What I Learned From My Body Analysis Scale

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My dietitian usually weighs me each time I see her, which is every two weeks. Now, because of COVID-19, our sessions are remote. When I started seeing her, she proposed overcoming the fear of the scale. My initial response was, “Yeah, no thank you.” But, as my dietitian put it, by consistently weighing myself, breaking any myths I’ve held onto about weight, and realizing that no, I won’t gain 5 pounds from eating a brownie, I essentially take back control of my brain and body. I didn’t weigh myself for years and my weight remained relatively unchanged. That alone is enough to tell me I don’t need to weigh myself. But avoiding scales indefinitely also seems like a behavior rooted in fear and that is not appealing, either.

I didn’t have a functioning scale, so I decided to invest in one. After a few minutes of *half-assed* online research, I settled on this scale, because it’s affordable and quite honestly, most body analysis scales are inaccurate anyway.

I weigh 152 pounds, which renders me on the cusp of “overweight” according to the BMI (Body Mass Index). My body fat percentage, however, consistently rests between 19–22%, according to my scale (which may or may not be accurate). What is important though, is the consistency of the numbers. Body fat percentage actually tells…