For anybody interested in accurate monitoring of body weight, I highly recommend checking out a Bod Pod near you. You step in this pod, it vacuum seals, and it uses air displacement to measure your body fat percentage (accuracy usually around 0.5% [1]). Afterwards they print out a sheet that has specific measurements of everything: weight, height, body fat %, non-body fat %, etc.
Last I tried, it cost $30 at a local university and took about 30 minutes. Once you know your current body fat % it is much easier to figure exactly how many lbs you need to lose to reach your target %. When going by BMI much of that is guesswork.
Last I tried, it cost $30 at a local university and took about 30 minutes. Once you know your current body fat % it is much easier to figure exactly how many lbs you need to lose to reach your target %. When going by BMI much of that is guesswork.
Locations here: http://www.cosmed.com/en/contact-us/test-site-locator
[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10487380