{"id":1212,"date":"2010-07-30T14:48:27","date_gmt":"2010-07-30T21:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.weight-loss-center.net\/weight-loss-blog\/?p=1212"},"modified":"2010-07-30T14:48:27","modified_gmt":"2010-07-30T21:48:27","slug":"body-fat-calculator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.weight-loss-center.net\/weight-loss-blog\/2010\/07\/body-fat-calculator\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dreaded Body Fat Calculator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I signed up for Curves a few years back and one of the first things they did was weigh me and calculate my BMI (body mass index).  I felt strangely violated.  I mean, the last thing someone who wants to lose weight needs is someone telling them exactly just how much fat they really need to lose.  I got over it because they meant well and I didn\u2019t have much choice as I had already paid the fees. However, I remembered it so clearly that to this day I won\u2019t get a personal trainer because I don\u2019t want to go through that indignity again.  I\u2019d much rather do my own calculations than have someone with washboard abs and arms like Michelle Obama measure my waistline.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1214\" style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1214\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1214\" title=\"Body Fat Calculator\" src=\"https:\/\/www.weight-loss-center.net\/weight-loss-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/body-fat-calculator.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.weight-loss-center.net\/weight-loss-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/body-fat-calculator.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.weight-loss-center.net\/weight-loss-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/body-fat-calculator-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1214\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Body fat calculators are a useful, self-assessment tool to see where you are physically at the start of a diet.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>You can find body fat calculators all over the Internet.  A <a title=\"Body Fat Calculator\" href=\"https:\/\/www.weight-loss-center.net\/weight-loss-tools\/body-fat-calculator.html\" target=\"_self\">body fat calculator<\/a> is just another online tool like insurance calculators or health assessments.  It will ask you your gender, your waist measurement and your body weight. More complex body fat calculators may also ask for your neck size and your height.  After putting these in, the body fat calculator will then provide you with an estimate of your body fat percentage.<\/p>\n<p>Body fat calculators are a useful, self-assessment tool to see where you are physically at the start of a diet and where you need to go.  Your body fat calculation isn\u2019t necessarily something that needs to be done by a personal trainer or gym staff.  If you can do it online, I say, \u201cDo it\u201d.  It\u2019s the exact same numbers and will produce the exact same percentages, only without the embarrassment of having someone with a tape measure going over the spots you may be sensitive about.<\/p>\n<p>If you would like to know this prior to starting your diet, then they are fairly easy to find.  Body fat calculators are all over the web.  Weight Loss Center has a few different <a title=\"Weight Loss Tools\" href=\"https:\/\/www.weight-loss-center.net\/Weight-Loss-Tools\/\" target=\"_self\">weight loss tools<\/a> that you can use to measure your progress while dieting.  In addition to the body fat calculator it has a <a title=\"BMI Calculator\" href=\"https:\/\/www.weight-loss-center.net\/weight-loss-tools\/bmi-calculator.html\" target=\"_self\">BMI calculator<\/a>, weight and height conversion calculators, <a title=\"Healthy Weight Calculator\" href=\"https:\/\/www.weight-loss-center.net\/weight-loss-tools\/healthy-weight-estimate.html\" target=\"_self\">healthy weight calculator<\/a>, basal metabolic calculator, ideal weight calculator, and others.  What I liked about the <a title=\"Ideal Body Weight Calculator\" href=\"https:\/\/www.weight-loss-center.net\/womens-health\/breast-cancer.html\" target=\"_self\">ideal body weight calculator<\/a> is the fact that it tells me I should be 142.5 lbs for my height.  That means I\u2019m closer to my ideal weight than I thought I was!  Go me!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Body fat calculators are a useful, self-assessment tool to see where you are physically at the start of a diet and where you need to go. Your body fat calculation isn\u2019t necessarily something that needs to be done by a personal trainer or gym staff. <\/p>\n<p>Read More <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weight-loss-center.net\/weight-loss-blog\/2010\/07\/body-fat-calculator\/\">The Dreaded Body Fat Calculator<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1214,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[689,912,24,913,909,914,1286,1431,825],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weight-loss-center.net\/weight-loss-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weight-loss-center.net\/weight-loss-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weight-loss-center.net\/weight-loss-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weight-loss-center.net\/weight-loss-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weight-loss-center.net\/weight-loss-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1212"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.weight-loss-center.net\/weight-loss-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1216,"href":"https:\/\/www.weight-loss-center.net\/weight-loss-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212\/revisions\/1216"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weight-loss-center.net\/weight-loss-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weight-loss-center.net\/weight-loss-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weight-loss-center.net\/weight-loss-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weight-loss-center.net\/weight-loss-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}