Body Fat %
 

I have a Tanita scale. I love it as far as weight accuracy, but I doubt it's body fat percentage accuarcy. I know I have brought up this exact topic before, but it just bugs the crap out of me. I weigh several times a day, mostly because I want to get a good weight reading (which is in the morning, after a bathroom visit and before eating) AND an "accurate" body fat ready, which is said to be not within 3 hours of eating or exercising or waking, and you need to be hydrated. I just don't understand how my body fat is still so high! To me it makes no sense! I have been desperately looking for my body fat calipers from training school to check but I can't find them. I think that my scale guesses how much body fat I have depending on my weight, yes I think my scale thinks! HAHA, anyway, when I first got the scale I think I was in the 170's then, and it said 44% body fat (ug I can't imagine what it would have said when I was 190). Now it says 35%. Now I know that's a good loss number wise, but I want to be around 20% body fat and that would mean about 120 pounds and I don't plan on going that low, I just can't imagine that I need to lose another almost 30 pounds.

It's just frustrating to me to be at a "normal" weight but still be considered overweight because of my body fat!!!

Does anyone else have a scale with body fat? If so do you think it's accurate? And if you do, do you think my scale is just broken and mean? ;)

I have the "Thinner" scale that shows my body fat percentage.

Does your scale have the option of placing down if you are a male or female and how tall you are before stepping on the scale? I think that would make it more accurate.

Last time i checked mine said 17.6%.
Mine says I'm below, so I don't know how accurate these things are.

I have a tanita as well and it says my body fat is 43%.No matter what i weigh.I had it checked at my gym and I am 25%.I don't consider my scale reliable.I wish it was after all that was why i chose it:(

I havent ever used a scale that shows body fat percentage...the few times I have looked it up I have used measurements vs weight.

However I don't know how accurate that is either because when I did it this morning using a calculator from www.getfit.com.au it said my body fat percentage was 12% which is very low...

*shrugs* I'd like to have it done correctly one day...would be interesting I think.

Maja - Yes I have my gender and height in there and everything.

Thanks for the feedback!

This is totally embarassing but I have a WW scale and it tells me so much I don't even know what the heck all the readings mean! I basically just pay attention to the weight.