Set off the Fireworks"- Lose 15 pounds by July 4th! A new

[hubbys_girl]

Re: Set off the Fireworks"- Lose 15 pounds by July 4th! A new

hahahahahahahaha! Funny Adena, my laudry list! It is what Jules and the others did so I had to follow suit!

[julirama723]

Re: Set off the Fireworks"- Lose 15 pounds by July 4th! A new

Everybody who's COOL is doing it.

[Adena]

Re: Set off the Fireworks"- Lose 15 pounds by July 4th! A new

Okay, here it is. Man, I'm not going to do that WEEKLY -- I don't have time! I'll go with Cher's once a month, or maybe every couple of weeks.

Oh, and I decided on a tatoo... tick marks all over my body so I can make sure I'm putting the tape measure in the same place everytime!

Weight 215.00lbs
Abdomen 49.50
Hips 44.00in
Thigh 29.50in
Knee 16.00in
Calf 17.00in
Neck 14.00in
Ankle 8.50in
Shoulders 42.00in
Arm 14.00in
Chest 44.00in
Forearm 10.25in
Waist 40.00in
Wrist 6.25in
Body fat percentage: 42.68% (GASP!)

[Adena]

Re: Set off the Fireworks"- Lose 15 pounds by July 4th! A new

Hey, Julie -- I meant to ask you. What does fittogether say your body fat percentage is? I bet it's much lower than other readings you've gotten, since it's based on so many measurements...

I'm appalled at my 42%+, but not surprised. I'm a jiggly mess...

[hubbys_girl]

Re: Set off the Fireworks"- Lose 15 pounds by July 4th! A new

Adena, you are not a jiggly mess! You are a strong woman who runs marathons and who is burning that fat! Ok, I feel like a jiggly mess too! LOL I will relent now!

[adreliluc]

Re: Set off the Fireworks"- Lose 15 pounds by July 4th! A new

Well here are my measurements... seeing the numbers is shocking!! Sad to see and accept yet motivating to get better!!

Neck - 14
Shoulders - 43.5
Chest - 40
Bust - 41.5
Waist - 36.5
Abdomen - 40
Hips - 45
L & R Arms - 13.75
Wrists - 6.5
L & R Theighs - 23
Knees - 16 (???!!! lol)
Calfs - 16.5
Ankles - 9.75

So basically what this tells me is that I'm shaped like a line backer!! lol

I had my hubby help w/ these so they're close but I was interupting his game playing so he wasn't completley motivated to help me. lol
I'm going to weigh in the morning and make that my official starting weight... I had a bad weekend eating wise!!
I took "before" pictures too... Not sure if I'll post them though... Yet anyway.

[adreliluc]

Re: Set off the Fireworks"- Lose 15 pounds by July 4th! A new

YIKES FitToGether says my body fat is 40.95! I'm not surprised either but at the same time it's like I've come so far yet still have so far to go... sigh!!

[hubbys_girl]

Re: Set off the Fireworks"- Lose 15 pounds by July 4th! A new

OMG my body fat percentage is 45%+! I knoew it was high, but seriously! Tomorrow is pilates and my cardiotone dvd! Ugghhhh I am so not thrilled!

[SweetCher]

Re: Set off the Fireworks"- Lose 15 pounds by July 4th! A new

I'm just checking in and it's a little bit late (((( sorry )))))) and everybody is waiting for me to watch a movie ((((Yikes)))). But, I'm reading everybody's comments real quick. How funny!

I'm so proud of everyone for getting your measurements in.
I'll be back after the movie.
's to you!!

[Lyssie]

Re: Set off the Fireworks"- Lose 15 pounds by July 4th! A new

Sorry to be a party pooper, but I think sometimes their percentages are off a little. For example, when I weighed 215, I had BF% of 36.13, 206 and 37.28, oh, and 217 and 37.97... I'm all over the place. I mean, obviously these are just a couple rounds, within that period of time there are 9 measurements (4 at night)... anyway, I think some are closer than others and I think that the measurements are definitely closer than going by height/weight, but nothing is *completely* accurate...

[julirama723]

Re: Set off the Fireworks"- Lose 15 pounds by July 4th! A new

For those measurements I just took, it says I'm at 36.49% body fat. I feel like that's a little high. True it's based off of measurements, but by simply entering a number, the program that calculates it can't tell if the measurement is muscle or fat. For instance, I have a surprising amount of muscle in my arms...well and a surprising amount of fat. But I'm sure the program is reading my elephant arms as 100% fat.

[Lyssie]

Re: Set off the Fireworks"- Lose 15 pounds by July 4th! A new

nooo.. actually, the way they used to base it is done for your measurements versus other measurements on your body... they had this graph that would show where you would be according to certain measurements in relation to the other ones, it was really awesome.

Also, I should probably mention that I used their numbers and did some calculations to try and base whether my goal weight was off or not... so I wanted about 25% BF, right? For women, essential fat is 10-12%, Athletes have 14-20%, Fitness have 21-24%, Acceptable is 25-31%... so anyway, I went through the calculations and ended up with (based on the measurements BF% from that site), that for me to have 25% bodyfat, would be 159lbs.

So anyway, that's basically what I have to say about that. Of course, if you do have a really disproportionate amount of muscle in one area, it would be off...

[julirama723]

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Lyssie do they still have that chart? I wanna check it out!

I understand that they're basing it off of compared measurements, but how do they know how much fat or muscle a body has? I feel like my body fat % should be in the low 30s honestly.

[Lyssie]

Re: Set off the Fireworks"- Lose 15 pounds by July 4th! A new

They used to do a separate chart for each person - when it was mybodycomp.com... since they revised things, they took that out too, so it would give you where it thought you should be, based on things, then plot out where you were on different parts of your body compared to where it said.

I don't know about the % thing, honestly, I've never seen you nekkid (no, I don't want to either). I know that I lost 2% in 6.5lbs so I really don't think it's that far off. I dunno, there are all kinds of other things you can use to judge health and see how much you have to go.. there's the whole waist:hip ratio thing, BMI... ummm... I don't remember every one that I've done... but basically they all went from saying I have a really lot to go, to saying I have some to go to become acceptable... *shrug*

[adreliluc]

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My weight is up to 183 this morning. GRRRRR me!!
TOM *should* be here, so I know I'm bloated but that's like 5 lbs since last week!!??!!
Not sure if I should use 183 that I am today or the 178 I was last week?? Maybe I should just call it 180? lol.