How healthy are you?

You work out regularly, get enough sleep, drink water, and eat well.  By now you know that your weight is not the most accurate method of determining your health. Ok, so do we just throw out our scale and hope for the best?  Not quite.  Measurement is a good thing, we just want to make sure we are using metrics that give us helpful feedback.  

Don't worry, your scale will not be missed. Whole9 did a great article on 174,203 ways to measure your health. Take a look at the excerpt below and find out how your health stacks up.


It’s hard to find hard-and-fast statistics on this one, but we’re pretty sure that most U.S. households have at least one bathroom scale. One Canadian study reports that 40% of people weigh themselvesdaily, and another reports that a full 75% of regular scale-users are women. That’s millions of bare feet stepping cautiously onto millions of scales each and every morning, leaving millions of people to judge their personal worth by that digital number staring accusingly back at them. And regardless of how they actually feel, the majority of those people will be crushed, jaded, frustrated, embarrassed, angry, and dejected when they step back off; their sense of self-worth skewed by what we believe is a mostly useless measure of progress.

Break Up With Your Scale.

We’ve written about the dangers of the bathroom scale before. We’ve ranted and raved about how it’s not only an ineffective indicator of your health improvements during the Whole30®, but ultimately detrimental to your psychological (and often physical) health. But while many of our readers proudly announced the ditching of their scales, just as many tell us they still need their scale to tell them whether or not they were making headway in their march toward better health.


We’re here to tell you (again) that there are better ways to gauge your health than how much weight you’ve gained or lost. Want to know if you’re getting healthier using something other than the scale? Try these.