Originally Posted by
waterrockets
Fair enough, but what % of body fat accounts for this other mass? Isn't this structure measured when using calipers, or is it factored out in the computations that follow?
quoting from another forum where I talked about going from 13% to 9%. Where the 15lbs represents about 8-9% of bodymass.
13% down to 9% makes sense to me based on 15 pounds of total weight lost.
This is obviously mega rough but: you were at 24 pounds of total fat before, down to ~15 now.
20% of total weight loss being lean tissue is expected/predictable, so that's 3 pounds there. With total lost fat at 9 pounds with, say, an additional 3 pound drop in the capacity to carry body water in a comfortably hydrated state*, there's your 15 pounds matching up to the percentage shift, which may not be accurate but still makes sense as internally consistent.