 Next question is from one corner. Can your body fat percentage decrease without actually losing fat 100% Yeah, look, okay So I remember years ago when I figured this out like before I became a trainer and I started figuring out body fat percentage And I actually learned how to test body fat before I even took a certification course actually bought one online and tried to do it on my cousin or whatever and It was interesting. I gained weight and My measurements would go down. I thought I was doing something wrong like how is this possible and my body weight went up But my body fat percentage is going down I couldn't figure it out and then you know my cousin who is better at math than me I am he's like well. Yeah, it's a if you have the same amount of body fat on your body But you weigh more that same amount of body fat is a smaller percentage. It's a smaller percentage now so if you know if you weigh a hundred pounds and you have ten pounds of body fat on you and Then you're at ten percent body fat ten percent of your body is fat if you went to two hundred pounds and You're still have only ten percent ten pounds of body fat now. It's half now It's five percent you just it went down and body fat percentage because it's a smaller percentage of your overall body weight Not to mention You've also sped your metabolism up by doing that. Oh, yeah, and this I love talking about this because it's probably I think I think this was a young guy who's asking this question, but The people that really need to perk up and listen to this this conversation are My clients or the listener who has a large body fat percentage and has a long journey ahead of them of losing weight or losing fat and This is a really hard concept to get them to understand is that that is actually what I want to do with that person So client comes in 50 pounds overweight or more and they say Adam I don't feel good all the all the symptoms of why they're there, right and I want to change this Where do I start? I actually want to start right here I don't I don't want to decrease you on the scale But I want your body fat percentage to go down which may mean You may be high you may have hired me to lose 50 pounds on the scale because you thought That's what you wanted to do when I got you to understand that we really want to just lose fat You want to keep your muscle you understand that then a month has gone by and I gained you three pounds You went up three pounds now the if you can't Explain this to a client you could lose your you could lose your job really good You need to explain this you need to learn to explain this because what the the client needs to understand is That is a excellent place to be to have added three pounds Even though your goal was to lose 50 pounds to add three pounds to the scale But your body fat percentage went down a percent or two that that what that tells us is that? You've lost fat off your body, but you've also added muscle Which means we and we know muscle tissue needs more calories to stay on your body So if you're a higher weight and in more of its muscle than it is fat than what it was when you started with me That means you've got a faster metabolism and your leaner than when we started even though The scale says two pounds Have you it makes it easier to continue to lose fat because one of the biggest challenges for people who are who have a lot of Body fat to lose one of the biggest challenges is not to lose the initial 10 pounds or 15 pounds The hardest thing is to lose the last 10 or 15 pounds And then what's even harder than that is to keep it off And so what what Adam's talking about is literally setting you up for success long term That's what you're setting up for now We're having a faster metabolism and that means that the 50 pounds is more likely to be gone later And it's much more likely to be off forever the other point that you want to make with people is you know If you're you know 200 pounds and your body fat percentage went down and you didn't lose any weight you lost size Remember body fat takes up more space Than muscle does body fats fluffy. It's not as dense So five pounds of body fat versus five pounds of muscle you can clearly see a clear difference It takes up more space on your body So I used what I would do with my clients is I would show in the body fat percentage Then I would just circumference measurements and say okay You didn't you gain two pounds, but your waist went down a quarter of an inch and your thighs went down You know a quarter of an inch so you actually lost size which at the end of the day Nobody gives a shit how much your weight anyway, right? This is such an important conversation It's also the bone that I have to pick with shows like the biggest loser is because technically what we're seeing when we see That is not a good thing So if a client came to me and and this is later, right? This is later on in my career early on in my career I fell right into like the biggest loser type of trap and that that mentality of you know, just let's burn Let's burn as much we can let's lose as much as we can as fast as we can because that's what they want But later on in my career. I realize that that was a trap So if I if I the same client hired me Okay, and this is and you've got to get good if you're a trainer listening on communicating this if you hired me To lose 50 pounds and you and that first month goes by and I lost you 10 pounds. I didn't do a good job That's let that sink in for a second You want to lose 50 pounds 30 days in and I lost you 10 pounds on the scale. I didn't do a good job I would much rather see you have stayed the same or potentially increased your weight Because we put a lot of energy and focus on building muscle and not so much on just losing weight The weight thing will be easy It will be easy if we build your metabolism up first if we just go chasing the scale and the weight right away Sure, I could I could have lost you 15 pounds in the month instead of 10 If I would have just made you eat less calories and ran you more just like what we see on biggest loser But what I know is that sets you up for failure That's why 85% of those people put all the weight back on and some is because it's a terrible way to go after that