Body fat % - how long to go from 30% to 15%

How long do you think it would take to get from 30% body fat to 15% body fat, assuming I have a proper diet and exercise routine?

Have any males here gone from about 30% body fat to 15% body fat or less?

I have had clients do this - it won't take long... you are male, so that's one advantage for weight loss, it's quicker.

Depending on your current body weight and given proper diet and exercise 30%-15% can be done in 12-16 weeks typically. Remember it gets exponentially harder to lose body fat as you drop down... so goin from 30 to 25 will be easy, but going from 20 to 15 will be tough... going below 15 takes some serious discipline that is not typically exhibited by most.

i dunno like 5

Nobody can tell you for sure because it depends on your dedication to nutrition and exercise and genetics.

If you have decent genetics and stick to a good program you can certainly do that in 6 months ore so.

For the record, I went from 45% to 28% in about a year, looking to go from 28% to 15% over the course of this year.

Probably like after senior year.

The biggest factor in your favor is your age. As a twenty year old male, you can build muscle and burn fat at about the fastest rate you'll ever be able to. If you work hard you should be able to hit the earlier side of the estimates you get, but everybody is different so estimates are still only estimates.

Once you get in your late 20's and beyond, the rewards are still there, but they do take longer as you get older.

Cheers. Well I did quite a bit of walking and always ate back the cals. It felt like i was eating more even though the net was the same result. So I might have burnt 400 cals worth in a day and then ate 1600 that particular day to compensate. Rather than walking miles, I usually did a shorter distance but at a quicker pace. I also increased my overall NEAT exercise by doing simple things like walking to the train station for work rather than driving and taking the stairs instead of lifts.

Its usually recommended to have a net goal of your TDEE-20% over a longer period. I did it on 1200 cals as I'm impatience but it meant that much more muscle was lost along with the fat (which isn't normally what anyone wants)

I don't have a gym membership but have a exercise mat at home so I did and still do crunches, push-ups as well as flutter kicks, reverse crunches, bicycle crunches and oblique side crunches. Its really more than needed as it doesn't take that much to get them tight. Its never to early to start doing the mid section exercise but don't get disheartened if you can't see any abs start to appear until ~13%. They'll be there but underneath the fat layer.

Ill probably be investing in a set of weights soon, I haven't done any lifting for 10 years

A lot of people use exercise as a way of losing, but I'd say its 95% about sticking to your deficit. Exercise is really just for looking good. Its all really about willpower, and not restricting yourself on what you eat. Everything in moderation is key to staying sane and making it a lifestyle change rather than a diet.

Losing weight isn't hard, it doesnt mean you have to eat super healthly, its essentially just eating less and having one donut as a treat rather than three. The hardest part is staying focused.

My personal goal was having a six pack rather than a beer belly before I hit 30 I can echo the previous poster by saying it gets harder the older you get, or at least it feels that way!