Best Smart Scale for 2024
Weigh yourself at the same time: To get a consistent reading when using a scale, it’s important to weigh yourself first thing in the morning, before you’ve had anything to drink or eat. “You should weigh yourself with no clothes on, or minimal clothing, and if you do, try to wear the same clothes every time you weigh yourself,” said Stella Lucia Volpe, professor and chair of the Department of Human Nutrition, Foods and Exercise at Virginia Tech.
Volpe recommends weighing yourself no more than once a week. “If you weigh yourself more often, you’re going to see fluctuations in your body weight, and that can be frustrating if you’re trying to lose weight,” she said.
Choose an even surface: Make sure your scale is on a flat surface, otherwise the imbalance will throw off the reading. Make sure you weigh yourself in the same place each time.
Please note that the smart scale may have defects: Keep in mind that just because a smart scale can provide more data than an analog scale doesn’t always mean it’s better. “Smart scales have not proven to have high accuracy and cannot be compared to the ‘gold standard’ measures of bone mineral density and body composition in relation to body fat and lean body mass, which is dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA),” Volpe says.
Most people don’t have access to a Dexa scan, so the next best thing is a smart scale. “The smart scale can give you an estimate of body fat and total body water; but keep in mind that the ‘gold standard’ ways of measuring these would give you more accurate data,” Volpe explains.
