Scale is actually a good indicator to your weigh, however, it is by no means a ideal indicator of how fat or slim you really are. It can not stand for your fat totally. You measure your body as a whole including fat, muscle, organs, bone and water. What you eat, what you wear and whether you measure on the carpet or tile even the different time in one day will influence the reading.

Therefore, many health professionals and personal trainers advice their clients to not look the scale as their only source of measurement program. In fact there are some other methods like circumference reading and body fat testing that will be helpful to give you more accurate results. But how to do is simply an ideal way. So there are two formulas which will let you know whether or not your body is healthy enough. Of course men and women have different ways to do it.

For men the ideal shape is resembling an upside-down triangle with broad shoulders and a solid chest but a smaller lower body.. With good chest-to-waist ratio they will have lesser health risk than those whose chest-to-waist ratio is not so good. So to men they need the circumference reading of your chest and waist in inches. In order to calculating chest-to-waist ratio, you need to subtract your waist measurement from your chest circumference. An ideal number to aim for would be 10.

Much different from men , the ideal body shape for women would be slim waist and slightly wider or proportionate hips. Overfull weight in their waist has more impossibility to cause heart disease so to slim down waist is what some fat women supposed to do first.

Waist-to-hip ratio really is able to determine weather your body is optimal or bad shape. So you will also need to measure the circumference of your hips as well as the waist in inches then calculate your waist-to-hip ratio, divide your waist measurement by your hip measurement and record your score. An ideal number would be a ratio of under 0.8. You should do something to track your score and change gradually day by day if you need.