Healthy Weight Mesurement
Are you at a good weight? Here are two charts and an explanation that will help you. Then read below as I explain how you can interpret what you read here.
Below 18.5
Underweight – attention required
18.5 to 24.9
Normal – Perfect score!! Good Job!! Stay like you are!!
25.0 to 26.9
You are overweight! Diet and exercise required!
30.0 and above
Obese – Do something before it’s too late!
Notice how bathroom scales don’t tell you the whole story of healthy weight measurement? Here’s what I mean.
You body is made up of fat + muscle. Let’s say before you began exercising…
Your weight was… 164 lbs
Your body fat percentage was … 19%
That means your body is made up of …
Fat 31 pounds (164 x 19%)
Lean muscle 133 (164 – 31, the remainder)
After months of focusing on your diet and exercise…
Your weight was…160 lbs
Your body fat percentage was…15%
That means your body is made up of:
Fat 24 pounds (160 x 15%)
Lean Muscle 136 (160 – 24, the remainder)
From the above example, you went from weighing 164 lbs to 160lbs. Doesn’t sound like much, however notice you lost 7 pounds of FAT (31 – 24). Wow! That’s impressive. Plus FAT is so much BULKIER than lean muscle, so you will look so much trimmer.
Look what else you did: you gained 3 pounds of lean muscle!
This is what gets people discouraged when they step on the bathroom scale. Moreover, muscle weighs more that FAT, so it is possible to workout and not see a change in your WEIGHT!! … when stepping on the regular scale. Why? Because you are losing fat which is LIGHT and gaining muscle which is HEAVIER.
People only see the 4lbs of WEIGHT that they lost, but the real accomplishment is the FAT loss and the MUSCLE gain! You are decreasing your body fat percentage! You are changing your body composition from “a fatty patty” (hamburger) to a body of “lean sirloin”.
So get rid of the bathroom scale or at least put it away for a while. If you are on a diet and exercise program, it’s not telling you the whole story!
Look into a Tanita brand scale. It measures / monitors your body fat percentage.
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