{"id":46,"date":"2021-01-21T00:57:32","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T00:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.inbody.in\/blog\/?p=46"},"modified":"2026-10-05T10:53:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T10:53:20","slug":"why-the-weighing-scale-confuses-you-and-what-to-track-instead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inbody.in\/blog\/why-the-weighing-scale-confuses-you-and-what-to-track-instead","title":{"rendered":"Why the Weighing Scale Confuses You (and What to Track Instead)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Measure & Understand your Body\u2019s composition; it might be telling a different story.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Losing weight is hard. It involves spending time at the gym, stopping yourself from eating your favourite food, and saying \u201cno\u201d to things that make you happy in general and \u201cyes\u201d to things that don\u2019t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you\u2019re like most people, you want to see results that justify your hard work. And that result, more often than not, has to do with seeing that number on the scale go steadily down. So you weigh yourself. Even though you know you shouldn\u2019t, you weigh yourself every day because you need a reason to keep going.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Everything is fine until the unthinkable happens: the scale stops going down. Or, after one \u201ccheat day\u201d you find yourself 2 or 3 kg heavier and you think, \u201cOh no! Everything I\u2019ve done for the past 2 weeks is for nothing!\u201d Repeat this a few times and before you know it, you\u2019ve given up on working out and you\u2019ve dumped your diet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sounds familiar?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The truth is, you were probably doing a good job before you quit.<\/strong> You probably just got discouraged because you did what no one should ever do: you weighed yourself too much and read too much into it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Every day is too much. Even every few days is too much. Here are 4 reasons why your scale can mislead you and make you feel discouraged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First and foremost\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

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InBody Dial H20 home scale with its companion smartphone app<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

1. You\u2019re confusing \u201cweight loss\u201d with \u201cfat loss\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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It\u2019s a safe bet to assume that when people want to lose weight, what they really mean is that they want to lose fat. The problem is, many people use the words \u201cweight loss\u201d and \u201cfat loss\u201d interchangeably, which are two separate concepts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Losing overall weight isn\u2019t hard \u2013 you\u2019ll drop a few pounds if you sit in a sauna for a while. Fat loss is harder to achieve, depends on several factors, and it takes more time than you think to truly lose it. Here are a couple of key points about fat loss to consider:<\/p>\n\n\n\n