I have been looking at scales and the one says you weigh this much and the other says you weigh this much but I never know which one is actually the accurate one. So now I have one of those really cool scales that you put your age and your height in and then it measures your weight, body fat percentage and your body water and out of all the things in my opinon I have found that measuring your body fat is actually the most accurate way to monitor your body. I have gone by the bmi calculations and even those aren't that accurate because they always say I'm under weight which is wrong because I'm on a normal weight and when i do the body fat calculations it is always accurate to what it should be. To test your body fat there is a few different ways but the two most used ones are with callipers which is hard because you have to keep going in to have it done and then the scale that I have. So now I'm going according to my fat percentage and my body water percentage.
If you have one of these cool scales you should know that men should have between 15 - 18 percent body fat and a women between 20-25 percent and for body water men should have 55 percent and women 51 percent. Right now my body fat is slightly high but still in the range it should be in so now instead of working on weight loss I'll be working on fat loss.
Oh just before you go out to buy one of these scales I just want to add that if you do have a pacemaker or any other implanted device you shouldn't use this scale at all. The reason for this is because in order for it to measure your body fat and water it sends an electric current through your body and does its calculations depending on the speed the currents pass through your body
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