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Originally Posted by elisabethd
According to my BMI, I am overweight. According to my BF levels, I am in pretty dang good condition for a 45 year old woman. Since I started seriously lifting weights 18 months ago, I have gone from 45% bodyfat to about 28% today. However, my weight has only changed by 20 lbs. I weigh a whopping 164 lbs, for 5'4" that's a heck of a lot! Thank goodness for body fat calculations. Screw BMI calculations!
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That's great - and a big DITTO for what you said! I'm overweight by BMI, and while I am not thin, at 25-26% bodyfat, I'm not in awful shape for a 40-year-old mom. Most people would guess I weigh a lot less than the scale says I do... (but I still want that number to get lower
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