My Favorite Smart Scale Is 30% Off for Black Friday
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While there are pros and cons to tracking your health data too closely, if and when you choose to weigh yourself, you should be doing it with the best and most useful scale. I personally use an iHealth Nexus smart scale, which I got for its full price of just over $40 and have absolutely loved using for almost a year. Since it's marked down to its lowest price for Black Friday, I'll tell you why, in case you decide you might like it, too. (It's great, but I still would have rather paid less for it.)
I got this thing last December, when I was going through a phase of using tech to more closely monitor my health data. After I'd invested in a new Apple Watch (to get a better sense of how many calories I was burning and how much sleep I was getting), I figured I'd better take the next step and buy a smart scale that would sync up with my Apple Health app, simplifying all the complexities of who I am, physically, into graphs and numbers on my phone.
The iHealth Nexus was my choice, and I'm quite happy with it. It offers readings of your weight, body fat percentage, body water percentage, muscle mass, lean mass, and bone mass, and it calculates your BMI, daily caloric intake, and visceral fat. A lot of that is probably not all that accurate (and BMI is generally a poor measure of your overall health), but I do like that seeing and tracking all that data is an option.
What I like best about the iHealth Nexus smart scale
My favorite thing about the scale is how easily it syncs with Apple Health, which in turn syncs it with all the other apps I use for things like tracking my workouts and calorie intake. Even my telehealth apps are linked to Apple Health, so the scale's data is instantly shared with every single app and platform I use. This helps me communicate with my doctors and even makes sure that the calorie counts on my workouts are accurate, all without me having to tinker with anything or update my weight in the apps. The readings appear on my phone the instant I step on the scale (of course, the most basic measurement of my weight also appears on an LED screen on the device itself).
I also appreciate that, in addition to showing me my daily readings, the app automatically creates graphs that illustrate changes over time. It's nice to see trends in my weight or BMI reflected in a way that is easy to understand, instead of manually comparing each day's reading to the one before like I used to do with my non-smart scale.
Finally—and this isn't as important to the device's performance as it is to my personal preferences—it's sleek, and actually looks nice in my bathroom: flat, pure white, aesthetically pleasing, and light enough for me to nudge out of the way with my toe when I'm done with it. I got my boyfriend one in black after concluding it would look really sharp in his bathroom, too, then told my friend to get one when it was on sale for Prime Day over the summer. They both love theirs as much as I love mine—and now, since it's even cheaper than it was during Prime Day a few months ago, it's your turn.