Body Composition Decoding?

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Danniross
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Body Composition Decoding?

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First off, name's Danni, & I'm new to the forum, so be nice! :D

Well, I work at an aesthetics and wellness center here in philadelphia and they gave me a free Body Composition Update.
To untrained eyes, these seem to be scary numbers, but the doctor is away on vacation for maybe two weeks and I'm far too impulsive to wait that long.
Hopefully someone on this forum can provide some insight.

I know this is a lot of information but I don't really know where else to ask. Any help would be greatly appreciated. real question is how much of that water weight would I actually be able to shed if I started drinking the recommended intake of water daily and tried to avoid carbs? I'm trying to tone out body in the long run.
Thanks in advance!

HEIGHT - 5' 7.0"
ELECTRICAL RESISTANCE: 700
GENDER: FEMALE ( O:)
AGE: 20

(Here's the scary bits)
TOTAL WEIGHT: 125.5 LBS
FAT WEIGHT: 21.5 LBS
FAT PERCENTAGE: 17.2
WATER WEIGHT: 70.5 LBS
WATER PERCENTAGE: 56.%
PREDICTED MUSCLE MASS: 33.5 LBS
RESTING METABOLISM: 1419 CAL/DAY

BODY FAT DISPLACEMENT:
TORSO - 13.4 LBS 19.6%
LEFT LEG - 2.6 LBS 12.9%
RIGHT LEG - 2.6 LBS 12.0%
LEFT ARM 1.3 LBS 19.2%
RIGHT ARM 1.3 LBS 18.7%
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Re: Body Composition Decoding?

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I'm confused by the body fat displacement figures. Both Legs have the same weight of fat, but different percentages as do the Arms, which to me makes no sense. If you have two limbs with identical fat weight on them, they should make up an identical proportion of total fat, not similar but congruent.

Your Arms are 0.5% different and the Legs 0.9% different. The only explanation for this is possibly a slightly higher amount of muscle in one Leg compared to the other and one Arm compared to the other, but with both Legs have equal dimension and both Arms, so the fat and muscle on tghe Arms and the Fat and muscle on the Legs are contained in exacting dimensions relative to which two limbs you're comparing, if that makes sense.

Imagine having two same sized containers with water and pebbles in, but one container has another 5 or 6 pebbles in it, but both are full to the exact milimetre, you get the idea :wink:

That's what I can only conclude about the differing fat percentages, when comparing leg for leg and arm for arm.

Also your combined Fat weight on the breakdown is 0.3lbs less compared to the initial stated total, but the percentages on breakdown add up to 82.4%, so the unnaccounted for 0.3 lbs difference, between the total amount and the cumulative total of the broken down figures, is essentially making up 17.6% of total fat it would seem, which appears impossible, unless I'm missing something with that one.

In terms of Leg versus Arm fat, the Legs have more space to store fat, so logically you could have more Fat on the Legs, in weight terms, but that amount could still potentially represent a smaller percentage of total, when compared to the fat weight on the arms and their respective percentages.

The totals at the top seem in order, fat and water weight and percetnags represented as part of the total weight.

Not entirely sure about electrical resistance, but most of that looks okay, except for those fat breakdowns and percentages, because I can't workout how 0.3 missing lbs of weight can make uop 17.6% of total fat, unless I'm massing something more complex or blindingly obvious.
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