what's your body fat % ... if you're an average eater/exerciser
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Anonymous
They are not synonymous. |
Anonymous
| I am 44 years old, 5'4 and average around 124 pounds. My body fat hovers between 18-21%. I go into fat cutting diet phases for a few weeks if I need to get it down. |
Anonymous
you’re not content and misleading others. Please do your research. See below for a start,n https://weightclinicatfpgreeley.com/2022/04/07/what-is-skinny-fat/ N |
Anonymous
Your “research” is limited. You should probably do some more research on thin- obesity phenotype. It has nothing to do with aging and *loss* of muscle. |
Anonymous
I am 44, 5’6 and average around 118 pounds. I run two 5ks a week, do an average of 2 sessions of body weights (including Pilates and yoga) or 1 session of proper weight training a week. Walk a lot. People generally comment that I seem very fit. BUT My body fat on dexa scan is 34 %  … I am and have always been a skinny fat with very small bone structure, thin ankles, arms, legs, neck etc…but a doughy middle and little muscle mass. I have a VERY hard time keeping muscles when I manage to grow them. And to get rid of the fat I need to dip really low on the scale (like 105).
Saying that to illustrate what skinny fat can look like. I look both thin and curvy/ a bit too soft. My big goal is to up the weight training and next year get into the upper 20s on my dexa scan and stop using the scale as a measure of progress. |
Anonymous
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My experience with body impedance scales that measure "body fat" is that they are only useful for very very wide monitoring. My withings scale in athlete mode measures anywhere from 7-9% and my recent DEXA came back at 14% as a 44M. I also train a metric ton.
So my advice - if you are truly interested - is get some sort of DEXA scan, and then use the body impedance measuring device as a general tracker that is not very useful in advance of another DEXA scan if you are working towards something. |
Anonymous
At OP’s age of early 40’s- aging considerations are relevant to skinny fat I see no justification from this NIH link that the two are different as you believe. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK568563/ |
Anonymous
I have no idea why I am going back and forth with you, but I will stop after this. I said skinny fat is not synonymous with sarcopenia. That means they are not equivalent, and this article you posted confirms that. The article you posted has nothing to do with age-related fat loss. In fact, the article says that even newborns have this phenotype. (Did you catch the PP above who said she has trouble keeping muscle her whole life). The article states that sarcopenic obesity is a term used in the elderly. Perhaps your real objection is that this is something that affects many South Asian and Chinese individuals and this couldn’t be OP’s problem and that therefore, this person we cannot see and know so little about, couldn’t have low muscle mass from the get-go. One, I’d note that people of many races post here and you have literally no idea who you are typing with. Two, if you looked further, you would see that this phenotype is not limited to Asians. I have no idea why you insist that a woman who is lifting weights 3x a week for a few years is suffering with a “problem related to aging with real health issues.” Seems like there are lot of other explanations since OP is in her 40s and lifting, not actually elderly. |
Anonymous
| Sigh. all I’m saying to the OP is that sarcopenia starts in your 40’s. it does not just pop into your life when you’re eligible for Medicare.. I know that from experience. She could look at whether her weight progression and protein intake is high enough. There’s plenty of women at my gym that lift 3x/week but not at a proper weights progression or need to adjust their overall macro intake. I have no idea of why you brought in the Asian slant as the article is inclusive. I’m glad you are choosing not to reply further. |
Anonymous
Exercise will not cut fat. What does your diet look like? |