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Body fat % loss v weight loss

loiscoles
loiscoles Posts: 39 Member
edited November 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
So over the past 3 weeks my body fat % has gone from 28% to 24% and yet I've only lost 2lbs. How does that work? Have been gaining muscle instead of losing or something (I know a lot of you say gaining muscle whilst losing is impossible)? I can only think I've been eating too much so maintaining and instead gaining muscle :/

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  • Maxematics
    Maxematics Posts: 2,287 Member
    Your method for obtaining body fat is probably inaccurate. I'm going to assume you used a scale with bf%. Even calipers aren't reliable.
  • Sued0nim
    Sued0nim Posts: 17,456 Member
    loiscoles wrote: »
    So over the past 3 weeks my body fat % has gone from 28% to 24% and yet I've only lost 2lbs. How does that work? Have been gaining muscle instead of losing or something (I know a lot of you say gaining muscle whilst losing is impossible)? I can only think I've been eating too much so maintaining and instead gaining muscle :/

    It doesn't

    However you have measured body fat is simply wrong
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