CherryAA
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I think you need to get in some pies, deep fried mars bars, chips and a large pack of dorritos and " act your age" at once.
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I think you need to get in some pies, deep fried mars bars, chips and a large pack of dorritos and " act your age" at once.
I've just received some Tanita Body Composition Scales and am struggling with them at the moment, although from what I can gather I seem to have a healthy composition. It is the visceral fat percentage I am interested in. I know they are likely to be vague and inaccurate, but I am happy to accept my visceral fat percentage, which is 6%.(Healthy range 1 to 12) and will be watching out for trends.
Bluetit - Bearing in mind you've been in maintaining mode for quite some time, I wouldn't be expecting to see much, if any movement in your VF score.
My own scales are the Omron BF511s, but they do pretty much the same (except have no wifi/bluetooth interactivity). My VF is 3 and simply hasn't changed for a looooong time.
When I was losing (and had bought myself these scales), the VF score was the slowest to come down; I'm guessing much to do with what percentage of the whole (body) that's actually being measured.
I love my Omrons. I hope you get on with your Tanitas.
When I used a set of professional Tanita scales at a diabetes event, I was similarly youthful, Bluetit. I think I still have the printout somewhere. It to told me to gain weight to notch my BMI up to 22.
When you set up your scales, did you have to decide if you were sedentary, "normal" or an athlete? Being a curious old girl, I ran through the measuring process twice; based on being normal (Me? Normal? Never knowingly so.
), then again as an athlete. The print out was different. I must try to find them.Don't you just hate some people !! (not really - it's simply the big green monster called jealousy raising it's ugly head again
)As it happens, I have the same scale, Omron BF511, and started off with VF of 9, which I got down to 8 - and has stuck there ever since!! Nothing I do can shift it; dropped to 7 for 2 weeks at one stage, then promptly went back to 8 and has stayed put. It is v. depressing but I'm determined to keep trying.
Don't you just hate some people !! (not really - it's simply the big green monster called jealousy raising it's ugly head again
As it happens, I have the same scale, Omron BF511, and started off with VF of 9, which I got down to 8 - and has stuck there ever since!! Nothing I do can shift it; dropped to 7 for 2 weeks at one stage, then promptly went back to 8 and has stayed put. It is v. depressing but I'm determined to keep trying.
I'm a skinny, scrawny, old bird, so there's not a lot of padding on my bones; hence the low VF.
Bluetit1802
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When you set up your scales, did you have to decide if you were sedentary, "normal" or an athlete? Being a curious old girl, I ran through the measuring process twice; based on being normal (Me? Normal? Never knowingly so.
A lot of reviews diss the body comp scales because they get different results depending on whether they are athletes, sedentary or whatever. It does seem very odd to me. I think I put "normal" in. I can't remember. I think they are geared more to young people and throw a bit of a wobbly when someone is 70. Mr Blue's metabolic age came out as 44 but he is 72. So clearly there is something wrong with the calculations on metabolic age. I shall just ignore it.
CherryAA
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Don't you just hate some people !! (not really - it's simply the big green monster called jealousy raising it's ugly head again
As it happens, I have the same scale, Omron BF511, and started off with VF of 9, which I got down to 8 - and has stuck there ever since!! Nothing I do can shift it; dropped to 7 for 2 weeks at one stage, then promptly went back to 8 and has stayed put. It is v. depressing but I'm determined to keep trying.
well mine has only gone from 13.5 to 10 ... long slow haul......
It surely is ....
though you've done well reducing by 3.5 points, good progress to be pleased about
CherryAA
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yeah I know, I'm kinda happy with it, I was looking at my blood results today for an insurance application - so happy that basically I am now simply a healthy human being !
