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How long did it take you to drop 5%, 10% fat?

onikonor
onikonor Posts: 473 Member
edited December 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
I want to lose about 5-10% fat. For those of you who have achieved this, how long did it take? I'm also curious to know how much 5-10% of fat actually weighs (for someone who's 5'5)!

If you have before and after pictures that would be amazing :D

Thanks.

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  • McLifterPants
    McLifterPants Posts: 457 Member
    I dropped approximately 10% body fat percentage (I say approximately because I'm not sure what I started at, I just have an estimate based on my measurements) over about 6 months. I am 5'7". Hope that helps :)
  • ShannonMpls
    ShannonMpls Posts: 1,936 Member
    My body fat percentage goes down about 1% per month. I do about three hours of strength and two hours of cardio per week. It doesn't really correlate with scale weight for me.
  • rose313
    rose313 Posts: 1,146 Member
    It's hard for me to tell how much I lost, some calculators say 4%, some calculators say 1%, but if I take an average I lost 2-3% in the four months since I started strength training. It was the equivalent of about 7 pounds for me. I feel like I lost more BF than 2-3% because I'm not so flabby anymore and my pants fit so much better, but with these calculators online you never really know. At some point I'll buy some calipers and measure for myself.
  • DeniseB0711
    DeniseB0711 Posts: 294 Member
    I lost 7% of my body fat in the first 30 days of P90X.
  • onikonor
    onikonor Posts: 473 Member
    I lost 7% of my body fat in the first 30 days of P90X.

    Nice work!
  • onikonor
    onikonor Posts: 473 Member
    I dropped approximately 10% body fat percentage (I say approximately because I'm not sure what I started at, I just have an estimate based on my measurements) over about 6 months. I am 5'7". Hope that helps :)

    I'm just looking for a guideline anyway, since I'm going off an estimate also. What % are you at now?
  • McLifterPants
    McLifterPants Posts: 457 Member
    I dropped approximately 10% body fat percentage (I say approximately because I'm not sure what I started at, I just have an estimate based on my measurements) over about 6 months. I am 5'7". Hope that helps :)

    I'm just looking for a guideline anyway, since I'm going off an estimate also. What % are you at now?

    Hovering around 22%, still trying to get down to 20% but damned if those last few lbs don't come off slowly! Haha
  • blonde71
    blonde71 Posts: 955 Member
    It took me about 8 months to drop 6% body fat. Slowly but surely, the percentage went down.
  • onikonor
    onikonor Posts: 473 Member
    Thanks for all your help guys.
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