4lbs of fat is amazing in a week when you've eaten burgers and cheese toasties, and you're already quite thin. I know personal trainers who cardio and weight train every day that can't achieve that. Am extremely impressed.
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4lbs of fat is amazing in a week when you've eaten burgers and cheese toasties, and you're already quite thin. I know personal trainers who cardio and weight train every day that can't achieve that. Am extremely impressed.
It was easy. It not done the heaviest way tho... Cardio / weight training sailing, net calorie intake of around 500-600 calories
Sadly Dabz, they're not even consistently inaccurate. I thought your quoted figures were excessivly high! lolOriginally Posted by Dabz
The only way to get somewhere near consistency, is to have maximum body hydration. This means consuming minimum 2.5 litres of water for at least 3 days prior to weighing. I looked into these and had a long chat with the body composition specialist at our gym to ask which is best to get. Simple answer was don't bother, get calipers as they're the only way of accurate measuring.
For someone your size, any more than 1-1.5lbs of weight loss per week, is either water or catabolic musle loss. And even that definately wouldn't happen when your diet includes burgers and cheese toasties! lol
As a rough guide, healthy fat loss is around 4lbs a week if your extremely overweight, 2lbs if you're about my size, and a few ounces to 1.5lbs if you're already slim (which I think you fit into!)
This is why you see people who don't eat anything, and constantly in the gym looking thin, but with no real body definition. It's becasue the body is breaking down their muscles to feed the body as there is no fat or carb intake left to feed the exercise. There's a few like that where I work who all think they're amazing as they're so skinny, but they're actually really unhealthy and don't look very good at all.
Invest in some good body calipers and throw the scales in the bin! Muscle weighs more than fat anyway (which you know) so why worry about your weight? Just focus on what the mirror tells you, and your clothes!
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I used calipers too...I know a bit about what I'm talking about or I wouldn't bother posting it. Body fat loss this week was accurate as far as the calipers AND scales both gave the same result. Plus measurements with the tape measure.
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Wow! Heavy duty guys!
The only place I would use calipers is on my brakes....
As to measurement, there are two types, relative and absolute. Most scales are accurate in relative measurements, if no in absolute. As weith loss is a relative measurement, you are quite ok Dabz.
However If you wish an absoulte figure I can arrange a calibration check!
We have all kinds of fitness crap in our office from when one or other of the guys has gone through a phase scales, calipers, weights bench and weights, all manner of supplements and shakes...
Can always find a good home for weights (except sand ones) and benches. The rowing club is alwats after them. We kinda wear these things out!!!!!
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