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Fat pounds vs. other pounds
I just did some math and figured out that of the 43 pounds I've lost, about
70% of those pounds were fat. I assume the other 30% have been either water or muscle, but I don't know how to find out how much of each. I have been doing moderate strength training at Curves, so I hope I've helped minimize muscle loss to some degree. Anyway, is this 70% good, or should it be higher? -- Michelle Levin http://www.mindspring.com/~lunachick I have only 3 flaws. My first flaw is thinking that I only have 3 flaws. |
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Luna wrote:
I just did some math and figured out that of the 43 pounds I've lost, about 70% of those pounds were fat. I assume the other 30% have been either water or muscle, but I don't know how to find out how much of each. I have been doing moderate strength training at Curves, so I hope I've helped minimize muscle loss to some degree. Anyway, is this 70% good, or should it be higher? I don't believe there is any way a layman can estimate this really. You can only guess and never know. I've had a number of half pound increases in a single day... is that water weight, is that lean muscle building, just fat bouncing back, excess waste in colon. Nearly impossible to determine without professional/scientific methods. I think for scientific studies they submerse you in water to measure volume and do some calculation from weight vs body volume. DiGiTAL_ViNYL (no email) |
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Luna writes: I just did some math and figured out that of the 43 pounds I've lost, about 70% of those pounds were fat. I assume the other 30% have been either water or muscle, but I don't know how to find out how much of each. I've never seen anything that figures it out. As long as you're not losing strength, I wouldn't worry about it. I have been doing moderate strength training at Curves, so I hope I've helped minimize muscle loss to some degree. That seems to be accepted, that weight training helps spare muscle loss. Sufficient protein intake does also. Anyway, is this 70% good, or should it be higher? The trick to body building is to at least keep it above 50% each way - lose more fat than muscle, gain more muscle than fat. So yeah, 70% is good. Remember, there's LBM associated with adipose tissue too, so it's not just muscle. |
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I know I lost muscle. I will be using a caliper to pinch my skin in certain
places to estimate my body fat %. Using a Jackson & Pollack method. It is cheap and pretty accurate. Enjoy, Curt "Luna" wrote in message ... I just did some math and figured out that of the 43 pounds I've lost, about 70% of those pounds were fat. I assume the other 30% have been either water or muscle, but I don't know how to find out how much of each. I have been doing moderate strength training at Curves, so I hope I've helped minimize muscle loss to some degree. Anyway, is this 70% good, or should it be higher? -- Michelle Levin http://www.mindspring.com/~lunachick I have only 3 flaws. My first flaw is thinking that I only have 3 flaws. |
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I don't think I've lose any muscle, in fact, I'd bet good money that I have
gained muscle mass since I started weight training. I think the fat measurment techniques are too inaccurate for someone who is not very skilled. curt wrote: :: I know I lost muscle. I will be using a caliper to pinch my skin in :: certain places to estimate my body fat %. Using a Jackson & Pollack :: method. It is cheap and pretty accurate. :: :: Enjoy, :: Curt :: :: "Luna" wrote in message :: ... ::: I just did some math and figured out that of the 43 pounds I've ::: lost, about 70% of those pounds were fat. I assume the other 30% ::: have been either water or muscle, but I don't know how to find out ::: how much of each. I have been doing moderate strength training at ::: Curves, so I hope I've helped minimize muscle loss to some degree. ::: Anyway, is this 70% good, or should it be higher? ::: ::: -- ::: Michelle Levin ::: http://www.mindspring.com/~lunachick ::: ::: I have only 3 flaws. My first flaw is thinking that I only have 3 ::: flaws. |
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Yes, for someone that isn't very skilled you may be right. That isn't me
however. I am skilled. I lost some muscle from running. That is always a problem for runners. I am lifiting now and it is helping. Curt "Roger Zoul" wrote in message ... I don't think I've lose any muscle, in fact, I'd bet good money that I have gained muscle mass since I started weight training. I think the fat measurment techniques are too inaccurate for someone who is not very skilled. curt wrote: :: I know I lost muscle. I will be using a caliper to pinch my skin in :: certain places to estimate my body fat %. Using a Jackson & Pollack :: method. It is cheap and pretty accurate. :: :: Enjoy, :: Curt :: :: "Luna" wrote in message :: ... ::: I just did some math and figured out that of the 43 pounds I've ::: lost, about 70% of those pounds were fat. I assume the other 30% ::: have been either water or muscle, but I don't know how to find out ::: how much of each. I have been doing moderate strength training at ::: Curves, so I hope I've helped minimize muscle loss to some degree. ::: Anyway, is this 70% good, or should it be higher? ::: ::: -- ::: Michelle Levin ::: http://www.mindspring.com/~lunachick ::: ::: I have only 3 flaws. My first flaw is thinking that I only have 3 ::: flaws. |
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curt wrote:
:: I lost some muscle from running. That is always a problem for :: runners. I am lifiting now and it is helping. Yep....running will do that to ya! :: :: Curt :: :: :: "Roger Zoul" wrote in message :: ... ::: I don't think I've lose any muscle, in fact, I'd bet good money ::: that I have gained muscle mass since I started weight training. I ::: think the fat measurment techniques are too inaccurate for someone ::: who is not very skilled. ::: ::: curt wrote: ::::: I know I lost muscle. I will be using a caliper to pinch my skin ::::: in certain places to estimate my body fat %. Using a Jackson & ::::: Pollack method. It is cheap and pretty accurate. ::::: ::::: Enjoy, ::::: Curt ::::: ::::: "Luna" wrote in message ::::: ... :::::: I just did some math and figured out that of the 43 pounds I've :::::: lost, about 70% of those pounds were fat. I assume the other :::::: 30% have been either water or muscle, but I don't know how to :::::: find out how much of each. I have been doing moderate strength :::::: training at Curves, so I hope I've helped minimize muscle loss :::::: to some degree. Anyway, is this 70% good, or should it be higher? :::::: :::::: -- :::::: Michelle Levin :::::: http://www.mindspring.com/~lunachick :::::: :::::: I have only 3 flaws. My first flaw is thinking that I only have :::::: 3 flaws. |
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For every pound of body fat, there is 2 and 1/4 pounds of metabolic
water so when you loose a pound of fat, you also lose 2 and 1/4 pounds of water, total 3 and 1/4 pounds . Luna wrote: I just did some math and figured out that of the 43 pounds I've lost, about 70% of those pounds were fat. I assume the other 30% have been either water or muscle, but I don't know how to find out how much of each. I have been doing moderate strength training at Curves, so I hope I've helped minimize muscle loss to some degree. Anyway, is this 70% good, or should it be higher? |
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Interesting. Where did you learn this? Can you point me to any websites
that talk about stuff like that? In article , Kabah Wabah wrote: For every pound of body fat, there is 2 and 1/4 pounds of metabolic water so when you loose a pound of fat, you also lose 2 and 1/4 pounds of water, total 3 and 1/4 pounds . Luna wrote: I just did some math and figured out that of the 43 pounds I've lost, about 70% of those pounds were fat. I assume the other 30% have been either water or muscle, but I don't know how to find out how much of each. I have been doing moderate strength training at Curves, so I hope I've helped minimize muscle loss to some degree. Anyway, is this 70% good, or should it be higher? -- Michelle Levin http://www.mindspring.com/~lunachick I have only 3 flaws. My first flaw is thinking that I only have 3 flaws. |
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Fat pounds vs. other pounds
Luna wrote:
I just did some math and figured out that of the 43 pounds I've lost, about 70% of those pounds were fat. I assume the other 30% have been either water or muscle, but I don't know how to find out how much of each. I have been doing moderate strength training at Curves, so I hope I've helped minimize muscle loss to some degree. Anyway, is this 70% good, or should it be higher? i don't think it matters. you've lost 43 of them, and that's great. keep working out and don't worry too much about percentages as long as you feel good. |
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