The calipers are useless for me. After losing so much weight, there are folds of loose skin around my midrift. The calipers would have me at "severely obese".
I bought a $300 scale that does bioelectric impedance measuring. It measured me at 9.9%.
TSD: I upped my caloric intake to 2,000 because I was losing too much weight at 1,500... my doctor told me to slow it down or stop. At 2,000 I'm staying steady at 165. Even though I added 500 I am now breaking even. What I'm not happy with is that I'm burning 1,000 in exercise via swimming and other cardio. So if I am eating 2000 and I'm burning 1000, then my base metabolism is only 1000, which is severely screwed up.
Only reason I want to get to 163 is because then I figure I can order pizza and not feel insanely guilty about it.
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