Have I got 20lbs to lose? Weight loss targets
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It was our monthly find-out-more meeting last night.
As, usual, the upcoming programme sold out.
For the 45th month in a row.
####### If you listen to some of our local competitors (not advisable), they comment about how they “don’t have to take new people on every month like that”. Despite never once getting anywhere close to the number of members they set out to get ######
One question we get a lot at the meeting (and from existing members) is “Have I got 20lbs to lose?”
Now it doesn’t really matter either way as we have the ‘Beach Body challenge’ for those that have less than 20lbs.
And the process is the same either way.
So unless someone is already as lean as they’d like to be (not usually) when they start, we have something they can do to get a result for free.
And if they are as lean as they’d like to be, they can still get fitter, healthier and so on with us – just there isn’t that visible result that makes it a win-win.
But, either way, it’s relatively easy to find it you have 20lbs to lose.
From you body fat percentage.
If you’re a member, we, of course, can give you a very accurate reading for that with our In-Body analysis.
If you’re not, there are calculators (try www.active.com/fitness/calculators/bodyfat) that will give you a rough figure not too far from the truth.
Take you current weight in pounds and times it by your body fat percentage to get your current ‘fat mass’ in pounds.
So, if you’re 200lbs and 30% body fat, then your fat mass is 60lbs.
And your lean mass is the difference between total weight and fat mass.
140lbs in this case.
A lean body fat for a man is 10% and for a women around 16%.
You don’t “have” to get to those numbers by any stretch of the imagination.
Your body, do with it what you wish.
But at percentages above that, there is body fat you could lose if you so wished.
Take your lean mass and divide by 0.9 if you’re a man, 0.84 for a woman.
So that 140lbs becomes 156lbs for a man, 167lbs for a woman (rounded up).
That is the weight your would be at 10 or 16% assuming you maintained your lean mass.
If the difference between current weight and this weight is more than 20lbs (44 / 33 in this case) then there is 20lbs of fat that can be lost.
Again, not saying you have to or “should”.
But there is 20lbs to lose.
You could do the same with the 17% for men and 23% for women that’s a recommended target for health from the NHS guidelines (divide by 0.83 or 0.77 respectively) if you wanted to.
And I know they’ll probably be changes to lean mass along the way (possibly less retained water, maybe increase in muscle and / or bone density).
But, you get the idea.
Not sure if you could lose 20lbs?
There’s your calculation.
Current weight x body fat percentage = fat mass.
Weight – fat mass = lean mass.
Lean mass ÷ 0.9 / 0.84 or 0.83 / 0.77 = ‘target weight’
Current weight – target weight = weight you could lose.
Boom!
Much love,
Jon ‘Nearly removed holiday 4%’ Hall and Matt ‘Bad scent’ Nicholson
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