So I guess I'm fat now?!!?

[slat1]

I thought you would all enjoy this as I think we have all had a moment like this at one time or another.
I was sitting with a trainer and she handed me one of those electronic body fat machines that you hold. I came back at 22.8% body fat. Shocking for me to say the least. I have been in fat kid mode stuffing my face for two weeks but wow.
I'm going back today with Lange calipers. I have to be below 20%. I have abs when relaxed!!!
Any way. I'm 6'3" and around 235. When she told me what the machine said I didn't hear a thing she said after that! LOL. I just kept thinking about how fat I have become.
I guess I found my motivation...

 

[superqt4u2nv]

Those machine's are usless ... if you can see your abs my guess is your closer to 14-16%

 

[dmk777]

Totally agree there pointless they are always wrong my gym got one and wanted to charge people to use it lol imagine people paying to get the shock of there life!!

 

[zedhed]

Yep bro that impedance tester is a joke that notoreously innaccurate. Just use your caliper. And bro you know that if you can see abs then there is no way you are 20+%...no way in hell man!

 

[slat1]

I'm guessing I'm 16% to 18%. I have to get the caliper test. In the end I know those things are a joke and I did get motivation from hearing that number. I don't mind a little extra body fat as I fill back out and recover from surgery. This summer I will drop back down.
I feel bad for the poor people who don't know those machines are a mess. They also gave me my body mass index. Just a shade under obese!

 

[zedhed]

Yah bro I was explaining that to the sistas on here. Just because we get ourselves muscualr donst mean that it is the most healthy condition for us. Even with the muscles instead of fat we are mostly above our ideal body weight and the BMI tells us we are obese! So we all need to keep up on the cardo for our heart health. I am well into the obese catagory however right now I am at 16% BF. At my age thats not too terrible...
I know that as I drop BF and gain more muscle (weight) that condition will increase. So that means cardio every day for me.

 

[slat1]

I swear my gym has Fun House mirrors too. One day I look like a Calvin Klien underwear model. The next I look like a turd with legs.

 

[caligirl85]

I swear my gym has Fun House mirrors too. One day I look like a Calvin Klien underwear model. The next I look like a turd with legs.

Slat...this made me laugh!! I go through that too. One day I think...not bad...the next day, I wonder who I'm looking at in the mirror and am usually disturbed when I realize it's ME!! LOL

 

[dmk777]

Yep its our mind it plays trix on us lol.
It's crazy it's physically impossible to change that much over night but defamatory in my mind I can lol


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[slat1]

It probably doesn't help that I am pasty white either.
Screw it. I live in NH now. I was going to stop gaining when I hit 240. Well I hit it and over a steak bomb I decided 250 is the new 240. I am going to have to hit the gym every day for a LONG time!