Body Fat Analysis? - ThinnerTimes

MBatten · 10-09-2007, 06:00 PM

Hi folks,

I'm new to posting, but have been lurking since before my surgery back in January.

Anyway, I've lost 101lbs., and been working out solidly for the past 8 months. I'm at the point now, though, that I want a truly accurate body fat analysis done. I have a lot of excess skin, so that impacts the calipers test.

Does any know if the hydrostatic testing is accurate even with all the loose skin? I would think it would be, but don't want to do it unless it will be truly accurate.

Thanks!

porshh951 · 10-09-2007, 07:54 PM

Yes hydrostatic is the only way to fly. Your skin should count as LBM aleast thats what I always counted mine as. Whatever my LBM was I just subtacted what I thought I had in skin to get a real close idea.

Regardless the muscle/water/and fat will all be accurate. The printouts are a real help with even giving you additional information like BMR and others. Just know that as you loose weight your LBM will change and so will your target weight.

You dont just loose fat by itself. You loose water weight and some muscle too most times. For instance my first printout stated a 10%BF goal weight needed of 224lbs. Yet it actually took me more like 203-204lbs to reach. Its because that machine can't tell you the whole story and let you know exactly just how much water weight with fat you will be loosing as you drop the lbs.

Just some food for thought.

waterbottle · 10-09-2007, 11:26 PM

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Originally Posted by porshh951

Yes hydrostatic is the only way to fly. Your skin should count as LBM aleast thats what I always counted mine as. Whatever my LBM was I just subtacted what I thought I had in skin to get a real close idea.

Regardless the muscle/water/and fat will all be accurate. The printouts are a real help with even giving you additional information like BMR and others. Just know that as you loose weight your LBM will change and so will your target weight.

You dont just loose fat by itself. You loose water weight and some muscle too most times. For instance my first printout stated a 10%BF goal weight needed of 224lbs. Yet it actually took me more like 203-204lbs to reach. Its because that machine can't tell you the whole story and let you know exactly just how much water weight with fat you will be loosing as you drop the lbs.

Just some food for thought.

I have to ask you this please? I have recently had my band fitted 6 weeks now,and last week went for my review and she told me I had lost a full 14lbs of pure fat (how can she tell me that from the scales)

I am pleased with my 30lbs weight loss in 5 weeks but I wanted more informarion which she wouldnt share with me?

can you tell me more please as you seem to understand this

porshh951 · 10-09-2007, 11:55 PM

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Originally Posted by waterbottle

I have to ask you this please? I have recently had my band fitted 6 weeks now,and last week went for my review and she told me I had lost a full 14lbs of pure fat (how can she tell me that from the scales)

I am pleased with my 30lbs weight loss in 5 weeks but I wanted more informarion which she wouldnt share with me?

can you tell me more please as you seem to understand this

hmm. What kind of scale is she using. There are plenty of scales out there that send pulses through your body(electric current runs faster the more dense it gets...hence it traveling better through water than fat and yet again through muscle tissue thats how it reads).

But, these scales are very very inaccurate since most times they just flow through your lower section of body. Not only that the are easily fooled if you have drunk or not drank a vast amount of fluid recently or worked out.

She is prolly just reading from the scale. Or maybe she is just guesing using one of the common formulas that have been created after given certain parameters like age/sex/weight/height/activity level/ect.

Regardless I wouldn't concern yourself with her numbers that much. You can however take a loss there like any loss. Even if the scale reads 5 lbs off coming back to the same scale and seeing a loss is still a loss. Meaning if you loose a lb on there then its still a lb, even if they number itself is off some. My advice would look up through google or the yellow pages where you can get hydrostatic testing done(usually around 80 bucks) and go have that done once every few months. It will tell you loads of info and be accurate.