fat.
But fact is - you cannot decide where you want to lose fat. It's your bodies decision and there is nothing you can do about that.
But now I want to come back to what you should do if you want to lose fat. It's really easy and probably you are already doing this:
Tracking your body fat levels where your care about
Tracking your body fat levels is essential on any fat loss diet. But what is the right way?
The right way is always the most reliable way!
But what is the most reliable way?
To answer this question I want to ask you what kind of body fat you care about and want to get rid off?
Some body fat stored somewhere inside of you or the body fat anybody sees at the surface under your skin?
Well I bet it is the second one and this is exactly the point where you should measure your body fat. You should measure your skin fold thickness by using a body fat caliper.
Nothing fancy like body fat scales is as reliable or as cheap as good old body fat calipers.
It seems half of the fitness world is using some kind of electronic body fat measuring tools. But I say - it's a waste of time and money if you build up your muscles as well.
You can find it in any manual I know of: "this scale is not intended for people involved in a muscle building workout routine", but anybody seems to ignore this.
These electronic tools are calibrated with data of people who have average body fat and muscle levels. But if you workout with weights you don't have an average

body composition.
How will I know?
I tested several electronic measuring tools on some of my personal training clients with very low body fat levels and washboard abs. Depending on this measuring tools - all had more than 10% body fat - one even had over 27% body fat on one of these electronic tools. Could you think of having washboard abs with more than 27% body fat?
No way!
So I want to come back to the body fat calipers. These are some great tools to measure your progress when it comes to losing body fat.
If you measure - always use the same formula to calculate your body fat levels. There are a few different formulas out there and they all give different results. But the most important thing is the measurement itself. So if you lost one millimeter on your waist skin fold - you lost some kind of fat on your waist.
Best regards,
Oliver Wolter

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About The Author

Oliver Wolter is a world renowed fitness and bodybuilding expert. He is the author of the X-Size (www.x-size.com) weight training computer software and the Perfect Six-Pack (www.fat-burning-ab-workout.com) fatburning book. He is also the author of different fitness/bodybuilding related sites like Muscle Building Net.