Body fat % up slightly, but still losing weight?

Prem51 said:

The 'normal' figures for a female are;
Age 18-39; 21.0--32.9%
Age 40-59; 23.0-33.9%
Age 60-80: 24.0-35.9%

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Cor - my scales (just glass ones with those steel bits that you position your feet on - they give me my weight, BMI, body fat percentage and water percentage, and I wouldn't think they're terribly accurate) calculate mine at 19.8 - according to this I am three points off 'regular'. I have upped my fat intake massively in the last couple of weeks since I've found it such a struggle to put my recently lost weight back on - at this rate I'd better go back to caaaaaaaarbs.....
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Snapsy said:

Cor - my scales (just glass ones with those steel bits that you position your feet on - they give me my weight, BMI, body fat percentage and water percentage, and I wouldn't think they're terribly accurate) calculate mine at 19.8 - according to this I am three points off 'regular'. I have upped my fat intake massively in the last couple of weeks since I've found it such a struggle to put my recently lost weight back on - at this rate I'd better go back to caaaaaaaarbs.....
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I wouldn't worry too much. This table puts both of us into the athlete's range, so it's not all bad. :

Thanks for the reassurance @AndBreathe - I feel much better now!

AndBreathe said:

I wouldn't worry too much. This table puts both of us into the athlete's range, so it's not all bad. :

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Wow, those figures make me an 'athlete' too!
Unfortunately I don't think that wikipedia is 100% reliable.

Prem51 said:

Wow, those figures make me an 'athlete' too!
Unfortunately I don't think that wikipedia is 100% reliable.

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Prem, I completely agree Wiki can be ropy to say the least, but there are a vast number of those sorts of table if you Google something like "healthy body fat percentages female". I've looked at quite a number and the Wiki one is very similar to many.

As for being an athlete? I'm very well, and able to undertake sustained physical effort, but I don't work out. I do have a sort of six pack, but that's more due to a lack of body fat and the fact that pre-trimming up, any weight I did have was around my mid-section, so there's a bit of skin that hasn't quite pinged back into the shape it would have done, were I 25.

Hey ho. Life could be worse.