It is generally accepted among the medical community that your ideal body fat percentage, regardless of your age, height, weight, or activity level, should be anywhere between ten and fifteen percent.
The greater your body fat percentage is above the upper threshold of fifteen percent, the more increased is your risk of developing health problems later in life.
Conversely, the lower your body fat percentage is below the lower threshold of ten percent, your risk of developing health problems also increases.
For this reason alone, it is extremely urgent that you take action to get yourself to within a healthy, ideal body fat percentage range, as quickly as possible.
The longer you prolong and put off your weight loss, the more damage you are doing to your health.
Of course you may not experience any health problems if you are young.
The effects will be cumulative, as the adverse effects of being overweight build up gradually over time.
However, it is never too late.
Even if you lower your body fat percentage by a fraction of a percent, you stand a very good chance of reversing the effects of being overweight and limiting the damage that is being caused to your person.
Most often, people tend to assume that weight loss should be measured in terms of pounds lost.
However, they are not taking into account that the number of pounds that you way is not what matters.
What matters is the ratio of your body fat to the rest of your body.
You want to have more muscle mass and less fat mass.
That is the true measure of your optimum body.