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DEXA scan is far more accurate than BMI.
Lie on a table and an arm passes over you taking cross-sections.
You get a picture of yourself with your fat showing up in yellow. Basically I look like a banana.
Great for data nuts or OCD types. I got exact totals for fat, bone and muscle, and where I fit in the percentiles of the general population. The machine calculated my weight to within a tenth of a pound of what our fancy Tanita scale at home.
davidual
I appreciate that it’s a discredited metric hence it’s not been mentioned, but the BMI is pretty brutal!!
Too end for the acceptable zone for my height and age is more than I weighed in my early 20s when I was running competitively and playing tennis seriously (and, from looking back at photos, I didn’t have any spare).
Is there a better/more realistic metric to consider?