Dr. Lazarus

Dr. Lazarus

Physician at Clinical Nutrition Center. Helping patients full-time with medical management of obesity and life-long weight control.

Is It Worth Investing in a Body Fat Scale?

person on scale

The number you get when you step on a standard bathroom scale is a measure of your total body weight. That weight can come from bone, muscle, fat, water weight, or food that hasn't passed out of your system. You may notice that you lose or gain weight from day to day, but who much of what you gained or lost is body fat?