So many people don't know their body fat percentage. I've been using a scale that is quite reliable, but I also found a calculator that seems to return the same results as the scale, so I thought I'd link to it. It also was very reliable for my son and my husband so there we are!

Here we go: http://www.superskinnyme.com/body-fat-calculator.html

Looks good, GG. I'll have to measure myself and try it.

So many people don't know their body fat percentage. I've been using a scale that is quite reliable, but I also found a calculator that seems to return the same results as the scale, so I thought I'd link to it. It also was very reliable for my son and my husband so there we are!

Here we go: http://www.superskinnyme.com/body-fat-calculator.html

This looks handy. My only question is what is the proper way to measure waist? Some have said at the belly button, others below the belly button. Where do you measure from?

So many people don't know their body fat percentage. I've been using a scale that is quite reliable, but I also found a calculator that seems to return the same results as the scale, so I thought I'd link to it. It also was very reliable for my son and my husband so there we are!

Here we go: http://www.superskinnyme.com/body-fat-calculator.html

This looks handy. My only question is what is the proper way to measure waist? Some have said at the belly button, others below the belly button. Where do you measure from?

What I have heard is to measure the narrowest part of your torso so that is what I do. I like that advice for obvious reasons

i have heard both as well, I prefer the narrowest point... at or below my belly button is over my hip bones...above the narowist point are my ribs, that can't be right!

This may be a dumb question, but I was curious to see if, using the percentages, I could go "backwards" through the numbers. Turns out that the percentage numbers indicate the same number as my total weight lost. I might be doing the math wrong, or at the minimum doing the wrong equation. But I was multiplying the current fat percentage by the current weight to get the number of fat pounds, then multiplying the old fp by the old weight for the number of fat pounds, and then subtracting to see if the number was the same as total weight lost. It was.

We can pretty much assume at this point that we are losing fat only, yes?

This may be a dumb question, but I was curious to see if, using the percentages, I could go "backwards" through the numbers. Turns out that the percentage numbers indicate the same number as my total weight lost. I might be doing the math wrong, or at the minimum doing the wrong equation. But I was multiplying the current fat percentage by the current weight to get the number of fat pounds, then multiplying the old fp by the old weight for the number of fat pounds, and then subtracting to see if the number was the same as total weight lost. It was.

We can pretty much assume at this point that we are losing fat only, yes?

I don't know that we can assume that, but of my 55 lbs, only 5 has been lean mass. But I'm not exercising as much as you are, and not doing any cardio so YMMV but by and large, for estimation purposes, I would assume 99.9% of initial weight loss is likely fat.

God knows I had enough of it to lose!