Sat, Sep-20-03, 18:50
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Senior Member
Posts: 119
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Plan: Atkins
Stats: 185/170.5/145
BF:39%/34.7%/24%
Progress: 36%
Location: Olympic Peninsula, WA
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BF% vs. BMI
okay, like a twit, i have been going right along with these two terms (body fat percentage and body mass index) entangled in my brain. reading on nat's homepage today and realized i had the two muddled. i have been posting my BMI in my BF percentage in my profile. (i confess, in '95, i had RAM and ROM confused, and now i smirk when computer neophytes call my office wanting to upgrade their ROM so the internet will run faster... smugness and humiliation are strange bedfellows.)
there are tons of available BMI calculators online.
but is the only way to calculate your BF to see a doc and have yourself floated in some futuristic tank with sensors strapped all over your body?
(sorry to have to post this, im sure its been addressed a hundred times, but the search engine wouldn't accept the term BF due to too few letters, and trying to sort through every thread ever containing BMI was killing me- i am a busy mommy of two toddlers, after all!)
TIA!
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