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ANGELBRAND

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ANGELBRAND Junior member

ANGELBRAND

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Stats:

19yrs

78.8kg

176cm

Bodyfat %18

Muscle 66kg

I dont feel in shape and my core isnt there and i need to do cardio but in 5 weeks my body fat dropped from 33.2% to 18% and im not sure how... I have been eating constantly which didnt help and i tried eating lots of fast food but that has done nothing i want my bodyfat to increase over 20! I dont want to risk it dropping to low.

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nate225 Veteran member

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Umm if you have dropped that much bodyfat in such a short time and have no idea why you really need to see your doctor...

Million dollar question is how were the two % calculated and by whom..... one on tanita's and one by calipers maybe.... :pfft: :grin:

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Flex Senior member

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19yrs

78.8kg

176cm

Bodyfat %18

Muscle 66kg

Either your doctor needs a new calculator or you need to make up a better story. 18% bodyfat at 78.8 would be 64.6kgLBM not 66kg.

What was your bodyweight at 33% bf? If you haven't been doing any cardio and lost that much bodyfat in 5 weeks you need to get off the P or start eating again.

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Total body weight: 78.8

Fat %: 18.3

%water: 57.1

Weightof bone: 3.2

Muscle: 66.9

metabolic age: 22

Rec Cal: 1925

Rec KJ: 8055

i walk quite a bit and i owrk as a cleaner. I dont regular cardio but cardio is part of my day to day life... And i have wrestling 2 times a week. Which invovles a little cardio. And whats dnp?

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sorry my DNP comment was me trying to be funny but ended up sounding stupid :oops:

still, it's very unrealistic to drop that amount of BF% in that short time, even when I a 12 week diet program and went crazy with eating little food and doing hardcore cardio 2-3 times a day I only managed to drop 14% (according to trainers at the gym, but then again they're pretty baised and give you BS readings that make it sound like you've made amazing progres :pfft: s )

did the person who did the first measurment do the 2nd measurement?

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Flag the scales - go and get an experienced person to do your body comps with calipers. Then give it 2 weeks and redo at the same time of day under similar conditions. If there's a drastic decrease do something about it, if not get on with it! :nod:

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Total body weight: 78.8

Fat %: 18.3

%water: 57.1

Weightof bone: 3.2

Muscle: 66.9

metabolic age: 22 (BTW this is the biggest bunch of arse ever created)

Rec Cal: 1925

Rec KJ: 8055

We checked scales twice and it gave us identical reading as above but it doesnt add up right... But that is what the scales said!

Your scales are set up wrong, what was your first weight reading at 30% bodyfat? If you were 30% bodyfat, given your current muscle mass then your bodyweight would have to have been 95kg, so you would have to have lost 17kg of bodyfat in 4 weeks.

I take it your doctor is using some sort of Tanita scales or BIA scales - no doubt your doctor has now set you on athlete or high activity mode for your 18% reading and your first reading would have been on pleb or low activity mode. Either that or your first reading of 30% was taken when you were dehydrated / had a big weekend drinking session / just finished training or was taken during your monthly menstrual cycle which fecks with the readings.

But that is what the scales said!

If your doctor is happy to go along with what the scales said without giving you an explanation then they are an idiot.

No, 1st was at my old gym, 2nd was with nutrilife people but i double checked scales myself and those figureds are what the scales said... Should i get tested the other way?
Holy *** couldn't you have said that at the start. I assumed your doctor did them when they said they didn't know what the problem was. As above the settings would have been different hence the different readings, different times of day will effect the reading, different scales will give different readings. STAY WITH ONE METHOD AND WITH THE SAME PERSON DOING THE TEST! BIA scales can be an easy and accurate way of recording BF% but only is you use the same scales under the same conditions with the same settings.

If you go and switch to a caliper test now don't freak out that you've lost or gained too much weight. If you are going to change methods then start the readings over again.

Where do i find that person? Can a dietitian do that? Im not joining a gym yet as i will have free access to one when my course starts!

Yes - join a gym. What course are you doing - please don't tell me you want to be a nutritionist or personal trainer.

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Im confused, what kind of half arsed doctor would tell you to put on fat? its not as if your ano. Personally looking at your stats, your fairly tall, your bodyfat is better than mine (and I look great), your muscle mass is excellent, get training and seek out a PT to give you a proper fat test using callipers. I don't rate those Tanita scales at all, I put them in the same category as BMI, crap.

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crazyfacials Veteran member

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your bodyfat is better than mine (and I look great).

lol so Modest Cantygirl :P (Just kidding :P)

but yeah I really don't get why people like to believe in the digital scales or BMI tests...you can have 2 people with the exact same hight, and same weight where one is more chubby/fat and the other has more muscle and chances are the scale will like and say they're the exact same person due to it not being able to differentiate muscle from fat...pinch test is best imo

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