Understanding Your Body Fat By Steven A Johnson At Isnare.com Ezine Articles

Before you decide that you need to lose weight you should understand your weight and how it works, and understand your body fat. Don’t forget under that fat is muscle, and muscle weighs more than fat. You only want to loose fat and not your lean body mass, so if you are trying to lose weight to rapidly remember over 7 pounds you are losing muscle! You have to loose 4000 calories to lose 1 pound.

Fat is one of the many components that make up your body, along with muscle, water, organs and bones. Fat is one of the components that you can control. You do need some body fat to function normally. Storage fat is the fat that is necessary. This sits under your skin and in your muscles and protects your organs.

Where does fat come from? Excess calories in the body that aren’t burned throughout the day store as fat. If you are very active during the day you can burn more of the fat storing calories. Make sure you understand what your calorie intake is so you are not putting yourself in a situation where you’re building fat onto your body.

Your body always seems to be placing the fat in one area. This is based on your genetic code. Females usually gain fat around the thighs and hips, where as males gain it in the midsection. Find exercises that work for those specific areas and don’t over work your self. The best way to lose this fatty tissue anywhere is to jog. Jogging not only makes you loose the fat but turns it into muscle as well.

After you find out your body fat percentage it is essential to know how much fat you need to lose. Many people mistake weight for fat. Weight consists of water, tissues, organs, bones. You do not want to loose water weight for a few reasons. Number one when people go to the sauna or steam room to loose weight what they don’t realize that it is not fat they are burning. They are just getting rid of the water in their body. When they step out 2 pounds lighter and think they have succeeded in reality they haven’t. As soon as they consume a liquid with any calories in it, it will immediately be stored as fat. When they consume water later that day the weight will be put right back on.

The normal essential fats for a woman are 10-12% and for men it is 2-4%. The acceptable amount of fat for a woman is 25-31% and for a man it is 14-17%. If you are a woman once you have 32 plus percent body fat you are considered obese. For a male it is 25 plus percent.

I am going to give you the formula to find your body fat percentage. It is different for men and women. For women it is a little more complicated. First take your body weight and multiply it by 0.732 then add 8.987. Second measure your wrist and divide it by 3.140. Next Measure your waist at the navel and multiply by 0.157. After that measure your hips at the fullest point and multiply by 0.249. Then measure your forearm at the fullest point and multiply by 0.434. Now add all of these factors together to find your lean body mass. Next take your total body weight and subtract the number you just got (lean body mass) to find you body fat weight. Lastly you take your body fat weight x 100 and divide by total body weight.

The body fat formula for men is much simpler. Step 1 Take your total body weight multiply by 1.082 then ass 94.42. Next steps 2 measure your waist and multiply it by 4.15. Your lean body mass is step 1 – step 2. Your total body fat weight is. Your total body weight minus lean body mass. To find body fast percent is the last step. Body fat weight x 100 divided by total body weight.

Once you have figured out your body fat percentage you will know how much you need to loose. Make sure you lose the body fat safely. There is an all natural pill called Lipoway to help support body fat loss without side effects.

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