How to Use a Scale to Lose Weight

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You can be healthy at many weights and sizes. But if you want to lose weight, you may have wondered: to weigh in, or not to weigh in? The bathroom scale is the classic measurement tool for this task, to be sure, but there are plenty of reasons to consider not bothering with it.

A scale can tell you what your weight is at a current point in time, and that’s all. It can’t tell you how much of that weight is…