How to Pick a Goal Weight

When you say you want to lose weight, what you actually mean is that you want to lose body fat. This is not the same thing as losing weight. And this makes picking a goal weight tricky.

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In today’s post:

• Gaining muscle will make you weigh slightly more at a smaller size which can make it tricky to pick a goal weight

• Aiming to have a waist measurement of roughly half your height is a good gauge that you have a healthy body composition (a healthy ratio of fat to muscle)

• The goal of intermittent fasting (IF) is health, not emaciated people

• When considering a goal weight, it’s often healthy to think about a goal body

• You may be approaching your goal weight if you’ve stopped losing even after mixing up fasting protocols