Best body composition scale

Few people are aware of this, but Body Impedance Analysis is very inaccurate? Consumer Reports found in 2016 that the best of body composition scale was still 21% off from the gold standard BodPod.

Before knowing that, I was relatively satisfied with the Omron body composition scale, which I’ve reviewed on Amazon. It doesn’t sync with anything, but I’m fine with opening up a spreadsheet once a week and logging one row of weight, body fat, muscle percentage, and visceral fat. On the plus side, it has a handle, which gets the current to pass through more of your body than scales without one.

Healthline has a review of body composition scales but their analyses are pretty superficial, naive, and almost identical in substance.

I gave up on using body composition scales and got into excellent shape in 2021 by eating up to 1700 calories a day and lifting weight 3x a week for 3-4 months. I used a regular scale.

Then in 2022 I got rid of the scale, because it kept showing the same weight, as I was undergoing body recomposition, eating up to 1800 calories a day.

TL;DR - you don’t need a scale.