What does it mean when the body fat percentage decreases? What is considered thin?

Recently, I have found that my body fat percentage has been decreasing. Does this mean that my body fat is decreasing? What is the body fat percentage required to be considered thin?

The decrease in body fat percentage means that the proportion of fat in the body is decreasing, and the proportion of muscle and other body tissues is increasing. The decrease in body fat percentage means that weight loss is successful. After the body fat percentage decreases, the fat in the subcutaneous tissue of the body decreases, the muscle lines are obvious, and the body becomes stronger and more fit.

Generally speaking, men with a body fat percentage of 5%-10% and women with a body fat percentage of 5%-20% are considered thin. In order to control the body fat percentage within the normal range, it is very important to develop good living habits. Diet therapy and exercise therapy should be adopted at the same time to lose weight, reduce calorie intake, and increase calorie consumption through exercise to achieve the effect of weight loss. What everyone needs to pay attention to is that if you only rely on dieting without exercise to lose weight, it will often only reduce muscle but not fat, and it will also reduce basal metabolism, which will make it easier to gain weight again, and it will not be good for human health.

Body fat percentage refers to the proportion of body fat weight in the total body weight, also known as body fat percentage, which reflects the amount of fat in the human body.

1. Excessive body fat percentage will increase the risk of various diseases, such as cerebral hemorrhage, myocardial infarction, hypertension, kidney disease, diabetes, deformed arthritis, gout, fatty liver, cholecystitis, menstrual abnormalities, pregnancy complications, dystocia, risks during surgical operations (hypertensive disorders during pregnancy and dystocia), etc.

2. Too low a body fat percentage can cause functional disorders. If the body fat percentage is too low, athletes' athletic performance will decline, and female athletes will experience amenorrhea.

The normal range of body fat percentage for adults is 20% to 25% for women and 15% to 18% for men. If the body fat percentage is too high and the weight exceeds the normal value by more than 20%, it can be considered obese. The body fat percentage of athletes can be determined according to the sport. Generally, it is 7% to 15% for male athletes and 12% to 25% for female athletes.

Diet therapy and exercise therapy should be adopted at the same time to lose weight, reduce calorie intake, and increase calorie consumption through exercise to achieve the effect of weight loss. If you only rely on dieting without exercise to lose weight, you will only reduce muscle but not fat. On the contrary, it will reduce basal metabolism and make it easy to gain weight again.