Body Fat Increasing Fluxuation

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Hi All,

Maybe someone can give some guidance regarding the following:

I am in the begining stages of acheiving a CRON lifestyle. I started

making changes to my diet at the begining of this year. Starting to

eat more nutrionilly dense foods and less calories. To monitor this

progress I've purchased and used daily the Tanita scale. What I see

is happening is that my weight is decresing but my body fat % is

increasing. This concerns me, but however the change is not that

great. I am wondering if the Body Fat % can fluxate just like body

weight (ie, becuase of water retention, food being digested, etc)?

The other question:

I am overweight. 5ft 9in, 205 lbs. My set point weight is 165 lbs.

I plan to lose 4lbs / month till I reach my set point and then pull

it back to 2 lbs / month until I reach my CR level. When I am losing

the weight to my set point, how do I make sure that I am losing

mostly Fat and not muscle? If I do see a trend with the Tanita

monitor of losing muscle, what do I do (Diet wise) to make sure my

body burns Fat and not muscle in my CR state?

If anybody can provide insight to these questions, I would be very

apreciative.

Bob Heinemann

Heinemann@...