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Hoping someone can chime in here. What's best to measure fat loss other than stepping on a scale? For my body type, weight is not as representative as the fat I do carry is relatively minimal and focused around the mid section, mostly. I may actually gain weight because I'm lifting heavier weights again and focused more on protein, etc. Is measuring a waist line a better way to measure my true progress i.e. that should decrease even if my weight might stay the same or go up? What about these scales that say that can measure body fat %? Are they accurate or a waste of money?
Diet Calendar Entries for 07 August 2014:
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2891 kcal
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Fat: 135.00g | Prot: 197.50g | Carb: 226.00g.
Breakfast: The Happy Egg Company Egg (Large), earth balance Earth balance coconut spread, Oscar Mayer Butcher Thick Cut Bacon Hickory Smoked, Arnold Country Oatmeal Bread. Lunch: Hormel Natural Choice Sliced Smoked Deli Ham, Sabra Classic Hummus. Dinner: Panera Bread Chicken Caesar Sandwich on Focaccia Bread, Panera Bread Mediterranean Chicken Flatbread, Panera Bread French Baguette. Snacks/Other: Skippy Natural Super Chunk Peanut Butter, Vemma Verve Bold, Lucerne Protein Plus Reduced Fat Milk, Only Protein Only Protein, Wholly Guacamole Wholly Guacamole Minis, Daisy Cottage Cheese 2%, Blue Moose of Boulder Fire Roasted Salsa. more...
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2946 kcal
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Activities & Exercise:
Sleeping - 8 hours, Resting - 8 hours, Sitting - 8 hours. more...
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If you are looking for a number, you'd need to get tested for body fat content when you start and then at whatever interval you choose. That can get expensive. The free way is to use your clothes as a measuring tool. When your belt moves one more hole, you have lost fat.
07 Aug 14 by member: eddie1261
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to measure fat nothing beats calipers by a professional. but the scale will give you a base line that you will be able to compare from month to month. that improvement will be correct as far as your progress. as to whether or not it is as accurate as it should be......well you should only be concerned that an improvement has occurred.
waist size is a good measurement as well. don't worry you will see in the mirror the improvement...........:)
07 Aug 14 by member: Bill7777
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Calipers have no way to account for the density of your skeleton and muscles. They just squeeze your fat. The old school way was to be weighed in water where your body fat would float. The new thing is the Bod Pod that uses are compression. I have a one hour video clip about how it works but I have not watched it yet. I plan to go try it when I lose 5 more pounds. I want to be 240 when I do it.
07 Aug 14 by member: eddie1261
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I have one of these scales...it measures body fat %, bone mass, water density, weight obviously, and muscle mass...I personally love it, I use that and only that so my ups or downs are based off of those numbers to keep myself in check..so like I recorded the first time I got onto it and that's my baseline and calculate the difference from THOSE numbers...as far as accuracy, I have no idea to be honest, I've never gone to a doc and checked the difference between them, but I think if you use the same thing over and over and are consistent in using ONLY that, then your losses would be what you should be most worried about for accuracy...if you get what I mean?
07 Aug 14 by member: Socolova
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Thanks for all of the feedback. Don't need to go to great lengths here. I think I'll just stick with waist measurement and maybe try the % feature on my scale for some indicator. I think I'll end up losing some weight with the remaining fat loss even if I add some more muscle. You can probably see from my pic that I'm not trying to lose a bunch of weight...just transform the last part. If my diet composition and workout plan is set up right, and I stick to it, I'll get where I want.
08 Aug 14 by member: mtmartin71
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