and some Strong Curves as accessories. I average 14644 steps per day. My experimentally determined TDEE is…

Another "naturally thin" person who "eats all the time" chiming in here. I've never been overweight in my life. I had a BMI of 24.9 right before I delivered my daughter. More normally, it's less than 20. My whole life I'd had nosy people tell me, "You can't eat that way forever," and "your metabolism is going to slow down…

Squats stretch the glutes which doesn't make them fire as hard as an exercise that squeezes them (like hip thrusts). Strong Curves gets into how to activate your glutes more efficiently to make sure you're using them more when squatting and deadlifting instead of compensating with your back or legs.

Oh, and also from from this article, http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/oby.20961/pdf, n = 324, average visceral fat in lbs for 324 women was 1.32 lbs with a standard deviation of the same so the range (figuring 1 standard deviation) would be 0 - 2.64 lbs.

After lots of looking I kind of found an answer to my original question. I thought I'd post what I found just in case anyone else was curious. Bodyscan did a composite of their data, updated last about a year ago: http://www.bodyscanuk.com/bodyscan-data.html So while I can't be sure of their n, the red line is "average"…

mmapags, glad you figured that out. That's kinda what I thought it was, but then I was just inferring from your description.

Ok, thanks for your reply. Let me know what they say tomorrow.

Mmapags, I think that's the unitless scale that bioelectrical scales give, not a percentage, at least if that number came off of a scale. On my Omron, I'm a 3, and I think you're good below 10. But that doesn't correlate to actual numbers. The dexa scan put me at 0.21 lbs of visceral fat, which is something like 0.2% of my…

I loved my baby carriers, but part of that is because I hated strollers. We used either a moby wrap or our Infantino everywhere. Her first hike: Fishing: A campout: At a music festival (in the background): Checking sap lines at the sugar maple farm: And of course daily walks with our dogs, or at the grocery store.

Okay, so the disclaimer I didn't put up was that I wasn't really trying to lose weight. I was just logging what I was eating. I added calories to the "calories out" side for the breastfeeding during her first year, cutting down the amount for the calories out for breastfeeding each month until she turned 1, at which point…

My Omron (HBF-510W) also has 4 hand and 4 feet sensors. I have measured with various tape and caliper measurements over the years and did a dexa scan in June to see which was closest to the "true" value. The Omron pegged me at 24.3% bodyfat the morning of the scan, and the dexa put me at 24.4%. Also, again, just my…

I guess I wasn't very clear. I'm not worried specifically about my visceral fat; it's low. Most tests come with a "reference range" of what is considered normal. That doesn't seem to be the case for visceral fat despite the fact that it has been studied extensively, apparently no reference range has been established,…