if i lost 1 % body fat loss on scale?

Unfortunately, there's no way anyone can make an accurate assessment of how much body fat such a person would lose over time. Too many variables involved. For example, this person may think his diet is in check but he could be eating things he shouldn't or not getting enough of another nutrient he really needs. We also don't know how much cardio he'd be doing (there is such a thing as too much) and we don't know what type of weight training program is being used. Is this guy doing a bulking routine to build muscle mass or is he doing more of a cutting routine to tone up? Much more information is needed...

Get off the scales! As women, our weight can fluctuate as outlined by our menstrual cycle, water maintenance and meal times. So refrain from standing on the scales many times to avoid becoming obsessed as well as demotivated.

Snack on high fibre, low starch carbs including organic nuts and seeds, quinoa, barley and oats to scale back those pesky hunger pangs till dinnertime. It also stops anyone from attacking the biscuits.

Choose menu items that are usually grilled, baked, blackened, steamed, or broiled instead of fried or breaded.

prepare fewer foodstuff

Get rid of as much crap as you can.

low carb plus calorie counting is ideal

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Don't worry about it. Those number are almost meaningless. Here's the story.

Actually it almost impossible to know that you lost 3 pounds of fat. You may have lost 1pound of clothing, 1 pound of water, and 1 pound of fat or 2 pounds of water and 1 pound of fat or some weird combination of variables such as that. We never really know what our weight is with complete accuracy for a variety of reasons. We retain and expel water, our scales may not have good repeatability, etc. As soon as you weigh, if you drink a pink of water, you gain a pound. Or pee a pint and lose a pound. So, what's really important is the long term loss because our daily weight jumps up and down with clothing, scale errors, fluid and waste retention & expulsion, etc.

If you're using a scale for measuring body composition, don't. They are notoriously inaccurate and really no more than a gimmick to sell scales. I have one of those digital impedance scales and we never use the percent fat portion because it's so unreliable.

Weighing is fraught with in accuracies and it's a poor method for determining if you are losing fat, gaining fat, or maintaining. Calorie tracking, tracking your energy intake and output daily, is the best way to know what's happening with your body composition.

Here's an example of my intake --> http://www.myfitnesspal.com/food/diary/clickmaster which will tell me if I'm gaining or losing fat without regard for what the scale says. I've been losing fat since I began the diet but my scale goes up and down for reasons described below. Well, actually I'm on maintenance diet-wise and today I ate junk food. That said, here's some general info about weighing.

SCALE ERRORS

Home scales have poor accuracy. They all have some zero offset, nonlinearity, repeatability, and full scale errors which, when combined can result in a +/-2 lbs error or greater. Often, how you stand on a scale can affect the reading as well...especially if it's digital. If it's analog, parallax can create errors. Then there are the human errors such as not weighing in the nude and wearing different things from weighing to weighing. If all of those errors run in the same direction they can be significant.

MEASURING ERRORS

You should weigh three times and average the measurements if there's any variance. You should also weigh during your lightest period which is usually in the morning upon rising and after voiding the bladder but before eating or drinking. Not following the above can result in very significant errors depending on how accurately or inaccurately you were weighing.

WATER & WASTE ERRORS

Water and solid matter will change your weight over the course of a single day as well as from day to day. Water weighs one pound per pint and your body will retain and expel water depending on many variables such as dietary influences (sodium, caffiene, etc), hormonal influences, activity or inactivity, emotional influences, state of health, etc. Solid matter (feces) is not as heavy as water but it does contribute to body weight as it builds in the GI tract between defecations. If a person is irregular and defecates once per week, solid matter can account for a loss of as much as 2 pounds or more. It is not uncommon for an average person to have a body weight variation of 2 pounds during one 24 hour period owing to water and waste variations. During the course of a week a 5 pound variation is not at all unlikely.

Exercise equipment is also notoriously inaccurate for several reasons. However, one big problem is the equipment will usually ask you to enter your weight. And, with the it will attempt to determine your BMR so it can add those calories to your actual burn. In other words, the machines will normally tell you how much you burned exercising plus how much you would have burned if you hadn't done anything at all. So, that gives a high indication of how much you burned, makes you happy, and you'll continue to use the machine wearing it out faster so they can sell the gym another machine sooner. It's a bit of a scam but then who really believes what commercial machines tell us, right? There more to say on this matter but I'm running out of room here and you're probably bored silly by now.

A good way to lose fat is to just eat your BMR everyday and then ALL of your activity will go to burning fat and you won't have to worry about how much your energy output was ever. You'll just watch the fat slowly go away. For more about that, read my answer about how to lose fat ---> http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=As615...

Good luck and good health!!

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PS: Here are some good websites you may find useful.

• A MUST FOR DIETERS http://www.freedieting.com/

• BEST DIET TOOL ON THE WEB http://www.myfitnesspal.com/

• BEST FOODS FOR YOU http://www.choosemyplate.gov/index.html

• NUTRITION DOT GOV http://riley.nal.usda.gov/

Eat in front of a person rather than a screen. It cuts down on mindless eating and making you more accountable for each bite.