Recommendations for a scale

[Janruffin]

Thanks I will see if that helps!

[Mike_W_Ellwood]

Several years ago I discarded a crummy scale and never replaced it. Now that I am keto-ing, I want to monitor my progress. I’m not the kind of person who has to anxiously check in with the scale every day. My body measurements are not changing noticeably so I want to check my weight.

Which scale do you use? Do you consider it reliable? Does it have the sensor for measuring body fat?

I get that home scales are imperfect; I just want one works pretty well.

I’m pretty happy with my (probably 7-8 years old) HoMedics. Not sure of the model number, but I guess they have new models now, and I’d hope they are at least as good.

Because it was getting scruffy looking, I bought a new scale (different brand) that got rave reviews on Amazon. However, I found it was all over the place. I’d weigh myself. wait 5 minutes and with no changes (in or out), it could be registering 1 pound more or less, sometimes 2. I was surprised, and ran tests over a couple of days, and it was consistently bad! Whereas my old HoMedics was consistently good. So I returned the new one.

It does have some sort of body fat sensor, but when I tried it in the early days, the results were a bit bizarre, and I got the impression that home body sensors were not dependable, so I never bothered with it after that. I’m measuring my waist size from time to time, and I guess that gives a reasonable indication that I’m losing fat and not muscle.

It doesn’t have high-tech stuff like PC/phone linkup, but I can well live without that.