Is it Good to Use a Scale?

The scale can be helpful for those monitoring poundages. Nevertheless, the scale won’t tell you how fat you are or how good you look.    

Did you ever notice that wherever there’s a scale, someone is willing to step on it?  Ironically, the scale usually depresses people — and for no substantial reason.  Rarely are they even accurate.  The slightest amount of food or liquid can throw your reading out of whack.  Even a tall glass of water can register as much as a half pound of weight increase!  Water is weight, but the reading implied it was fat!   Sudden weight changes are usually from fluid shifts in the body.

The scale is hardly a determinator of fatness, muscularity, or obesity because it doesn’t discriminate between fluid or fat weight.  As far as monitoring your gains or losses, it’s just not precise.  You should have your body fat measured by a qualified technician.

Who’s to say your scale is correct and the others are not? A professional or doctor’s scale is definitely the better choice.  Still, I don’t recommend it.  Though it may be more precise, many factors can “throw off” even a doctor’s scale.

If you set your goals by pounds, you may be surprised to find that upon reaching your anticipated body weight, you still might not look the way you expected.  Our advice:  Put away that cursed scale!  This little gadget causes more mental distress and confusion than you probably want or need right now.