How to Calculate the Percentage of Body Fat Lost

Monitoring your body weight alone can be misleading and not indicative of the condition of your overall physique. Even at the same weight, someone with excessive body fat can appear overweight, while someone with low body fat can appear lean and trim. Body fat is essentially an energy storage system, which can shroud your otherwise fit body in a blanket of blubber. Therefore the goal of weight loss should focus more on reducing body fat to healthy levels, which can be 19 percent to 26 percent for women and 10 percent to 20 percent for men ages 20 to 40.