Goal Weight vs. Body Fat %

bonitacash08
bonitacash08 Posts: 378 Member
edited January 25 in Health and Weight Loss
All right ladies so here's the deal: it's one or the other. If you're going to lift weights, understand that you're going to weigh more than if you didn't. Don't give yourself a concrete weight you just HAVE to be at because your body already has its own plans.

In reality though, who cares? Your weight isn't displayed on your forehead. It's not flashing across your chest in LED lights. It's between you, your scale, and your higher power.

Be deliriously happy in your smaller waist. Your defined arms. Your sexy legs. You WILL gradually lose weight, but isn't losing fat far more important?

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  • bonitacash08
    bonitacash08 Posts: 378 Member
    :flowerforyou:
  • difabu
    difabu Posts: 143
    Great post!

    Even though I track measurements and body fat%, it's been a struggle to let go of that "scale number".
  • Salt_Sand_Sun
    Salt_Sand_Sun Posts: 415 Member
    <<---- certified Scale *kitten*!! I lift and I have muscles but I will achieve that number on the scale.
  • deksgrl
    deksgrl Posts: 7,237 Member
    Agree.

    And if I'm not looking at the scale very much, then I can concentrate on strength based goals and how I look and feel, and not be hung up on that stupid number that nobody else knows.
  • SweetestLibby
    SweetestLibby Posts: 607 Member
    ...why is it one or the other? Why can't have meet my goal weight AND my goal body fat percentage?...that is assuming your goal weight and body fat percentage are in line with your body type.
  • deksgrl
    deksgrl Posts: 7,237 Member
    ...why is it one or the other? Why can't have meet my goal weight AND my goal body fat percentage?...that is assuming your goal weight and body fat percentage are in line with your body type.

    You can, if your goals are reasonable and obtainable. It will just take longer to hit that goal weight because you have to take a reasonable calorie deficit so that you preserve LBM.
  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 49,077 Member
    In to say what I say to my female clients:

    If you look the way you want, fit the clothes you like and look good in them, and get great compliments on your physique, then does it really matter what the scale says?

    A.C.E. Certified Personal/Group FitnessTrainer
    IDEA Fitness member
    Kickboxing Certified Instructor
    Been in fitness for 30 years and have studied kinesiology and nutrition
  • bcattoes
    bcattoes Posts: 17,299 Member
    Just concentrating on BF% doesn't always work. I'm at a healthy BF% but I'm still too big. While I'm not slave to the scale, my goal is to be thinner. So for now I am concentrating mostly on the tape measure first and BF% second.
  • footiechick82
    footiechick82 Posts: 1,203 Member
    BF is where I'm at.. I achieved my first goal of 17% and now I'm aiming for 15%.

    I currently weigh 133-134lbs. Don't care. I just want to see my %age keep going down!
  • metacognition
    metacognition Posts: 626 Member
    Yes, losing fat is important.

    If I didn't weight train my 98 pounds would look very soft and probably flabby. At the end of the day body composition makes a big difference.

    The bonus of switching to fat loss vs. weight loss is that you can eat more and ignore the scale ! Always a plus in my book.
  • gogojodee
    gogojodee Posts: 1,243 Member
    All right ladies so here's the deal: it's one or the other. If you're going to lift weights, understand that you're going to weigh more than if you didn't. Don't give yourself a concrete weight you just HAVE to be at because your body already has its own plans.

    In reality though, who cares? Your weight isn't displayed on your forehead. It's not flashing across your chest in LED lights. It's between you, your scale, and your higher power.

    Be deliriously happy in your smaller waist. Your defined arms. Your sexy legs. You WILL gradually lose weight, but isn't losing fat far more important?

    QFT
  • sblake204
    sblake204 Posts: 458 Member
    In to say what I say to my female clients:

    If you look the way you want, fit the clothes you like and look good in them, and get great compliments on your physique, then does it really matter what the scale says?

    A.C.E. Certified Personal/Group FitnessTrainer
    IDEA Fitness member
    Kickboxing Certified Instructor
    Been in fitness for 30 years and have studied kinesiology and nutrition

    i too would like the scale to go down, but i will have to agree with your statement above. if the mirror and clothes say you're working it, then work it!!!
  • bonitacash08
    bonitacash08 Posts: 378 Member
    Yay for workin it!
  • fitgal05
    fitgal05 Posts: 149
    I like to weigh myself! I don't have a body fat scale or any way to do that.
  • bonitacash08
    bonitacash08 Posts: 378 Member
    I like to weigh myself! I don't have a body fat scale or any way to do that.

    I don't either. http://www.fat2fitradio.com/tools/ has some pretty neat calculators to help you figure it out with measurements!

    Edited to add:
    I don't think there's anything wrong with weighing yourself. I just think that a lot of people, women in particular, get to a certain point in this process where they have to reevaluate their "goal weight".
  • onedayatatime12
    onedayatatime12 Posts: 577 Member
    I agree with you OP, but I too like some other ladies, am a scale *kitten*, and it's SO hard to let go! >_<

    I want to get toned AND achieve my goal weight! I guess I won't stop trying then :bigsmile:
  • djeffreys10
    djeffreys10 Posts: 2,312 Member
    Yep. One of the smoking hot women on my friends list weighs 160. Looks trim and fit as all get out. With muscle comes weight, but it is oh so sexy.
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