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Chapter 5 · Matt Peacock

Expected Rate of Weight Loss Based on Body Fat

August 11, 2025

how much weight should I expect to lose a week how fat are you oh I mean yeah I suppose it's a good point yeah and I'm not okay if you're fat will you lose could you expect to lose more faster we can't say we can't say fat that's not politically correct so if you're grab it depends how gravitationally challenged you are If you are more gravitationally challenged, should you expect to lose weight faster? A hundred percent, as long as you don treat your mouth like a vacuum cleaner Fat or weight You going to I mean they both fat is weight right but uh i would say if you are yeah if you sick if you have a significant amount of fat to lose you're gonna lose a lot of it really quickly if you're dieting it the leaner you get you probably want to slow it down a bit because you don't want to you don't want to burn off muscle you want to protect the metabolically active tissue you're trying to retain whilst getting rid of it so i would say it depends on where you're going to continue the fatter you are the faster you can go. It's not a problem. Um, if you are in kind of the average body fat level, somewhere like for women, somewhere in that like 25% plus or minus a bit, if you're men, like 15% plus or minus a bit, um, you can, I would look at anywhere from 0.5 to 1% of your body mass per week is pretty safe. But then once you start getting below 12, you start getting into that like 10 to single digit, I would probably slow it down and say, you know, more towards that 0.5 per week is a better idea. Okay.