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[Mom22anddetermined]

Ok.. so i bought this scale at wal-mart and its supposed to tell you your weight, water %, BMI, Bone Mass, and Body fat %... Well im not proud to say that i am currently at 242 and my scale says that my body fat % is 58%!! Is this possible? Ive always been somewhat of a muscular girl.. played soccer throughout my life up through high school. Before i had my son i weighed 145 but i wore a size 4.... Im just really stressing about the whole Fat % thing!

[pagliaccia]

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Those fat% things are notorious for being inaccurate. I wouldn't let it bug you, but you can see if it improves over time.

[Mom22anddetermined]

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so what should i focus most on? Clothing size or pounds?

[iamran]

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Deffinately on the clothing size. With the Atkins lifestyle you will find that a certain weight you will be smaller than you were at that same weight when you were not living the atkins way.

[pagliaccia]

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Definitely clothing size. I don't care if I weigh 8000 pounds so long as I fit into my high school jeans.

[JulieB]

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Definitely clothing size. I don't care if I weigh 8000 pounds so long as I fit into my high school jeans.

Do you really still own High-School era jeans? Mine would be museum-worthy! 20 years out-of-style - we wore them skin-tight right down to our ankles & really light blue...the 80s kinda scare me now I think we were rebelling against our parent's dark 70's bell-bottoms. The joke was on us!

[pagliaccia]

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Do you really still own High-School era jeans? Mine would be museum-worthy! 20 years out-of-style - we wore them skin-tight right down to our ankles & really light blue...the 80s kinda scare me now I think we were rebelling against our parent's dark 70's bell-bottoms. The joke was on us!

Haha, I grew out of my high-school era jeans so quickly, they're practically encased in amber. And yeah, the style was late 90's carpenter jeans and such... *shudder*

[stacy3477]

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Hey Julie! Those are back in style!!

Welcome determined! I'm with everyone else - don't worry too much about the scale - go with clothing sizes and/or measurements. If you really want to know body fat percentage, have yourself measured with calipers. Good luck!

[JulieB]

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[QUOTE=stacy3477;1105747]Hey Julie! Those are back in style!!

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NOOOOooooooooo Are they wearing them so tight you need pliers to do up the zipper?? (We were ridiculously stupid...) I REFUSE to go back! I like my dark flare jeans!

[Evansmom49]

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Julie - they had a news report last weekend on the Today show how there's a serious rise in all kinds of infections (yuk!) because of the tightness of women's jeans these days! They actually showed a clip of a girl laying on a bed and her friend using the pliers on the zipper!!!!

[OzLover]

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Make sure you take your measurements so you can keep track of inches lost!

[Whatsername]

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Lol Julie. I am with you. But I keep laughing when I look at the girls these days and I look at what they are wearing and think...that is exactly what I would have been wearing when I was in high school/college. lol Its just funny to see those styles again.

I like looking at what size I am wearing but it is also hard because no matter what my weight, my body has just changed. So for me it is a pretty even mix of my weight and my clothes size..with a slight emphasis on my clothes size I guess.

Jane

[JulieB]

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I'm not even sure what my size is...I haven't really bought anything new. My pants would fall off without a belt. My underwear actually nearly fell off the other day I'll buy some new stuff for fall/winter, and I suspect I'll have to again before we go to Mexico in February. It kills me to think I'm going to have to buy a bathing suit that I'll only ever wear for 2 weeks...not that I'm complaining!!!!

When those low-waisted hip-hugger jeans came in, quite a few women were going to their doctors complaining of numbness in their legs...they were wearing them so tight that they were compressing a nerve! In high-school (late 80s), if your jeans weren't so tight you needed pliers & two friends to get them on, they weren't tight enough.
I really hope harem pants, leg warmers and pants tucked into huge socks NEVER come back

[pagliaccia]

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I really hope harem pants, leg warmers and pants tucked into huge socks NEVER come back

Umm....then.....don't click here: Fashion trend on VOGUE.COM: Harem Pants (Vogue.com UK)

[JulieB]

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Umm....then.....don't click here: Fashion trend on VOGUE.COM: Harem Pants (Vogue.com UK)

Uuugh. Stop the world - I want to get off!!! I'm really glad I'm too old to care much about fashion...by the time I get used to this, it will be gone!