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What is Body composition?

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Body composition

Body composition describes what your weight is made of, mainly fat mass and lean mass such as muscle, bone, organs and water, rather than the single number on a scale.

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In plain words

Two people with the same height and weight can have very different body composition.

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Why it matters

On a GLP-1, the scale alone cannot show whether you are keeping muscle, so composition is the better progress check.

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Body composition describes what your weight is made of, mainly fat mass and lean mass such as muscle, bone, organs and water, rather than the single number

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