Baby Fat

DaveT — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:38:37 +0000

I’m skinny, I was born skinny (part of being born premature) and aside from a brief stint of being over fed as a youngster (pic inside) I have always been skinny. At one point I was pretty close to being un-healthily skinny (thanks mono) but now I seem to be have settled down to a nice stable healthy looking weight even though people still constantly ask me if I have lost weight. My weight has stayed the same since the beginning of the year but I started to wonder what my body fat percentage was and whether or not I was at a healthy weight.

I can’t really afford to get properly tested in a dunk tank so I opted for the next best thing.

A body Fat Estimator, and my girlfriends fancy digital scale. At 6ft 150lbs the digital scale placed my body fat percentage at 18% while this estimator placed me at 13% body fat.

To be safe I am going to say I am going to go with the high number 18%.

Is this a healthy number? Unhealthy? I had no idea so I asked Jeeves hit up google.

According to this chart from bmi-calculator.com

Body Fat Percentage Categories
Classification	Women (% fat)	Men (% fat)
Essential Fat	10-12%	2-4%
Athletes	14-20%	6-13%
Fitness	21-24%	14-17%
Acceptable	25-31%	18-25%
Obese	32%+	25%+

at 18% I fall in acceptable and 13% I fall in athletic. I think if I were to get properly tested I would fall in the ‘fitness’ category.

From my understanding though body fat percentages are only really used to plan weight loss goals and slice I have never, and hopefully never have to, set out to intentionally lose weight in my life this is all just hear say and poppy cock.

But at least I don’t look like this anymore

For no reason here is a video of a 400lb 7 year old

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Baby Fat