JJ Virgin explains why the scale lies: it can't tell you where fat is stored or your actual body composition. Visceral fat around your organs is riskier than subcutaneous fat on your thighs and hips. Without a body-composition test, you're flying blind.
and that our body fat is not dangerous. There's a huge difference between having body fat on your thighs and hips and having body fat around your viscera, right? So we want to make sure that we have body fat in the right places. So we can't tell that with the scale. And I can't tell you how many people DM me on Instagram saying, well, this isn't working. I go, but you, you know, tell me what your body composition is. They go, we haven't tested. I go, then I don't— how do you know? You don't know. You have no idea by just stepping on the scale what's happening here.
