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[quote=Anonymous]I wasn't particularly happy when I found out in my efforts to get more fit that I somehow gained weight.  My diet was pretty much the same and if anything I tried to restrict my diet and liquid intake.  At one point where it almost got unhealthy and I had to go to the doctor about it.

It's something that I've always noticed that would happen with my body, where my weight would increase when I do cardio.

But after looking into it several times, it isn't necessarily out of the ordinary to gain weight from cardio.  Where there are posts about weight gain being due to gain in muscle, body repairing itself, and/or the body increasing glycogen stores or something like that.

And tracking hip to waist ratio, I can see that my measurements haven't really changed even then though I gained weight.  My clothes fit the same and my hip and waist both measure about the same.

The three more easily available ways to measure body fat I know of are:
-BMI-I used to kind of discount this because when I first looked at it, the normal/recommended range was the range where people used to body shame me and call me skin and bones. Nowadays I don't think it's too bad of a target to go for.  But seriously, screw the people that used to give other people body image issues

-Hip to Waist ratio-just started tracking this

-skin calipers-some parts/methods seem kind of complicated where you need to get measurements in harder to reach areas, like along your back

I used to know someone who talked about getting the body fat percentage by going some place that measures it by submerging you in water.  But this doesn't sound like it's easily available and why I didn't include it in the three methods above.[/quote]

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