Expecting The Right Results For Fast Fat Loss Diets

     When undertaking a hardcore fast fat loss diet, results will vary based on how hard you're working and your body composition. Despite this, you should have some reasonable expectations for your weight-loss plan.

At the end of the day, you have choices in determining the body-fat percentage to strive for. Some individuals put in a lot of work and effort to look as "ripped" as they can be. Others are satisfied with an average, healthy level of fitness.

So we'll establish a rough maximum and minimum for body-fat percentages. Following that, we'll look at the average rate where most people should aim to be.

Not only are there unhealthy maximum and minimum amounts of body fat, it's also unhealthy to strive for too little and to push for too much.

You don't want to have a high body-fat percentage, and you don't want to exercise or nutrition-obsessed with a very low body-fat percentage.

On top of that, there are also genetic differences between men and women that make it unhealthier for woman to have a lower percentage of body fat. This is due to evolutionary reasons for women to store more body fat.

Here's a rough guide for average levels of body fat:

***Men:

Up to age 30: 9-15 percent
Age 30-50: 11-17 percent
Age 50 and up: 12-19 percent

*** Women:

Up to age 30: 14-21 percent
Age 30-50: 15-23 percent
Age 50 and up: 16-25 percent

It's just the way it is: Body fat percentages get higher as people get older, and a fast fat loss diet can't do much to combat that. As someone ages, muscle tissue is lost.

When lean muscle mass is lost, the overall body weight drops but body fat remains the same. This increases the total body fat percentage.

To expect to be at the bottom of the body-fat spectrum after age 50 is possible but probably not reasonable, even using a fast fat loss diet.

To remain healthy, men should aim for a total body fat percentage under 15 percent. Females should hit below 21 percent. It's important not to go too low because body fat is vital for certain bodily functions. If you do end up too low, you might run into some health problems.

Because of this, men should stay above seven percent body fat. 12 percent is the goal for women.

The healthiest range is between 8 and 14 percent for men and 13-20 percent for women, no matter your age. We'll call this range "the safe zone."

Where you fall in "the safe zone" just depends on how strictly you're working on your fast fat loss diet.

If you want to be incredibly built and ripped, then you need to get yourself down to the bottom of the healthy body-fat percentage for your age and gender. Doing this means you must give a great amount of dedication and motivation. If you just want to be healthy, then you can strive for somewhere in the middle of the range. The choice is yours.

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