What Body Fat % is fat to you?

[Jay520]

Michael-5 said:

Jay520 said:
Dpending on which picture you use...

25%-30% is when I would recommend losing weight, though I may not call them fat.
30-35% is where I would label them fat.

If you're not fat, why do you need to loose weight? Is overweight not fat anymore?

There should be a middleground between "fat" and the ideal range. There shouldn't be only an instant difference between "ideal" and "fat", since they describe two different extremes. It's a gradial spectrum. My definition of "fat" is based on a combination of health and what looks heathy. If someone's bodyfat level could potentially negatively affect their life, then I would label that person fat.

The ideal range is self-explanatory. The middleground is where a person's level of bodyfat is not harming their life, but if they lost some fat, they would look more attractive and/or be healthier.

It's all semantics.