Getting Dunked - Part 2

I'm back from my dunking appointment and, boy, did I learn a lot! Thanks to Aeron at FitnessWave, I now know an accurate weight, body fat percentage, lean body mass percentage and a whole bunch more.

For now, I've only received my summary report, but by tomorrow I'll have a full report with much more data (guess I'll need a part 3, eh?).

So far, this is what I know:

Weight: 192 lbs. - my bathroom scale is several pounds heavy according to this.
Body Fat %: 37.1% - I'm carrying 71.2 lbs of fat around - twice what I should have
Lean Body Mass %: 62.9% for a total of 120.8 lbs. This is everything EXCEPT fat.

For women, 22% is used as the "ideal" - at 22% fat with 120.8 lbs of lean body mass, my ideal weight would be 154.8 lbs. That would have me targeting a weight loss of about 35 lbs... 10 pounds less than what I had set as a goal for myself.

Finally in my summary report is daily caloric intake to maintain my current weight: 2688 calories. According to Aeron, to lose FAT, I need to have a slight deficit from this - say 500 calories or so. Over time, that deficit in calories will be the key to losing fat.

Exercise is also important for maintaining lean body mass while losing fat, but food is the key and total calories is what really matters.

Stay tuned for more details once I get my full report tomorrow... don't you feel smarter already? I do...



Until tomorrow...

-- Kristin