On 3/3/2019 6:12 PM, Rod Speed wrote:
Mike wrote
Andy wrote

Looking for recommendations for a digital bathroom scale. Thanks

Do you want any of the bloated features beyond displaying your weight
on a screen?
If you want more, that should be your guide.

One thing I discovered too late is that your scale should have a
display big enough that you can read it without your glasses...

Not even possible for me, it would have to have
the screen inches from my nose to do that.

remembering that you'll have the same scale 20 years from now and your
eyesight probably won't be getting better.

But if it loads the weight into your phone and the
better ones do now, you can read it there or get it
to announce your weight even if you have managed
to wank yourself completely blind by then.

My $2 garage sale scale displays all manner of crap like BMI.

Mine too.

Why do I care?

So you know that you are morbidly obese and you need to
stop shovelling so much food into your mouth every day.




My experiments suggest that, for my scale, the BMI number is more
dependent on how moist your feet are than how fat you are.


For most of us, the scale does one thing. It tells us to put the
padlock back on the cookie jar if the number is too big.

And the BMI is the best measure of too big.

BMI is certainly a metric. Good to know it once. Once you know it,
weight is sufficient for management.

I suggest that a blood test for sugar and cholesterol might be
better indicators overall. But you can't normally get those from
a bathroom scale.

Having a BMI graph on your iPhone is worthless if you can still access
the cookie jar.

I dont even have a cookie jar.

There's a marketing opportunity.Â* A scale that has the cookie jar
attached that won't open if you're too heavy.

Hardly anyone would buy one and anyone with even
half a clue wouldnt bother to fill the cookie jar and
would just gorge on the cookies straight out of the box.