Anybody have a bioimpedence scales, useful, or a gimmick

[XLáBealtaine]

What can they tell you? Your fat / muscle ratio? Anything about your bones? Do you have to get a bone scan to know if your bones are in good nic?. Could your bones be dense enough /porous enough to affect your weight.

My friend and I are the same age roughly, height, both on hrt, neither of us is ''big boned'' by any description. I view myself as being the same size roughly, but I'm a whole stone heavier. It it were 7lbs heavier I'd think ok, I guess my shoulders are a little wider, but a whole stone!? Either I have heavy bones :-p , that ol' chestnut, or I'm in denial.

Being polite (?) my lovely friend expressed surprise that I was a stone heavier.

So, to pierce my denial, should I get a bioimpedence scales? I would like to know if my body composition is ok. I walk a lot. I'm not a vegetarian. Low carb, not keto, I do eat enough protein (I make sure I do because it manages hunger). Avoid sugar, flour, cake, chips, pizza all the bad stuff. Not completely obsessed though, I occasionally have about 20 grams of green and blacks 85%

Those scales do work. Most people are not big boned (heavy bones) but peoples body shapes mean they hold their weight differently, I've always been told I look smaller than i weigh even by doctors, I once had a doctor who thought i'd put weights in my pockets when i hopped on the scales so just goes to show.
It's the same theory as two people who weigh exactly the same often wont be the same dress size.

It could be you have a higher muscle mass than her (muscle weighs more than fat)