We can understand how seeing increased body fat when you are losing weight can be a bit confusing. Here's a little information about why that's likely happening: Body fat percentage often increases when one loses weight because of hydration levels. In the first week or so of eating better, most people tend to lose a lot of water weight, because their diet includes less salt and refined sugar. Body fat percentage is calculated as fat mass divided by total mass, so if you significantly lower the total mass while fat mass stays the same, the body fat percentage will increase. Even if the fat mass is indeed decreasing, the total mass is decreasing more, resulting in an increase in body fat percentage. If you continue to weigh yourself daily, you'll probably see that your body fat percent goes down on days when your weight fluctuates up since you're retaining more water those days. Similarly, on days when your weight fluctuates down, the body fat percent goes up because you're retaining less water.
Even after losing weight my body fat increased instead of went down. Print
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Modified on: Tue, 22 Feb, 2022 at 3:25 PM
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