On Monday, March 4, 2019 at 9:12:00 PM UTC-5, Rod Speed wrote:
"Andy" wrote in message
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On Sunday, March 3, 2019 at 7:24:21 PM UTC-6, Mike wrote:
On 3/3/2019 10:18 AM, 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...remembering that you'll have the same scale
20 years from now and your eyesight probably won't be getting
better.

My $2 garage sale scale displays all manner of crap like BMI.
Why do I care? 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. Having a BMI graph on your
iPhone is worthless if you can still access the cookie jar.

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

I just need an accurate weight. Do not need any bells or whistles.

Much more convenient to have the weight automatically
loaded into your phone etc than to have to do that manually.

How about Andy is like most people and doesn't want to or need to
load his weight into his phone? Is that OK with you? Or does
everyone have to think they need to do that and track their weight
by the gram, thinking they can see their weight gain or loss after
each meal?






And it doesnt need to be accurate either, just reproducible
so you can see trends over time and what effect various
meals and physical activity etc has too.

This from the moron that told us that he needs a scale to tell him
if his weight is in the normal BMI range. The rest of us, of course
look up our BMI range once, and if we give a damn, we simply remember
the weight range. You need a scale and a phone and now you say it
doesn't matter if it's inaccurate. Nice. So you really weigh 190
but the inaccurate scale says you weigh 175 and tells you that your
BMI is in the normal range, while you're really overweight.
See where I'm going, moron?







I find it convenient to have it calculate BMI for your supplied
height too because thats the number that matters.

IF it matters to you at all, your normal BMI weight RANGE is what
matters and everyone in this thread can remember two numbers, except you.