What body fat percentage do you find attractive?

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  • jwdieter
    jwdieter Posts: 2,582 Member
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    To answer the OP, I find the women in the pictures from 10-30% attractive.

    Edit: In this post, http://www.leighpeele.com/body-fat-pictures-and-percentages I find 11-20% attractive.
  • Sourdiesel79
    Sourdiesel79 Posts: 33 Member
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    Men 25%, women 35% - which means I have a ****ing big hill to climb! Ah well better get started!
  • MelisMusing
    MelisMusing Posts: 421 Member
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    Men - 15%
    Women - 30%
  • tworthen79
    tworthen79 Posts: 1,173 Member
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    Men 25% I love a little extra fluff.
    Women 30% ....funny I'm supposedly 27% and my stomach looks nothing like that!!
  • zyxst
    zyxst Posts: 9,134 Member
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    For the females, none of them.

    For the males, not the first 2,
  • SummerRain43
    SummerRain43 Posts: 358
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    I'm attracted to men in the 10-15% range.....

    I know the OP said not to include what we want for ourselves but the pictures of the women were quite inspiring for me...I would love to be in the 15-17% range but would settle for the lower 20-22%.....that's going to be a long way down the road.....lol
  • SemperAnticus1643
    SemperAnticus1643 Posts: 703 Member
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    I like the 10-20% range on men.
    For myself, I would prefer to be in the 15-23%
  • brainzap
    brainzap Posts: 145 Member
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    Men: 8%-12% (tall, skinny, and ripped is what I like)
    Women: 15%-25% (women can still look attractive to me with some body fat)
  • joeyzuraski
    joeyzuraski Posts: 47 Member
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    The average healthy individual is between 8% and 15% (women 15% to 25%) according to my Withings chart, but they also need to tone up with weights and exercise to look better.
  • ohheyyitsrenee
    ohheyyitsrenee Posts: 111 Member
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    I guess it depends on the person, and their body type. I'm a very small girl and i'm at 8.9% body fat i'm not extremely ripped or anything but I have decent abs and i like it on me but others may not.

    I think the ideal for women is 15-17% and for men 10-12%
  • MyRummyHens
    MyRummyHens Posts: 141 Member
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    Men 10-15%
    Women 15-17%, 20-22% can look fab if there is underlying muscle to go with that and not the 'skinny fat' look.

    These are my "most attractive", with the possible exceptions of 3-4% male (I personally don't dig veins) and either sex over 35% I think people with the right shape can rock most %'s.
  • amyhoss
    amyhoss Posts: 414 Member
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    I like 15% in men
  • tgabmac
    tgabmac Posts: 46 Member
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    Men- 12-15%
    Women- 22-25%
  • Zaftique
    Zaftique Posts: 599 Member
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    Men: 15-30%
    Women: 30-40%

    I like some squish to my lovers. ;)
  • KseRz
    KseRz Posts: 980 Member
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    Bodyfat has less of a direct impact on perceived attractiveness.

    Men, on average, tend to be attracted to women who are shorter than they are, have a youthful appearance, and exhibit features such as a symmetrical face, full breasts, full lips, and a low waist-hip ratio.

    http://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2004/jan/17/weekend7.weekend2 (<-- This one is definitely a TLDR link)

    http://www.staff.ncl.ac.uk/daniel.nettle/procroysoc.pdf


    Its no coincidence that men and women are strongly attracted to one another within a given hip to waist ratio as the hip to waist ratio strongly correlates with general overall health and fertility. Women within the 0.7 range have optimal levels of estrogen and are less susceptible to major diseases such as diabetes, cardiovascular disorders and ovarian cancers. Men with WHRs around 0.9, similarly, have been shown to be more healthy and fertile with less prostate cancer and testicular cancer.

    http://faculty.bennington.edu/~sherman/sex/whr-singh2002.pdf

    http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~hbe-lab/acrobatfiles/profilewhr.pdf
  • FitMe758
    FitMe758 Posts: 177 Member
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    On men, I'd say 10-25%. On women, 15-30%.

    same.
  • ItsCasey
    ItsCasey Posts: 4,022 Member
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    I believe appearance is a consequence of fitness. People who worry about coming "too fit" because of how it is going to make them look are really unattractive to me. Someone who doesn't want me to be as fit as I want to be because of how it will make me look is similarly unattractive to me.
  • Technolero
    Technolero Posts: 90
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    I used to be 13-15% and I really liked it. I really noticed the definition change at 15%. So that's what I like for guys. For women, based upon the pictures at http://www.builtlean.com/2012/09/24/body-fat-percentage-men-women/, 15-30% is very attractive, but 15-22% is particularly smokin'.

    At least for me though, my expectations for women change with a woman's age and it's hard to explain. I expect an 18-25 year old woman who eats healthy and works out to be able to be 15-25%, I guess because I see many women daily that do look like that. On the other hand, I don't see very many women over 40 who look like that, so it particularly attracts my attention when I do see them, because I understand how much work is required to stay that way when you are older, have kids etc.
  • la_te_ra_lus
    la_te_ra_lus Posts: 243 Member
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    it depends on how a woman carries herself.. They can be sexy from 15%-30%
  • amwbox
    amwbox Posts: 576 Member
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    30-35. 40 if she carries it well, and its distributed.

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