Overweight issues

[mimitabby]

actually, the scales measure body fat by using an electrical impediment method. a small current - which you do not feel - goes through your body and it moves differently through fat than muscle than through water. based on the measurement of the electrical pulse as it exits your body the scale can measure your percentage of body fat and your percentage of water. body fat is actually a much more important number than weight. If you lose weight just by dieting, with no exercise, you can actually be losing muscle which is worse for you than not losing the weight at all. If you lose fat and gain muscle but your weight stays the same you are healthier. obsessing about the number is bad, as obsessing about anything is bad, but knowing the number and using it to improve your fitness and your health is good.

my husband bought one of those scales. He's a biker with a flabby upper body.
he came out being something like 8% body fat. we both knew that was NOT true.
but if you look at his legs, they could be 8% body fat. but the rest of him was at least 30% body fat so those scales can't really be very accurate.