Rethinking how we measure health — and why it might be time to step off the scales. “Weight is what you weigh. Obesity is a condition of how your body’s tissues are balanced. They’re not the same thing.” — Dr. Cal Paterson ⚖️ Rethinking the Scale: What Are We Really Measuring? For decades, stepping on the scale has been treated as a neutral act — a quick number that supposedly tells the whole story of health. But as Dr. Cal Paterson explains in this powerful episode, that number often does more harm than good. Weight and obesity are not synonymous. Weight is simply mass; obesity is a clinical condition related to the balance of fat, muscle, and other tissues. Yet, in medical settings, we often conflate the two — reducing a complex human experience to a single metric. “Imagine if a mechanic put your car on the scales before checking