Request: Track body fat (Read 823 times)

I'd like to second this request. It would be great to be able to track this directly for use in graphing etc. Thanks for providing such a wonderful service! mike

I think this is one of the requests that needs special handling, as in user definable data fields. I don't want to include this as part of the health info because you're probably using the body fat calculator that came with a scale, which is highly inaccurate. Anyway, it is already on my list of todos but won't be part of the next release. eric

I think all of the regular ways to measure body fat (calipers, water test, ...) aren't particularly accurate. Seems like the only really good way is the same way that nutritionists measure fat content in food -- they incinerate it and measure the resulting gasses. (I'm not volunteering for that.) FWIW, one approach I've found that seems to work is to track pounds of body fat. (Multiply total weight by body fat percentage.) For me, both body weight and body fat percentage can vary quite a bit, even measured consistently w.r.t to time, apparel etc.. I think hydration affects this a lot. (Which, itself depends a lot on what I eat the day before.) Body fat weight, OTOH, seems to track quite consistently. Stephen