Re: Proportion of Weight Lost that is Fat.

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I think fat loss does not equal weight loss.

If you exercise and don't restrict calories, you can decrease BF without losing weight, in fact you might gain weight.

And if you just lower intake and lose 10#, most is water. BF% might go up.

I could not correlate the change in waist/neck from 234# down to 175# with the change in BF%. The change in BF% was about 1.5% per inch, while the weight change was about 3# per inch. I don't think a lot was muscle mass or bone mass, either. But I also don't think the muscle mass lost was liner. The closer to thin I got the more muscle I began to lose because less girth was loseable. There's visceral fat you can lose quickly and other fat depots you don't lose so quick.

Regards.

----- Original Message -----

From: Rodney

Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 5:31 PM

Subject: [ ] Proportion of Weight Lost that is Fat.

Hi folks:Actually one can work out approximately what the numbers must be. Take someone who, for sake of example, weighs 170 lbs and has a BF of 20%.If their 6% BF weight turns out to be 140 lbs, then of the weight they lost 85.3% will have been fat.If their 6% BF weight turns out to be 130 lbs, then of the weight they lost 65.5% will have been fat.If their 6% BF weight turns out to be 120 lbs, then of the weight they lost 53.6% will have been fat.The 80% and 60% fat proportion numbers I mentioned earlier, may help put the above into perspective.Rodney.