KG, the method used by my health care provider is called near infrared interactance. I think the results are somewhere between the "dunk tank" method (said to be the gold standard) and skin fold calipers in accuracy. I'm not really counting on it being all that accurate. I just wanted a baseline, so I'd know if I made any progress six months from now.

The technician fed the data I gave her regarding height, weight, and exercise frequency, time and intensity into the machine. Then a wand was placed on the bicep of my dominant arm which sends infrared light into the muscle. I haven't taken the time to research how this works. But the numbers I got back were:

Weight - 134 lbs
Height - 61"
Body fat - 24.4%
Fat weight - 33 lbs
Fat-free weight - 101 lbs

I'm just going to keep doing what I'm doing regarding eating as well as I can and exercising regularly through the winter and not think too much about these figures. I'd like to get down to 120 at some point. From a cycling standpoint, I think that would be a good weight for me based on my build. To do that, I'd probably have to lose a lot of fat while gaining more muscle.

Ultimately, the tape measure will tell me more than the number on the scale. At my age - 55 - post menopause, with a sedentary job and long commute, I'm not sure what is possible. I'm trying to look at this as a science project. I've never consciously tried to lose a substantial amount of weight before. I've only been cycling for five years. I know I weigh more now than I did five years ago, but I know that extra weight is muscle I never had before cycling. Whether I can carve off unwanted fat remains to be seen.

Sorry to ramble. I pobably didn't even answer your questions . You might try finding a place that uses a different method of calculating body comp and compare those to the figures you have with the calipers. But I wouldn't stress too much about it. You lost a good sum of weight and have kept it off. That's something to crow about.