Weird question, I know. But some employees at work are doing a little weight-loss challenge. The person who loses the most "percentage" after 6 weeks wins. So far, everyone has lost 13 pounds each. They all understand that the person who started with the lowest weight is ahead of the percentage game so far, but now it's game on!! They only have a week and a half left ... one of the girls weighed 216, one weighed 180 and the other weighed 170. How can they calculate how much percentage of weight they've actually lost? Hope you can help.
PS - if you have something rude or ignorant to say, don't bother replying.
2006-07-12 10:30:55 · 4 answers · asked by jayj 2 in Health ➔ Diet & Fitness
What I meant, is take for example the 180 pound person - she lost 13 pounds. How much would that 13 pounds work out to be percentage-wise? Like how much percentage of her body weight did she lose? How much did the others lose? Can you tell I totally suck at math? lol
2006-07-12 10:38:51 · update #1
Mama Gretch, you rock! Thanks for not only answering my question, but figuring out everything for me as well. Now I get it, and will pass the info on.
Tried to chose your answer as the best one, but the system will only allow me to do so after 24 hours. I'll be back then to do that.
Thanks to the others who answered as well.
2006-07-12 10:50:54 · update #2
OK - I've done the math for you (not too hard once you know the equation!) To figure out a percentage of weight lost (or percentage of anything), you would divide the number of pounds lost by the starting weight. For instance:
13 pounds lost/216 pounds starting weight = 6% loss
13 pounds lost/180 pounds starting weight = 7.2% loss
13 pounds lost/170 pounds starting weight = 7.6 % loss
If everyone lost the same amount of weight, the winner would always be the person who weighed the least to begin with.
LOL jayj... Santa needs to get you a new calculator for Christmas! No problem, and tell your colleagues to keep up the good work (wish I could do as well...)
2006-07-12 10:37:16 · answer #1 · answered by Mama Gretch 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You would take the amount of weight you lost and divide it by your pre-workout weight. So if you weighed 200 and lost 30 (you'd be 170 now) you would divide 30 by 200:
30/200 = .15, or 15%
But I think since everyone's a different weight, the person who weighs the most has the advantage to lose the biggest percent. It should be whoever loses the biggest percent of weight that's needed to be lost. So if someone were 130 and only needed to be 120 (lose 10 pounds to be healthy) then losing 5 pounds would put them at 50%. They lost 50% of the weight their body needed to lose in order to be healthy.
2006-07-12 10:45:07 · answer #2 · answered by punchy333 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do you mean how much body fat lost?
If so, you use a body fat calculator, like this one: http://www.stevenscreek.com/goodies/pi.shtml
Put in your mesurements before losing weight and the one's after. Do a bit of math and voila!
2006-07-12 10:35:15 · answer #3 · answered by Simplicity 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
share your weight loss goals with your friends and family make it a positive life change and ask for their encouragement
2016-04-21 05:46:55 · answer #4 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋