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Originally posted by hannukah harry
dylan,
multiply your weight by your body fat % to determine the amount of fat weight you have. you'll notice you've lost about 5 lbs of fat. the rest of the weight loss is probably a mixture of water and lean mass then.
the scale tells you your body fat by sending an electrical impluse through you and receiving it back. based on the amount of time it takes, it can figure out your body fat. most scales have somewhere around a 5% error swing though, so it's possible that it hasn't been super accurate when determining your bf%.
skin fold calipers, if done by someone properly trained to use them, can be much more accurate and they're cheap.
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Cool man, thanks for the clarification and info.
I used to get the skin fold thing done when I was in high school and I remember it being very accurate.