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Sep 2008
8:59pm, 30 Sep 2008
40,201 posts
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Hanneke
I love running, I hate training 
Dr Bob, that is why I suggested those scales! Also, I don't believe in the newfan gled ones that tell you bodyfat and the like... they can never be accurate!
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Oct 2008
5:04pm, 17 Oct 2008
21 posts
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bagelFS
^ my BF scales tell me I am 12-13% body fat. Erm...I don't think so. Whilst my body is not soft and squidgy, my body fat can hardly be that low...
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Oct 2008
5:39pm, 17 Oct 2008
1,839 posts
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Big Al Widepants
They are notoriously inaccurate Bagellover. You need a proper caliper test. Sounds painful but it isn't.
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Oct 2008
6:09pm, 17 Oct 2008
22 posts
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bagelFS
I think I'll survive without someone pinching away at me (although I hear this isn't even too accurate).
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Oct 2008
6:12pm, 17 Oct 2008
4,544 posts
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Velociraptor
That's the spirit, bagellover. Body fat percentage is one of those things that most of us really don't need to know and certainly don't need to be measuring day in, day out and stressing over.
For me, "trousers won't fasten" means my body fat is too high, and "amenorrhoea" would mean that it was too low.
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Oct 2008
6:25pm, 17 Oct 2008
23 posts
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bagelFS
I think BMI is very inaccurate too. My sister's a doctor and she says she sees people in the 16, 17 and 18s who look (and are) healthy and people over 25 who also look (and are) healthy.
I personally have always been small...I weigh 49kg for 5'5" which isn't much but then I'm just SMALL in terms of frame...(can't buy bangles as they fall off my wrists etc) I look pretty healthy though, not underweight or skeletal or anything that my BMI of 18 would point me towards. And I always get that time of the month (joy). My brother is the same. I think the only time I would worry is if I wasn't menstruating/was always tired/etc.
Guidelines are good and helpful...but that it is all they are. Guidelines.
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Oct 2008
11:01pm, 17 Oct 2008
41,248 posts
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Hanneke
Well said bagellover
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Oct 2008
11:03pm, 17 Oct 2008
41,249 posts
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Hanneke
And I have always taken V-raps view too... if my jeans got too tight, I needed to drop some weight, as I did not want to buy new clothes... I have never had amenorrhoea, even though some people think I am too thin. I feel fit, healthy and energetic, so I must still have enough fat levels to keep me ticking over happily But I did weigh myself on the exes scales today and have dropped another 2 kgs and now weigh 60 kgs... at 1.76 that is getting a bit thin, even for racing weight... must have been those miles in the Lakes? Did eat loads of cake though
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Oct 2008
11:05pm, 17 Oct 2008
1,978 posts
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hls
If you have to be thin to win does that mean it is okay to finish last cos you are fat
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Oct 2008
11:07pm, 17 Oct 2008
9,544 posts
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plodding hippo
yes, it would do, but fatter people regularly pass me in races, and i have been last more often thatn you have had hot dinners
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