Weird. Just a glitch?

**pheenyx1** · 05-15-2011, 05:14 AM

My diet has been really clean for a little over 2 months. Basically all complex carbs, heavy protien, and low fat. The percentages fluctuate a little day to day, but they are in the range of 40/40/20. My bf has dropped steadily from 16.5 to 14.5 as measured on a hand held electronic bf calculator. I had no cheat days/meals until last night. last night I cheated BIG, and had a pint if icecream and a candybar (not gonna happen again, it made me feel like crap.) But today I wake up and do my measurement and I have gone from 14.5 to 14.1 in 24hrs! That is by far the biggest one day drop in the two months of my diet! WTF! Is that just some sort of glitch?

**Nephets** · 05-15-2011, 09:07 AM

Originally Posted by pheenyx1

My diet has been really clean for a little over 2 months. Basically all complex carbs, heavy protien, and low fat. The percentages fluctuate a little day to day, but they are in the range of 40/40/20. My bf has dropped steadily from 16.5 to 14.5 as measured on a hand held electronic bf calculator. I had no cheat days/meals until last night. last night I cheated BIG, and had a pint if icecream and a candybar (not gonna happen again, it made me feel like crap.) But today I wake up and do my measurement and I have gone from 14.5 to 14.1 in 24hrs! That is by far the biggest one day drop in the two months of my diet! WTF! Is that just some sort of glitch?

Yea, I wouldn't start an ice-cream and candy bar diet fad just yet. I would wait a couple days and re measure. You could be bloated and get a false reading. Who knows. Get back on your diet and keep plugging away.

**LatissimusaurousRex** · 05-15-2011, 09:23 AM

Those just measure your body's ability to conduct electricity. Basically it's giving you a statistical number based on probable fat content because of how much water is in your body v.s. the actual biological makeup of your body. So you can see how these machines are easily inaccurate, were talking plus or minus 5+%. They're more to give you a "general idea" of your BF% instead of a consistent accurate measurement.