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Comment by travisglines

After noticing the percentage differences and the weight drop, I wanted to do the math to figure out how much muscle vs. fat he lost.

He went from 219.2 at 35% body fat to 195.8 at 28.1%. If you do the back of the napkin math real quick that works out as follows:

    219.2 * .35 = 76.72 lbs of initial fat
    219.2 - 76.72 = 142.48 lbs of lean mass

    195.8 * .281 = 55.02 lbs of final fat
    195.8 - 55.02 = 140.78 lbs of lean mass
That means he lost ...

    1.7 lbs of muscle
    21.7 lbs of fat
Normally I say that these diets are often bad, and end up putting you back further where you started because you lose so much muscle and therefore regain it all much quicker.

However in this case 92% of his weight loss was fat, which is awesome.

parent travisglines 14 years ago

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