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scooterpie wrote:The Swede, you may be confusing visceral fat with subcutaneous fat (which if what you have there is actually fat, it's subcutaneous). Visceral fat is that which accumulates around and perhaps on internal organs. (For more info: What is Belly Fat?)
You haven't mentioned your body fat percentage thus far--maybe it's not relevant to the discussion. Perhaps you can purchase a fairly inexpensive handheld monitor--I use an Omron. I don't use it often. It isn't the gold standard of BF measurement, but it's consistent for my purposes.
BF measurement by someone who has been trained well in the use of calipers is a good method. More expensive methods are Underwater Weighing and Dual Energy X-ray Absorptiometry (typically used in the US for bone mineral density measurement as well).
There are online calculators that use several body measurements to come up with a go-by as well. I don't know if "go-by" will be lost in translation--it's just something to GO BY and use from time to time to see variations from week-to-week or month-to-month. Here's one: http://www.calculator.net/army-body-fat-calculator.html.
This video may be of interest: Get Rid of the Belly Pooch.
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