I'm the other way round from you guys in that I never have booze in the house and always go to pubs to drink. I really like taking my tablet to a pub and just sitting reading comics and whatnot while getting slowly sozzled. That's probably very weird of me, but it's nice to be sort of out-and-about and in places with an atmosphere while still just chilling out on my own. It means the temptation to go to the pub of a weekend is always there though even if I don't have any plans to meet friends or whatever and that's dangerous for losing weight. Not least because one symptom of doing that is the general desire to buy loads of crap food on the way back to my flat which doubles down on the damage.

Decided to start actually using MFP, and I'm going to start doing my home workouts again. I am currently 175lbs. I have a rough goal weight of 150lbs in mind, but the key is to get back into a size 12 without feeling like I'm going to die from blood/oxygen restriction. I want to achieve this by my anniversary.

I might be mistaken but I don't think you start a triathlon stark bollock naked.

How do you work it out?

Pretty sure current based density measures are junk science

Don't piss on my chips..... *sobs*

Don't piss on my chips..... *sobs*

Think about it logically - sure, it's measuring resistance to current as it passes through your body, which we know is altered by passing through different tissues. But why would it take any route other than up one leg and down the other? Even if it did, how would the scales be able to differentiate based on what route it took? If it's going up one leg and down the other, how would it measure any part of your body other than your legs?

The weight is KG. The rest are %. The scales I use have metal plates on that send a current round the body. Fat, muscle and bone are differing density.

I doubt it is very accurate, but it seem constant.

This may help...

Most of these types of scales use bioelectrical impedance. That is to say, they send a safe and very low electrical current through the lower half of the body. Since the electrical current flows more quickly through water and muscle than bone or fat, the scale measures the speed of the current.

your body acts as a complete circuit. This measures more than your legs.

“BIA* had the biggest spread of all the methods, even bigger than BMI,” explains Weightology founder James Krieger. “The error rate got as high as 8%, and that’s for detecting a change over time. So one could lose 4% body fat, yet BIA might show an increase in body fat of 4%.”

It doesn't though. That's completely made up. Their own comment that you posted upthread says the current is only passed through the lower half of the body.

Here's a decent link covering the issues:



https://muscleevo.net/body-fat-scales/

As you stand on the plates.. it does not stop at your bollocks, it will do the whole of your body.

When you use a van der gaff gernertor, you hair stands up, as you complete a circuit.

He's weighing his bollocks now?

I've squashed my plums