Body fat loss

JayZ1488

If I lose a pound a week will I lose body fat?

I’m 33, 220 pounds and am allowed 2200 calories a day.

I usually eat about 2000-2100 and exercise 4-6 times a week from Zumba, yoga, cardio and weights.

I’m sticking to my calories and staying under and so far have lost about 15 pounds in 3 months!

I’m currently 25% body fat at 220, my goal is 190. If I lose a pound a week, how much body fat am I losing?

I’d like to be about 15%

AnnPT77

JayZ1488 wrote: »

If I lose a pound a week will I lose body fat?

I’m 33, 220 pounds and am allowed 2200 calories a day.

I usually eat about 2000-2100 and exercise 4-6 times a week from Zumba, yoga, cardio and weights.

I’m sticking to my calories and staying under and so far have lost about 15 pounds in 3 months!

I’m currently 25% body fat at 220, my goal is 190. If I lose a pound a week, how much body fat am I losing?

I’d like to be about 15%

It's not really a thing you can math out theoretically, if you ask me. If you're losing weight, and not doing it super fast, and you're not afflicted with some unusual health/metabolic condition (you'd know), then you're losing mostly fat.

It's normal to lose a bit of what's considered lean tissue alongside fat loss, but that's normal and even kind of desirable. Imagine what it would be like to lose (say) from morbidly obese to a healthy body weight, but keep the same blood volume one had when morbidly obese. Not good! That's an extreme example, but the concept applies: There are non-fat parts that aren't essential to a lighter body.

Since you're staying active, and especially since challenging your muscles to hold onto mass via weight training, it's very likely that the pounds you're losing are mostly fat. Might be a good idea to taper to half a pound a week for the last 10 pounds or so, but that's partly conservativism about performance/body composition, partly just creating a smooth off-ramp to maintenance behaviorally.

You may get answers from people based on what their BIA scale says about body fat. The range of error from those isn't likely narrow enough to say much that's sensible about what's happening at a pound a week.

ninerbuff

This varies from person to person. Genetics, age, activity, how in tune your hormones are, rest and recovery, nutrition, etc.
Your best bet is to monitor how you lose base on pictures, how definition is showing and clothing fit.

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