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Hey everyone, I've got a question about body fat percentage! It might take a bit time so bear with me please,

I've been going to the gym on and off this year and the year before, so I started going back 2 months ago with the goal of losing weight and lowering my body fat percentage and it has been really successful till this moment.
my stats:
1. 2 months ago
weight: 83 kg
body fat percentage: 19%
2. Now
weight: 73.5 kg
body fat percentage: 15%

but I've weighed myself earlier and my body fat percentage showed 14.3% but I was at 74.5 kg so I just want to know why is my body fat percentage is increasing while weight is dropping and my diet is still the same and I still exercise the same (5 days, early in the morning before eating or drinking).
So long story short, my weight is dropping and my body fat percentage is increasing!
 
PillarofBalance

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What method are you using to measure body fat?
 
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What method are you using to measure body fat?
At the gym there's a scale where you can weigh yourself and gives you:
1. Your weight
2. Your bone mass
3. Your body fat percentage
4. Water percentage
5. Other tissues percentages
And it's been really accurate when it comes to weight at least.
 
BrotherIron

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Scales that give you your bf% numbers are not accurate. You should at the very least have someone take it with lange calipers. Just makes sure the person using them is qualified and knows what their doing.
 
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Scales that give you your bf% numbers are not accurate. You should at the very least have someone take it with lange calipers. Just makes sure the person using them is qualified and knows what their doing.

As @BrotherIron said, bio-electric impedance scales are TERRIBLY inaccurate. They rely on way too many variables. Step on the scale and then go drink a 1/2 gallon of water and come back and do it again, and look at the difference. Not only that, they are based on tables and averages that require modifiers that at best make them as accurate as throwing a dart at a wall full of numbers. TOTALLY usless for a single point reference.

Even calipers are based on compiled tables and therefore not very accurate.

BUT the good news is you only want the trend. Skinfolds are great for tracking that. BUT it can not gauge VAT (visceral fat) something that men tend to carry a lot of. The best way to track is cheap and easy. Take you waist dia laying down first thing AM . Lying down takes state of flex of the abs out of it. First thing am takes a lot of digestion out of it so you dont have a bloated stomach as well.

Take it once or twice a week and plot. The nice thing about waist dia, is it is tracking VAT and Skinfolds. VAT is also the quickest to mobilize so in the beginning of tracking you can really see progress. Once you drop down below 10%-ish, you may have to switch to skinfolds to still see the steady progress, but if you got to 10% you probably realize the mirror and scale are all you really need to track BF%

At the end of the day what does the number matter? I would imagine you are dieting for a look, not to say ...."Hey may, I am (X)% bodyfat". Although I hear people all the time give me this BS and they are so far off they have zero idea. Screw the number, track the trend.
 
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I get a different reading every time from those 'machines'. One morning the gym was empty and I ran 7 tests within 15 minutes and they they ranged from the 7's to the 12's on the BF%.

Use the mirror.
Take a picture every week.
 
PillarofBalance

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At the gym there's a scale where you can weigh yourself and gives you:
1. Your weight
2. Your bone mass
3. Your body fat percentage
4. Water percentage
5. Other tissues percentages
And it's been really accurate when it comes to weight at least.
That's what I thought. Pay no attention to it.

Watch the scale for weight alone. But don't freak about that either as your progress isn't linear. Just use the mirror and how your clothes fit.
 
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I think going from 19% to 15% indicates you're losing BF.
 
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Were you getting enough protien in your diet while dieting? If you werent that can do it.
 
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