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Date Posted: 05:44:17 05/29/03 Thu
Author: eileen11
Subject: Re: One MOnth and no real results
In reply to: Justine 's message, "Re: One MOnth and no real results" on 11:23:45 05/28/03 Wed

>Hey there Eileen
>
>I don't want to burst your bubble or discourage you,
>but there is almost no possible way that your body fat
>could have dropped 10% in one month with no change
>anywhere else. Your body fat percentage represents
>what percent of your body is made of fat. You can
>multiply your weight times the percentage reading and
>find how many body fat pounds you have. Here's the
>math:
>
>at your first weigh in, you weighed 160 and had 43%
>body fat. 160 x .43 = 68.8 lbs.
>
>second weigh in, you lost one pound and your body fat
>was 34%. 159 x .34 = 54
>
>68.8 - 54 = 14.8 body fat pounds.
>
>It's simply not realistic that you could lose nearly
>15 pounds of body fat and see no change in your total
>body weight. You'd have to replace the 15 pounds of
>body fat with 15 pounds of muscle. I'm not saying it's
>unlikely to lose 15 pounds (I had one lady at my club
>lose 17 lbs in one month) but it's unlikely to lose 15
>body fat pounds and then GAIN 15 pounds of muscle
>(which is what you would have had to do for this to
>make sense)
>
>I'd guess that whoever wrote your measurements down
>transposed the numbers or mixed you up with someone
>else. Or the body fat reader went bersek. Who knows.
>It's possible that your first measurement was wrong in
>which case you can't go back and correct that one, but
>have them do it again and igore the first reading and
>go from there.
>
>Again I don't want to discourage you, but I would
>definitely bring it to the attention of your Curves
>and have them re-measure you.
>
>Good luck
>
>Justine
>
>>I've been going to Curves four times a week..and
>>working VERY hard. I love it! I'm 5'6", 160 pounds
>>and 51 yrs. old. I had my first weigh-in on Friday. I
>>lost 1 pound, no inches and my body fat went from 43%
>>to 34%.
>>I'm very confused about this. If my body fat went
>>down almost 10%, why didn't I lose any inches?? What
>>happend to the body fat? No inches lost and only 1
>>pound lost...and the machine says 10% body fat lost.
>>Any advise out there?
>>OH...I am on a low carb diet...no bread, pasta,
>>potatoes, etc. For the last month I eat only meat,
>>eggs and/or salad for meals.
>>Eileen
I agree with you. That's why I posted here. No results...I can't imagine how they're telling me that I lost all that body fat and not an inch or pound lost.

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