Your Ideal Weight, The
Main Target To Aim At During
Your Weight Loss Program!
Chapter 3 -- Part Four!

In this Your Ideal Weight article you will discover why tracking your body composition on a regular basis is the fastest way to create irreversible, long term weight loss success!

Instead of just weighing yourself using the weight scale, the best way to create permanent fat loss and keep track of your current reality during your weight loss program is by using a weekly weight loss chart that will allow you to measure the changes in your total body fat weight (TBFW) and your lean body mass (LBM).

But, until you create the body of your dreams, it is to your advantage to use the most objective approach for measuring your weekly weight loss progress, and this means that you have to keep your eye on the changes in your lean body mass and you’re your total body fat weight!

You see, scale weight does not really tell you how much of your total body weight is your muscle mass and how much is unwanted body fat. In addition to this, your ideal weight does not show the water fluctuations that are a normal occurrence during any weight loss program.

The changes in your lean body mass and your total body fat weight -- are what really reflect the objective end results that you are getting from your weekly weight loss efforts.

The biggest challenge in any long term weight loss program is to burn off all the unwanted body fat that you currently have, without losing any of your current muscle mass.

And this is exactly "what my weight loss system" has been designed to help you to achieve in the fastest time that is possible, and why the weekly weight loss chart that you will know how to design after reading the next chapter -- is an important part of it!

By the way, maintaining your current muscle is important, not only because it makes you look good, but also because of what it will do for your metabolism.

Muscle is a metabolically active tissue, which helps to keep your metabolism elevated and helps your body to burn off more calories during the day. This is something that we will also cover in an upcoming chapter in full detail.

When You Want To Know What Your Ideal Body Weight Should Be, Don't Waste Your Time Using Height And Weight Charts!

The true measure of long term weight loss success -- is when you achieve a drop in your total body fat weight, while maintaining your lean body mass.

This is the biggest problem with height and weight charts. They do not take into account your total body fat weight and your lean body mass. Because of this, most of the time they are very inaccurate.

The best way to track your weekly progress in this program is to create a weekly your ideal weight loss chart of your own -- which will help you to keep track of your body composition on a regular basis.

This is the only realistic way to objectively track your current reality and to be 100% sure that you are walking on the right path, and heading in the direction of your major health goal.

Using this your weekly your ideal weight loss chart, you can track the changes in your lean body mass and your total body fat weight on a weekly basis. And, as soon as you see that your weight loss program is not producing the results that you are after -- you simply adjust your approach, -- and get back on track next week!

If You Want To Know Your Ideal Body Weight You First Have To Choose Your Ideal Body Fat Percentage That You Will Target!

Your weekly weight loss chart will always reflect these warning signals, and you can make the necessary adjustments in your nutrition and exercise strategy, -- and next week get back on track, and continue to head in the right direction!

Before I explain how to measure body composition, here are the average body fat percentages. Please take into account that these are only averages, and many people have body fat percentages that are much higher than this.

The average female has about 22% body fat and the average male about 17%. The female hormone estrogen causes women to carry about 5% more body fat than men.

For you to create a lean, healthy body you have to aim at around 15-20% body fat if you are a woman and around 10-15% if you are a man. Essential body fat is 2-3% for men and 7-8% for women. This body fat is necessary for protection of the internal organs, energy storage, and insulation against heat loss.

It is not recommended for women to reach body fat levels lower than 10%, because this can cause problems with estrogen production.

Temporarily reaching these levels is necessary only for women that compete in bodybuilding tournaments. But during off-season female bodybuilders aim at maintaining a body fat percentage of around 15%.

Men bodybuilders drop as low as 3-5% body fat for competition, and during off-season maintain around 10% body fat. The biggest problem with maintaining a very low body fat percentages, is that all you can think about is food.

This obviously is not something most people can put up with for a long time, and is definitely not something that you should ever attempt to do for an extended period of time!

This is the main reason why I never drop my body fat percentage lower than 10%. At this ideal body fat percentage, I can maintain my ideal body weight of 175 pounds, and at the same time avoid the massive hunger that is a consequence of having a very low body fat percentage!

You have to always remember that body fat is a "long term" energy source for your organism, and that as soon as you reach a level, -- where your body starts to consider that your "total body fat weight" is too low -- it will trigger its defense mechanisms, and will force you to run to the fridge or to the store to get some food to consume, ASAP!

In the next section we will cover exactly how you should calculate your ideal weight, so that you will have the main weight target to aim at -- during your entire weight loss program!

From here you can also go back to The Body Composition Section to read all the other parts from Chapter 3.

The Ultimate Fat Loss System

In my book The Secret To Permanent Fat Loss you will find a simple, easy to follow "step-by-step" your ideal weight loss approach for creating the body of your dreams.

If you want to create irreversible, long-term your ideal weight loss success in the fastest time that is humanly possible -- this is the ultimate fat loss system that you will find -- for making this goal a complete reality!

Inside The Secret To Permanent Fat Loss you will discover exactly how you can create the “non-stop” motivation fuel that is necessary for you to use proper nutrition and exercise in order to reach and then maintain your ideal body weight for life!