Puffy
I’ve been feeling even more puffy, and via a post on the Forums, I found a body fat calculator that uses measurements (hips, calf, thigh, wrist) to determine your body fat percentage. My question on it is how would this work for someone who carries their weight in their abdomen rather than in their hips/thighs as I do?
Guess that doesn’t really matter since I’m going to be looking at progress, not my body compared to someone else’s.
My measurements:
- Age: 35
- Weight: 152
- Hips: 44 inches (!!! actual was 44.25, OMG)
- Calf: 13.75 inches
- Upper Thigh: 25 inches
I find it interesting (and somewhat puzzling) that they don’t ask your height. Anyway, here’s what it said:
Your Results
You have 35.5% body fat.
You have 54 Pounds of fat and 98 Pounds of lean (muscle, bone, body water).
I’ll add this into my weekly measures during the 60-day challenge. I cannot *believe* how much I’m still puffing up…this feels almost out of control to a point where it’s frightening. Let’s just say that my brand new size 14 jeans seem tight to me. SIGH.
The test site suggests that a healthy percentage for a caucasian woman is 22%. If I keep my same lean muscle weight, that would give me a target weight of 98/.78 = 125.6. I could certainly live with that. At this point, I’d be happy to just enter the 130s again.
I find it very odd that they don’t ask for waist too! This doesn’t seem very accurate to me.