Choosing The Right Target Weight

     So you have determined you really need to lose fat but intelligently you have thrown out the image of your face on top of Cindy Crawford's body with your old size to jeans. Where do you go from here? According to obesity researchers John P. Foreyt, Ph, D., a goal weight is very different than an ideal weight. The two expert's who wrote the program living without dieting, see ideal weight as unreal which corresponds to the socially acceptable weight in society obsessed with thinness. Foreyt and Good rick believe that a number on the scale is less important than being healthy and feeling well physically and mentally.

Incidentally one of the researcher's suggestions for setting a realistic goal weight is that your goal weight is that your goal weight should be no lowest weight you have been able to maintain for at least a year since you were 21 years old.

The importance of body composition:

Many obesity experts believe you're probably better of focusing your attention on improving your body composition rather than on improving the numbers on the scale. There are many reasons for this:

Muscle weights more than fat and scale cannot reflect this. In other words when you have a high proportion of muscle to fat, you may weight more but you will probably also look better and be healthier than when you healthier than when you weighed less.

Fat takes up five times more space than muscle per unit of weight. So the higher the proportion of the fat you have to muscle, the larger you will be.

The more muscle mass you have the more calories you burn, even when your body is at rest. That's because fat free body mass is the prime determinant of the determinant of the metabolism building muscle may turn you in to a lean, mean, fat burning machine. Your rate of metabolism will increase along with your muscles. On the other hand if you lose weight without building muscle, you will lose learn muscle, you will lose lean muscle tissue along with the fat leaving your rate of metabolism depressed and making you more likely to gain the weight back.

Most people agree that a sleek, muscular from is more attractive than a thin flabby one. If you focus just on losing weight without building muscle, the latter is what you are likely to end up with. Unfortunately, muscle mass is more difficult to measure than body weight. There are three main way's to done:

Hydrostatic weighting, which is done by trained personal at some health clubs. This is thought to be the most accurate process of body fat evaluating.

Skin fold-caliper testing. Which relies on device that pinches and measure's the amount of fat directly below the skin. This method is most accurate when conducted by trained personnel.

Bioelectric impedance analysis, which uses a device that estimate the complete amount of water in the body and from there, gives an estimate of the percentage of body fat. Of the three methods, this is thought to be the least precise.

A good amount of body fat is between 8 and 15 percent for men and between 15 and 22 percent for women. Above 24 percent for men and above 33 percent for women is considered overly fat.

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