My bodyfat

Well, if you read my blog, you know that the Challenge is all about lost bodyfat.  I've been hovering at around 45-46%, 47% on my gym's machine (calipers say 35%, but that's because I'm so muscular). Anyway, I watch that more than I watch the pounds. Tonight I had a surprise.  42% bodyfat. 42% If that sticks, that would mean a 4% bodyfat reduction that would help me get in the lead to win.  Please please please.... I say "sticks" because the body is in constant flux. But if it's accurate, I'm both tickled and confused.  Tickled because it almost means that at maybe 200-220 I'll be in a normal bodyfat of 30%.  Confused because will I be "a stick" at 160? I know, I'm awfully muscular (155lbs of lean body weight) and that's in my favor and why weight loss is slow, as well as why calipers are hard to gauge my bodyfat.  (I've been wondering if my lean body weight will go down at all because, otherwise I'll always be a bit big. Anyway, just wanted to share.  Any of you (LVS?) who watch your bodyfat will understand that this number is a shock. ETA:  Interesting stuff from training with another trainer for a day (who loved working with me), I'm stronger than even her on some things. I feel like a circus freak, LOL.

Good for you!  You'll just be a lean, mean, fighting machine!!

Now this has got to make you feel good. :-)    Just proves the scale isn't the most important thing.  Your living proof.

Good for you !

 

WTG! That is a great stride.  I have not tracked mine - don't know how I feel about gym-style calipers method. Back in my gym days, I had mine done one week (read 37%), then asked a different guy two weeks later to do me and got 42%. My weight at that time was about 205 ish. I had been lifting faithfully and running about 5 years at that stage.  I am built like a brick house, so I expect i will never be stick even at 160! I don't *think* that's how it works...at some point it seems that you kind of preserve what muscle mass you have - or you should, anyway, cuz muscle loss is not good, right?  regardless, wtg!

FLUKE. ; / Well, it's higher this morning, so it IS about hydration. OK.  At least I know the trick on assessment days. Yeah, muscle loss is not good.  It's just that at 155lbs of lean body mass, that makes it seem like I'll look quite fit while still in the 2s unless the muscle lessens.  Weird.

Hmm I wonder what my bodyfat and muscle and al lthat stuff is....hmm. Guess I will never know unless I buy a certain Scale. lol

42% seems to be my evening body fat.  Go figure.  Least it's consistent.