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10-23-2008, 05:37 PM
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Senior Member
Thread Starter
Join Date: May 2008
Location: Vacaville, CA
Posts: 1,585
S/C/G: 327/270/199
Height: 5'11
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Body Fat Percentage Calculator
Body fat percentage calculator....
How you do know what you really are?
http://www.freedieting.com/tools/bod...calculator.htm
I put my weight and my info in there and it says:
Body Fat:
26.39 %
Fat Weight:
74.4 pounds
Lean Weight:
207.6 pounds
There's no way that I'm 26.39% fat. When I psychically do it on a machine it says I'm 36%, so which one is right? I've heard that even the hand held ones are wrong. Is there a way to tell?
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10-23-2008, 05:40 PM
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...okay, so...
Join Date: Oct 2008
Posts: 271
S/C/G: 200/173/150
Height: 5'7"
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mine was:
Body Fat:
31.59 %
Fat Weight:
61 pounds
Lean Weight:
132 pounds
doesn't seem right to me at all. who knows.
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10-23-2008, 05:44 PM
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#3
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One pound at a time!
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: The Great Northwest
Posts: 728
S/C/G: 264/239/199
Height: 5'6"
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The website says this is an "estimate". It is not meant to be taken as exact.
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10-23-2008, 05:48 PM
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One step at a time!
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Chilean living in Barcelona!
Posts: 118
S/C/G: 187/ticker/120
Height: 5'7
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Before my dr gave me my "eating plan" he sent me to do a zillion examns and one was to detemrine your body composition (lean mass, fat, water, etc) but I had to do it in the hospital together with the one to determine my BMR (it was like half an hour breathing in a special machine!
I guess that was pretty accurate but you have to go to a special place to have it done!
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10-23-2008, 05:54 PM
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Senior Member
Thread Starter
Join Date: May 2008
Location: Vacaville, CA
Posts: 1,585
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Height: 5'11
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Quote:
Originally Posted by bethbeth
The website says this is an "estimate". It is not meant to be taken as exact.
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I understand that but that is big percentage to be off.
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10-23-2008, 06:03 PM
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*Courtney Rae*
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Phoenix, AZ
Posts: 766
S/C/G: 245/217/160
Height: 5'5
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Body Fat: 16.91 %
Fat Weight: 34.3 pounds
Lean Weight: 168.7 pounds
Holy that must be a real rough estimate! Good thing there is going to be body fat testing at the gym next week. I was too scared to have it done before, but now i am super curious.
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10-23-2008, 06:31 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: California
Posts: 7,097
S/C/G: 197/135/?
Height: 5'7"
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There are a lot of different body fat calculators online. Even skin calipers aren't always accurate, and these calculators based on tape measurements are much worse. However, I find it's nice to follow the trend, as long as I remember that the actual number probably isn't right. So, I tried several different ones, and picked the one in the middle, which seemed about right. The spread was pretty wide - some I knew I wasn't that high, and some I really KNEW I wasn't that low.
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10-23-2008, 06:52 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Newfoundland
Posts: 552
S/C/G: 195/161/144
Height: 5'9"
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I just did this test, and compared to my WW bodyfat % scale, it is off by a bit. My WW scale says bodyfat is 29%, fat weight is 45 lbs and lean weight is 105. This thing says my body fat % is 23%, fat is 35 lbs and lean bady weight is 115. So, for starters, I like this one better. But I know it isn't as accurate as the electrical impulse test. This one bases too much of the information on the waist measurement, and does not take into consideration distribution of the body fat. What if you had two ladies who were the same height and weight, and one carried all her weight in her abdomen, and the other carried all her weight in her hips. They could have the same body fat %, but they would measure way differently on that body fat scale.
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10-23-2008, 07:07 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: memphis
Posts: 2,163
S/C/G: 170/Ticker/124-126
Height: 5'3"
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Body Fat:
19.38 %
Fat Weight:
27.7 pounds
Lean Weight:
115.3 pounds
I really like those numbers... too bad its probably not even right lol
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10-23-2008, 09:01 PM
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#10
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Ruth
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Brisbane, Australia
Posts: 529
S/C/G: 98.0/95.5/69.0
Height: 173cm
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Body Fat:
17.26 %
Fat Weight:
34 pounds
Lean Weight:
163 pounds
17% - sweet!
Pretty sure it's totally off though, when my scales and the caliper measurement I had at the gym both put me at around 45%. That's a huge discrepancy!
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10-24-2008, 12:55 AM
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Maintaining ~6 years!
Join Date: Jul 2008
Posts: 1,306
S/C/G: 263/Maintaining/150
Height: 5'8"
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Mine was:
Body Fat:
24.41 %
Fat Weight:
51.3 pounds
Lean Weight:
158.7 pounds
Heeeey, cool! As everyone else has said, it's probably not very accurate. But it's still kind of a cool thing to look at for fun, heh. For me, I actually got more excited about seeing that 51.3 + 158.7 = my weight... Those numbers seem far too small! But if I actually were only 24% fat--how cool would that be?!
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10-24-2008, 01:13 AM
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#12
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Losing weight - Toning up
Join Date: Jun 2008
Posts: 597
S/C/G: 159/128/120
Height: 5'7"
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Body Fat:
20.8 %
Fat Weight:
26.2 pounds
Lean Weight:
99.8 pounds
i'm not sure myself... i've never had body fat % measured before so i don't know how accurate this one is...
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10-24-2008, 01:42 AM
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Ruth
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Brisbane, Australia
Posts: 529
S/C/G: 98.0/95.5/69.0
Height: 173cm
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Not very.
As an example, I'm 2cm taller than you. So we are close to the same height. You weigh 123 with a BMI of 19.1, I weigh 197 with a BMI of around 30.
The calculator says your body fat is 20.8, and mine is 17.9! I doubt it...
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10-24-2008, 03:08 AM
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#14
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Lazy runner deluxe
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Netherlands
Posts: 517
S/C/G: 168/142/142
Height: 169 cm / 5'7''
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I don't even believe those hand-held body fat meters are very accurate. A friend of mine told me he used it one week and it said 13 % body fat, and the next week 17%. He hadn't done anything special and he was quite sure he had not gained weight. I mean, how the heck could that be possible?
I apparently have 17 % body fat according to this calculator, I don't think that's very accurate.
Last edited by Elwing; 10-24-2008 at 03:41 AM.
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10-24-2008, 03:30 AM
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#15
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keep on truckin'
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: california
Posts: 536
S/C/G: 253/249/190
Height: 6'1
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I hope it's not accurate because mine was really depressing...haha
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