Body Fat Mass Loss

This topic was created for the Body Fat Mass Loss challenge.

This a Body Fat Loss challenge, not a weight loss challenge.

You must be able to know your own body fat percentage, and use it to calculate the total mass of your body fat.

(Your total weight * Your body fat percentage) / 100 = Your total body fat mass.

This is a 12 week challenge, starting from 1st December 2009.

Gyminee will be adding body fat percentage tracking for challenges. Meanwhile, we could track it manually and continue with your challenge. Your request to delete the challenge may have scared off other participants.

I just signed up for another body fat loss challenge that started months ago and will end in another month. Not counting on winning but figured I could use the incentive.

Your challenge ends in 12 weeks which is more reasonable.

Doo, you are right. There is nothing to lose, so I will continue. I need that motivation.

This doesn’t actually work, any weight submitted will directly change your current weight on the body tracker.

But I know a different way to keep this challenge going. By submitting your body fat mass here as a comment. This doesn’t work if you want to stay private. The goal of the challenge is not who loses the most amount of body fat, rather the largest percentage lost of body fat in 12 weeks.

I will write up more one this later

Body fat reporting is tricky because you are basing it upon % body fat X weight and weight fluctuates due to water, food, etc. Nevermind that measuring bodyfat has accuracy issues and is affected by water retention but it should be more stable. Maybe the measurement should be % change in % bodyfat? Anyway, no need to overcomplicate.

I started the challenge with a bodyweight of 191lb and 19.3% bodyfat which is 36.9lb fat. I am 190.4lb today (Dec.3) which gives me 2.46% decrease in weight. I will check fat tomorrow. Not likely to measure such small changes with calipers so daily measurement is not all that helpful.

I am lifting weights and eating lots of protein and burning calories so my weight loss should be mostly fat.

I had a problem accessing this challenge for several weeks. Unfortunately, I have virtually the same bodyfat percentage now as when this started. However, I am down from a high of about 21% at beginning of the year. I see that on Dec. 3 I weighed 190.4 and now weigh 192 so that means I at least added about 1-1/2lb of lean body mass.