Losing weight is easy… according to every skinny person I’ve ever known. For most of us, it’s a lot harder. Adding gadgets won’t make weight loss any easier, but it will make tracking your progress a lot more informative.
If you’re overweight and want to start making progress, you really don’t need anything more than a calculator to add up calories and a basic bathroom scale to track your progress. But getting more specific information on multiple factors will give you a more complete view of your fitness (or in my case, lack thereof). And having multiple data points that show improvement can keep you from getting discouraged when losing weight turns out to be less “easy” than you’ve been told.
To be specific, we’re talking about hardware and software for tracking weight, exercise, and food intake. We’re not covering any particular tips on dieting or exercise methods, because frankly, there are better places than Review Geek to find diet information that works for you. But gadgets and apps? That’s our specialty. Let’s take a look at the tools we’ve found most useful.
Bathroom Scale: Renpho Smart Body Fat Scale ($30)
This bathroom scale is a step up from the standard analog dial your parents had in their bathroom. In addition to a big, backlit LCD that’s easy to see even without your glasses or contacts, this model can track up to eight different users for big families, with with a 396 pound (180 kg) maximum capacity for… um, big families.
It works fine as a conventional weight scale, but users can dig into the more advanced settings to get estimated body fat, muscle mass, and even bone weight. Further, it syncs with your smartphone so you can track your progress over time. For a scale that doesn’t cost any more than a weight-only model you might pick up at a local retailer, it’s positively packed with functionality, and the tempered glass top makes it easy to keep clean.
The Renpho was our top budget pick in our roundup of best smart scales, so if you’d like something fancier (or you’re just curious what fancier even looks like in the scale world), feel free to dig in.
Kitchen Scale: Escali Primo ($25)
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