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Why Your Bathroom Scale Is Sabotaging Your Fat Loss…

By Rob Poulos On September 26, 2007 No Comments

The most important measurement to watch in determining whether you’re burning fat, or just losing water or lean body mass weight is that of your relative body fat percentage.  Period.

It ain’t the regular old scale… which is most likely sabotaging your real chance at the body you desire…

If you don’t get a fairly accurate measurement of your body fat percentage, all sorts of mental guessing games can occur, leading to more frustration about your progress.

In the past, if you wanted to get a good measure of your body fat percentage, you needed to undergo underwater (hydrostatic) weighing.  (This is still the best method for determining your body fat percentage, but the most difficult to get done).

Or you could get one of those skin fold calipers and pinch your body all over the place to get your relative body fat percentage..

There are also some simple mathematical formulas you can use to

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