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Originally Posted by Devils'Advocate
Are you absolutely sure you NEED to drop the last 10 pounds?
If you are dropping a pants size, you are likely reducing mid-rift fat, and if you are staying the same weight it is being re-distrubuted elsewhere, possibly as lean tissue. People concentrate on that weight number when better numbers to look at are waist size and body fat percentage.
Does anyone know a good ACCURATE way to measure body fat besides calipers? I can't use the calipers because after losing 170 pounds, you are left with a lot of loose skin, particularly around the belly area, so it throws off the measurement. I bought a $250 scale that uses bioelectrical impedance to estimate body fat percentage and it says 9%, but I don't believe it and several articles I have read doubt the science behind bioelectrical impedance. Is there a means to get a more accurate measure?
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Water displacement, ie. Hydrostatic body fat test:
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Why Hydrostatic Testing?
As body fat testing, rather than simple scale weight, has become "the standard" in this new millennium, Hydrostatic Testing (Underwater Weighing) has become universally regarded by industry experts as the "Gold Standard" in body fat testing. Renowned author and fitness expert Covert Bailey, in the phenomenal best seller "Fit or Fat", states: "That hydrostatic testing (underwater immersion) is the most accurate method for body fat determination."
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http://www.getdunked.com/home/default.asp
Where can you get this performed? That's another story altogether.