Bod Pod Body Fat Test Results

[bacardio]

I posted some info and questions in my training log, but since I don't get a lot of traffic there, I thought I would post some questions here.

On Saturday, I went and had a Bod Pod body fat test done. I thought it was suppose to be better than a hydro test, but looking at the notes on the result sheet looks like it is within 2% of a hydro test. Was a little disappointed in results. Thought based on my last hydro test I should be around 15-16% BF. Test results came in at 17.8%. Seems I have lost muscle mass, since my hydro test. I guess I will buy that. I was lifting quite a bit back then. My BMR has dropped from 1970 to 1746 kcal.

Here's the weird thing it gave me this estimated calories vs activity level numbers.

Est TEE(kcals/day) ---------------- Act Level
2235 ------------------------------- Sedentary
2637 ------------------------------- Low Active
3039 -------------------------------- Active
3633 ------------------------------- Very Active

I explained to the trainer my activity level with hockey, TKD, and lifting and he said I would be in that "active" category.
I find the burned calorie numbers complete BS, if I ate 3000 cals, I would gain weight like it was going out of style. I am keeping my calories right now around the 1800-2100 calories and I am losing but VERY SLOW. According to this, I should be dropping close to 2 pounds a week!!!

How much can a person vary from the norm, when it comes to your muscle's ability to burn calories (slow metabolism vs fast)?????

Could I be not getting enough to eat and actually hindering my fat loss efforts???


Also, was thinking of something the trainer told me on the way the body burns certain types of food and it didn't really "jive" for me. The trainer was talking about how the body burns certain foods and compared a McDonald's hamburger to green, wet wood and vegetables to dry kindling. Stating that the body would burn through 400 calories of healthy(veggies), faster than it would 400 calories of garbage food (hamburger). Now I know the veggies have more nutrients and the body burns proteins slower, but does it really care if the calories come from healthy compared to unhealthy when referring to burn rate???

Thanks