I finally did it. I've been avoiding it for a while, but I finally did it today. I asked a trainer at the gym to measure my percentage of body fat. I've been stalling because I wasn't sure I wanted to know the answer to the question.

For the past few months, I've been steadily shedding pounds. Not sure how it's been happening as I hadn't stepped foot into the gym for about a month prior to this week and I hadn't altered my eating patterns. Perhaps it's stress related. Anyway, when I weighed myself at the beginning of the week, I was pleasantly surprised at the number. But I knew it was too good to be true. I didn't feel like I had been losing any fat, so my natural conclusion was that the weight loss was due to a decrease in muscle tissue. And getting my percent body fat measured today confirmed that.

The trainer used a bioelectrical impedance scale as opposed to the skinfold method using calipers. He tried to assure me that the scales tend to have a margin of error of about 1-2% and that the caliper method was more accurate. However, doing some research online shows disagreement with that argument. I suppose it could depend on the scale used as well. I assume some are more accurate than others.

Anyway, while I wasn't exactly pleased with today's result, I wasn't THAT terribly disappointed either. I'm in the healthy range, but my personal preference is to get the number down about 2-3%.