Etekcity Bluetooth Body Fat Scale, Personal Scale, Smart Digital Scale, Body Analysis Scales with Intelligent App for Body Weight, Fat, BMI, Muscle Mass, 28 St/180 kg/400 Lb, Black

UPDATE: 3So in exactly 5 weeks, I have lost 6.5kg (1stone 5lbs 5oz). If you look at the pictures of the trend you can see that I peaked at 98.15kg, on 20th May, 2019, and today, 30th June, 2019, I now weigh 91.65kg. My body fat has also gone into the “acceptable” green area, though it’s on the cusp at 25%. My next target is to get to under 90kg by this time next week. You’ll also notice from the last graph that yesterday I was actually 93.20kg. I scoffed a full carton of pork fried rice on Friday night (28th) after running 7.5km (4.5miles). I also ate half a large box of Maltesers and a dinner before running of fried noodles and steak with veg around 400g. Breakfast was a bacon sandwich (Aldi (and I’m sure other supermarkets) do reduced fat bacon medallions which are only 58 Calories per two medallions). (This was my binge day.) However, I actually finished off the previous normal bacon which are 98 Calories for two rashers. So how did I drop over 1.5kg in a day?It wasn’t water loss, I actually drank over 4.5litres of water yesterday because it was 29degC. How I did it was I worked out with some resistance bands available on Amazon here (https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01MZHL27K/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o06_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1) which I did a 60minute work out with, plus 3 sets of press ups, ab crunches, and sit ups. I also walked around 6.5km in the evening. I ate half a fish shop battered cod with fried baby potatoes, and had another bacon sandwich for breakfast and just 4 Ryvita (rye) crackers with butter and cheese for supper. Yet, I lost over 1.5kg, which proves once you start to weight train (resistance train) you can accelerate the process. The resistance bands are great and I highly recommend them.Thus my further advice for rapid, healthy and consistent weight loss is contained within the rest of this review. You can see the evidence and it all started with these scales. My target of 82kg by 7th August, 2019, when I go to Cyprus for my holidays looks possible, if I raise my game. At current weight loss rates of 6.5kg per 5 weeks, I’ll miss the target. However, I am going to train every day with the bands, and let’s see if I do it. If you really want to lose weight:1) Buy these scales2) Measure yourself using the App every morning before breakfast but after doing your “ablutions”.3) Limit your calorie intake, try to cut at least 200 calories out per day by cutting biscuits and crisps.4) Walk for 20-30mins a day until you’ve lost 2kg. Then start increasing the intensity of working out.5) Add some resistance band training or go to the gym.6) Always have one day when you binge.7) Make your own chicken soup and have it at least once a week!8) Develop willpower to walk past McDs and KFC (the greatest evil on the planet!)9) Go once a month into either KFC or McDs as your binge day.10) Believe in yourself and think of the health benefits to yourself and your kids/family and friends.UPDATE: 2HELPFUL WEIGHT LOSS TIP......This morning, I got on the scales and was shocked at how I’d put on weight (mass) after my Friday night binge. (After running 9km, I was shocked, even though I rewarded myself with some pork fried rice). I’d put on 700gms (0.7kg). However, I remembered the advice I’d given when I first reviewed, always weigh at the same time of day. Of course, it’s also about when you weigh in your morning routine. I’d forgotten to do my ablutions (!!!!) and after that I’d only put on 150gms (0.15kg). You see how important it is to weigh yourself after the loo? I was shocked before going and much happier after going. It also illustrates a point too that you should have one day when you take on more calories and eat rubbish.UPDATE: 1These scales with their combined app, have helped me to lose weight. In 10 days, I’ve lost 2.2kgs by just cutting down my portions (marginally) and adding 30 minutes of walking every second day to my normal routine. I’m a bit sedentary at the moment due to deadlines at work and working from home. Had I been actively in and out of the office, I would have added around an additional 30mins of brisk walking. The secret is to use the scales every day (at the same time) and monitor the trends in the app every day. There’s a great feature that shows your basal metabolic rate. It can show you the number of calories you have used, and the number you need to maintain weight. If the BMR is higher, then you are burning calories to lose weight. I’m consistently burning 300-500 over what will maintain weight, which means I’m losing weight. Of course, you need a smidgem of willpower, but having a visual track is important and highly motivational. I’m aiming to lose 10kg by the beginning of August, so I have a clear target. That’ll get me back to my ideal weight (athletic build) which due to major surgery and an accident after the surgery caused my surge (along with bad habits excused by the surgery and accident) in weight. I highly recommend these scales, and as you can see by the newly added photo, you can keep them in the same place because they are the exact same size as a ceramic floor tile. As mentioned in the main review, you should reduce moving your scales to a minimum and keep them in the same place. Obviously, floor cleaning requires movement, but with these fitting in a standard tile, you can put them back in the same place. (Same place means same level, means same force, therefore same readings conditions.) BUY THEM! SUMMER’S COMING AND SO’S THE BEACH!PROS:1) Easy to use and to set up.2) Accuracy3) Great Value for Money (at £16.99 = Bargain)4) Informative and useful app5) Quality construction.6) Multiple user profiles on same device or different (mobile) device.Cons:NO APPARENT CONSI often laugh at the comments/reviews of products on Amazon. Some of the people on here are totally unrealistic. They pay a comparatively small amount for a product and they expect military specification outcomes! These scales cost me £16.99, apparently reduced from nearly £50. Therefore, I am not going to say that these scales are out by 0.001kg (One thousandth of a kilogramme (otherwise known as a gram)) or the body water content is out by 0.05% (5 hundredths of a percent). If you expect this level of accuracy, then you need to be paying in the hundreds of pounds, not less than £20! In any case, weight and any form of body measurement is a relative concept when applied to an individual. This is why there are multiple measurements to give a fuller picture of your body composition.BMI or Body Mass Index is a ready reckoner. It’s not a good way to measure your relative weight, unless it’s against previous readings. The reason is because it’s a simple calculation which works out your weight divided by your height. This gives a measure of grams per centimetre of height. Some people have dense bones, like my wife, yet she is a very slim size 8, with an athletic body. Thus, considering how much bone, fat, water and muscle mass makes your total mass up needs to be considered with the BMI.(Here’s another point for laymen: when you stand on scales, you’re measuring mass, not weight. Weight is the effects of gravity on mass, otherwise known as force. Force is measured in Newtons, not kilogrammes. To work out your weight, you need to multiply your Mass (in kg) by the acceleration due to Gravity which is 9.81 metres per second per second. That will calculate your Weight!)Aside from the physics lesson, these are excellent scales. In fact, it doesn’t matter if you pay £100 or £10 for scales as long as you maintain consistency. In other words, measure yourself at the 1) SAME time of day, on the 2) SAME scales, and 3) NEVER move the scales. Each time you move the scales they lose accuracy. Always use the scales on 4) HARD ground NEVER on carpet, and on EVEN/LEVEL ground. Even with cheap scales, you will have a mass accurate enough for comparison. If your weight goes up on your cheap scales, it doesn’t really matter whether it’s bang on or not, only that relative to your previous weight it’s gone up. This is PROVIDING you have followed my instructions with maintaining relative accuracy, it won’t matter about your scales.These scales are excellent because they’re probably the cheapest that link to an app. Obviously there are privacy issues with an app, but as a tool to manage your health via relative measurements they are excellent. You cannot get a set of scales with this level of functionality anywhere else. BUY THEM....ignore the negative reviews, these are Dottore approved.

So I had this delivered yesterday, and with any woman who hasn't stood on the scales will know, we go through all sorts of emotions before we do. Now I stood on the scales and was both horrified and relieved, I was still in the same stone range as before...just at the latter end of the scale, OK Girl, you got this, you can sort this.I must say these scales are so easy to set up and the app downloads in seconds and so far has been great....except it's backwards, or that is my excuse anyway, it told me my metabolic age was 52, yes 52, in the flash of an eye I am 7.5 years older, hence why i believe it is backwards, surely i should be years younger :D i mean come on, who really is brave enough to tell someone they are older than their years?? Whatever way you look at it, it left me with 2 choices, either I let my emotions get the better of me, or i embrace the challenge it set me.Challenge accepted, gym kit purchased, healthy eating commenced and what's more, the husband even jumped on board, the scales lied to him to, it added just 4 years onto him...surely he can't be ageing slower than me.So short version, the scales are great, the information is comprehensive, easy to set up and link to your phone/smart device. what you do with that information it tells you is down to you, you can choose to bury yourself in chocolate or change your ways. Myself, i found it very eye opening and it has inspired change.I have also down loaded the my fitness pal app to track calories which could be a great addition along with the information received on the scales.

When I first received these scales a couple of months ago I thought they were great, but unfortunately over time they have become more a source of frustration. For one thing for 3 days it stated that my body fat had more than doubled, while other measures such as muscle mass halved. It is now back to normal range but I have zero idea why this happened. I think there is practically no way it is possible for a persons body fat/muscle mass to change so drastically overnight but perhaps I didn't need that second helping of rice.But this is probably just a temporary glitch with the BIA, there are other issues. For one, you have to stand on the scales for some time for the BIA to work. This means multiple readings tend to be sent to the app which you have to then go through and delete if you only require one. The app is pretty bad too, it allows you to see the trends for only a handful of measures, why not all? It means if you want to track say, visceral fat, you have to go back and forth between dates rather than see progress in a chart or graph. Also, measures seem to randomly come and go - there are supposed to be 13, then there were 11, now there are 13 again. The BIA also seems fairly inaccurate, I had it done professional at a clinic and got completely different readings.But saying that, for the price it isn't too bad. The scales look good and although I'm unconvinced by the accuracy of the BIA at least the weighing element seems to work well. Worth it as a budget option but don't expect miracles for the price.

Pleasantly impressed! Cheap scales that are not too inaccurate time will tell...!You can see on my photos that I went on a Boditrax machine at my gym this is a very expensive machine and the readings from that to these £16 scales were not miles away!

Although the scales arrived on time, for me the operations were just far too complicated. Probably very attractive for people requiring such detailed analysis but, sadly, not for me. I just wish to keep a check on body weight.