You’ve dropped twenty pounds and people have started saying so, but you look softer in the mirror than you expected to at this weight. Your scale has one number for you, but you want to know more: have you been losing muscle?
Turns out the RENPHO MorphoScan scale can answer that, and it’ll tell you which parts of you are gaining and which are losing.
Where the weight actually went
The full name is the RENPHO MorphoScan Nova Body Composition Analyzer, and it gives you more than just a single number, because it gives you a fat and muscle split. And it splits those numbers again by body part. You pull a handle up out of the scale and hold onto it while you stand, so it reads your arms and your torso on the way through instead of just your feet.
So you’re not getting one lump figure for all of you. You get to see that the muscle you’ve added is in your legs, and that the arm you rehabbed last spring is still behind the other one. A bathroom scale has never been able to tell you either of those things.
If you’re on a GLP-1, this is the number to watch
When people lose weight on a GLP-1, about 30% of what comes off is muscle rather than fat. That’s not as alarming as it sounds, since you always drop a bit of muscle along with the fat no matter how you’re losing it. But it does mean that every time you step on the scale you’ll be wondering: is this mostly fat, or am I losing more muscle than I’d like?
After all, you want the fat number going down and the muscle number holding steady. If you step on it first thing every morning, before you eat or drink anything, you’ll have a solid graph that tells you exactly what’s going and what’s sticking around.
You see it before you pick up your phone
The handle has a 4.3-inch color screen on it, so your numbers are right there while you’re still standing on the scale. There’s plenty more underneath: visceral fat, body water, bone mass, metabolic age, more than fifty readings in all. It holds eight profiles too, so your partner’s weigh-in doesn’t affect yours.
It’ll take 400 pounds and reads in 0.2-pound steps, it charges over USB-C, and a charge lasts about five months. RENPHO says to use it for weighing only if you have a pacemaker, metal implants or an artificial joint, or if you’re pregnant.
Nothing is behind a paywall
The RENPHO Health app is free the whole way through. Nothing’s locked off, there’s no monthly fee, and there’s no premium tier sitting on your history. It’ll send everything over to Apple Health, Health Connect or Fitbit, so it all lands on your phone with the rest of it.
It’s $199.99 right now, down from $219.99, with free shipping and 30 days to send it back. Buy it on renpho.com and the warranty runs 18 months, which is exclusive to orders placed there.
Seeing you’re twenty pounds down on the scale is good, but knowing it’s all fat is better.
