I have a new Tanita "Inner Scan" scale and I'm not too happy about the BF% it's giving me!!! It says I have 44% body fat! I looked on my doctors wall chart today and if I was 44% BF I should weight 280#!!! (I weigh 190.) What is UP with that??? I've had the scale for about a week and the reading is fairly consistent.

Throw it out!

Actually, I know nothing about these scale, but I am curious how it could read body fat just by stepping on it. I think the best judge of BF% is in one of those dunk tank machines they sometimes have outside my gym. I for one am not ready to face that question.

At any rate, I hope someone has a more direct answer for you. I don't think I need another number to obsess over yet. Good luck.

I got it more for the body water reading that it also has, but that BF# is driving me nuts. Whether the number is accurate or not, I figure it can at least give me a comparitive number over time to chart my progress. actually, i don't mind scales so much anymore!

"i don't mind scales so much anymore!" I hear ya on that one! I didn't even OWN a scale before banding. I know a lot of people have said they only weigh once a week, but I weigh every morning as soon as I get up. My digital scale gives me tenths of a pound and I chart it religiously. I am very aware of 10ths of pounds and I think it helps me be more conscious of what I've been eating in the recent past. I also tend to "obsess" over the 10ths, which I think is a GOOD thing, because in the past I was like "Oh, I'm 195(200, 210, 220)...well, when I hit 200 (205, 215, 225...) I'll start worrying about it and DO something...." Now I am VERY aware of EXACTLY where I am and if I see those 10ths start to go up in any way I really buckle down.

Another thing about having 10th of a pound on my scale....each 10th I lose is like a mini-goal for me and I celebrate. Then when the POUND number drops by even ONE I get VERY excited!!!! It makes me appreciate the POUND loss that much more!:whoo:

Yep, me too. That's why I got this Tanita. If I gain a pound I can look at the water reading and see if that's the culprit ...if it is, I don't worry so much. If it's NOT....well, it's time to get serious again!

I personally think that all of those body fat % scales are wrong. I have one, too, and it's always suspiciously high. I go and have a caliper test done by the fitness trainer at my gym once every couple of months, and to the *percentage point*, my scale is ALWAYS off by 10%. When I first got the band, the scale told me I was 54% body fat, but the trainer told me I was 44%. Now, the trainer tells me I am 27% body fat, but the scale is telling me I'm 37%!

I say...take what the scale says with a HUGE graint of salt.