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Weight Loss Scales

Question: What type of scale should I use to track my weight loss?

Answer: If you are trying to lose weight, you may often be tempted to hop on your bathroom weight scale to see how much weight you have lost. But the scale may not be your best measure of success.

For one thing, weight scales measure your weight in pounds or kilograms, but unless you have a special kind of scale, you will not be able to determine how much of your weight is water, how much is fat and how much is muscle.

Since muscle weight more than fat but takes up less room, you can actually get thinner and not lose weight.

You can get thinner and add weight as well, if you are doing a lot of strength training exercise that tones your muscles. If this is the case, you will probably also find that you can eat more without gaining additional weight. If you are one who needs to see numbers as a measure of success, try to find a bathroom scale that can tell you how your weight is distributed.

There are scales that will give you your composition of body fat as well as your overall weight. There are also scales that can tell you how much water weight your body carries. Of course, these scales are more expensive than a basic scale that gives an overall measure of your weight.

If you are really interested in the details of your body composition, you may be able to find a physician or fitness trainer that has a body composition analyzer. This is a special scale that measures not only overall body weight, but also body fat percentage, hydration level, lean body mass, BMI and more.

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