<p>Are the dresses and the bruises color-coordinated, CD?
Glad you and workinprogress2’s H are doing well.</p>
<p>Counting down - wow, you’ve been through the ringer! You’ve got a good ticker now and you’re still with us Dummies–we’ll be here when the bruises fade, or we can all wear purple and blue in unison!</p>
<p>I bought a body % fat monitor…for $19.99.</p>
<p>[Omron</a> HBF-306C Fat Loss Monitor, Black: Amazon.com: Health & Personal Care](<a href=“http://www.amazon.com/Omron-HBF-306C-Loss-Monitor-Black/dp/B000FYZMYK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1343556782&sr=8-1&keywords=omron+fat+loss+monitor]Omron”>http://www.amazon.com/Omron-HBF-306C-Loss-Monitor-Black/dp/B000FYZMYK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1343556782&sr=8-1&keywords=omron+fat+loss+monitor)</p>
<p>It looks like it’s a little tricky to get “correct” results–you can’t be dehydrated and you have to wait at least a couple of hours after a meal and you need to void your bladder, etc. You get the picture.</p>
<p>I’m at 31% body fat now, which is in the normal range. Ran it on the hubby–8%!! What the heck!!! Is it already broken, lol?!</p>
<p>I like the maintenance weight I’m at now, but I wouldn’t mind exchanging muscle for fat. I’m hoping that this little gadget will help me do that.</p>
<p>With luck, I’ll be able to get back into the swing of things next week when it comes to exercising.</p>
<p>jym, one dress is blue and the other is light purple - so yes, I will be color coordinated! :)</p>
<p>worknprogress2, congrats to your DH on a good recovery! I haven’t been on a bike since college, unless you count an exercise bike…</p>
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<p>A man with 8% body fat should be showing six-pack abs.</p>
<p>31% body fat for a woman is borderline, according to the chart found here: [Body</a> fat percentage - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_fat_percentage]Body”>Body fat percentage - Wikipedia)</p>
<p>However, the electrical resistance measurements are rather sensitive to hydration levels. High bone density can also be mistaken for fat (both are more resistive than water).</p>
<p>Took a bit of a food/diet holiday this weekend. Scale was not kind to me today. Back to the drawing board…</p>
<p>I’m with you, jym! Looks like I’m packing my own lunch and snacks to whittle down my wonderful vacation indulgences. I think I will need to start logging every exercise and food to get back on track. I also am behind on my hydration habit, so this is real weight, not water. New goal: 5 pounds of weight loss by Labor Day trimmed off, while fully hydrated.</p>
<p>Now where did I bookmark that tracking website …</p>
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<p>Hubby must be dehydrated AND light boned, lol! And I hope I have high bone density…</p>
<p>I think it will take some finagling to get to where I can get consistent results on the little machine. But for $20, I couldn’t resist.</p>
<p>My body fat is around 28% according to my Dr but since my joints don’t want to hold me up I still want to lose weight. However hard to do when my bones start aching long before any muscle that I have left. Sorry I am grumpy- had a Dr appt today and she commented that my body was like it was 80!
(I’m 54):(<br>
I need someone to do yoga with. I’m not that motivated to get on the ground by myself unless I am digging in the garden.
( that gives me an idea)</p>
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<p>High bone density is associated with weight bearing exercise (weight lifting, running, hiking, etc.). Some of the electrical resistance body fat devices have an “athlete mode” that changes the calculation to assume higher bone density (and gives lower body fat percentage results), although that is a rather crude adjustment. Bone density also varies genetically.</p>
<p>One simple proxy of abdominal fatness is to measure your waistline at navel level. Under 50% of height is preferable for good health, although some people may need to go lower if they are genetically prone to diabetes or other problems generally associated with excess abdominal fatness. Athletes often have waistlines several percent below 50% of height.</p>
<p>I clearly haven’t grown to my full adult height. 
My BMI is 30.1 and by the charts, I still have ~35 lbs. to go.</p>
<p>We’re here to help you count it down, CountingDown!</p>
<p>I have the fat monitor set on Athlete mode…I love having a goal to shoot for, now that I’ve reached “maintenance level” when it comes to weight. I definitely would like to decrease my fat %, but I have not really figured out how to do it. Are we talking “low carb”/ketones again? </p>
<p>BTW: did our raspberry ketone lab rat come to the conclusion that RKs were not useful?</p>
<p>I’m down 1.5 lbs this week. Yahoo!</p>
<p>Congrats, EPTR!! You lost it and I found it I tend to think of it in physics terms- that matter cannot be created or destroyed, only transformed. So when someone loses weight, perhaps it just gets transformed somewhere else ;)</p>
<p>Sshhh, Jym. If you say it out loud, it will be so and I will earn it back from you next week.</p>
<p>Lets send it to someone who needs to gain weight. Always happy to make that kind of donation.</p>
<p>Snowflake, I don’t know if this is the tracking site you were looking for but I’ve found [Free</a> Calorie Counter, Diet & Exercise Journal | MyFitnessPal.com](<a href=“http://www.myfitnesspal.com%5DFree”>http://www.myfitnesspal.com) to be really helpful.</p>
<p>I’ve used livestrong.com - don’t know if it’s better or worse than myfitnesspal.</p>
<p>3katz: I LOVE myfitnesspal and have used it on my computer and iphone for about a year now. Love, love, love.</p>
<p>Thanks, I will look at both of those and compare to atkins.com tracker. I have also used jillianmichaels, but that one you had to pay for to use… too bad because for my 30-day shred a few years ago I really liked it. Ideally I want one that I can initally load from my computer and then add updates from my phone, otherwise I get behind and then frustrated and give up. (Darn that undisciplined part of me … the same side of me that likes Ben and Jerry’s!)</p>