What is the calculation?

Hey guys, I know that this was posted before but I can't find it. What is the calculation to determine percentage lost? I think it was for percentage of body fat lost??? thanks, hope everybody is doing good! sarah (wishing for some sunshine)

Hi, your question got me interested in finding out the answer to my own percentage of weight loss. The only answer I found was in an old post, I am not sure it is the correct way to figure it out but it makes sense to me, so here is what I found out. get your starting weight, your goal weight, the number of pounds you have lost so far, and the number of pounds you need to lose to get to your goal. divide the number of pounds lost so far by the the total number of excess pounds you need to lose to get to goal. example 269lbs start weight goal weight 150 current weight 180 pounds lost so far 89 total needed to goal 119 89 divided by 119 rounded off comes to .75 or 75% of excess weight lost What do you think? Does that sound right? Let me know if that is right. Sher

Ok - let me try. Surgery weight: 368 Goal Weight: 202 (don't agree with the scan ) Current weight: 245 Pounds lost so far: 123 Total needed to get to goal: 166 123/166 = 74% (woohoo if this is right!) I don't know if that's right or not - I don't remember the old calculation having the goal weight in it. It was just based on actual numbers, not assumed ones. thanks for the info, sarah

According to my Doctor on Wed. (9 month check up) I am exactly at 75% weight loss at 9 months! Yee-ha!