WithingsBody Scan - Connected WiFi Scales to Improve Your Health, BIA Personal Scale, Body Composition Analysis, Body Fat, Muscle Mass, Water Percentage, Electrocardiogram, White

The perfect partner to a Withings smartwatch for an integrated health view.The Withings Body Scan smart scales are a notable addition to my health routine. Their ease of use is clear from the start; the scales connect seamlessly, sending all details straight to the app without requiring my phone to be present. While all bioimpedance technology has its known caveats, the readings from the Body Scan feel consistent and provide useful feedback for tracking progress.What distinguishes these scales is the volume of valuable health metrics they capture. Having these diverse data points available to monitor is certainly helpful. This synergy with my Withings ScanWatch Nova is particularly beneficial. The combination of data from both the scales and the watch creates a more comprehensive health analysis, all conveniently housed within the insightful Withings app. This integrated approach has contributed to a better understanding of my health markers and potential areas for improvement.Aesthetically and tactilely, the Body Scan scales align well with the premium feel of other Withings products. They present as solid and well-made, reinforcing the sense of a quality investment in well-being.

It was time to get a new scale in our household. First of all we had to start looking after these WFH wight gains and secondly our former scale was just too old, inaccurate. We decided to try one of these new digital scales with wifi connectivity. And even though Withings wasn’t a familiar brand to us this seemed to be one of the more upscale brand to go to, after all it was one of the products suggested on the Apple site. This also implied a steep 600% premium in price compared to the average bathroom scale - we could have spent £20 on an average digital scale rather than the $130 we paid for this premium model in the Withings range. Was it worth such a mark up?Well the scale is stylish, and it feels quite durable and of high quality. Also its presentation, given the packaging is good. This simply makes it a nice, proper gift as well.Then in terms of ease of use and connectivity I would also rank it high. It works straight out of the box. And if you are willing to download the app and spend a few extra minutes to fill out a few basic data you are set up in just a few minutes. I should say that we found it a little hard to set up family profiles. The scale detects different family members bases on their body measurements, which is great. However only one person can keep these extra data on their digital device and as far as we understand you can’t share it in a family group. So we had duplicate profiles for our children initially before we erased the extra one, which was confusing to and the and the scale. For the rest the app is great and straightforward, its can share data with other health apps, and historic data can be manually added. If you wish to be confronted with the truth you can get weekly reports by email. The scale automatically sends new data to your mobile device within a few minutes. The battery lasts for months, we use the scale daily a couple fo times and we haven’t had to recharge for the past 3 months.Is it accurate? I guess so but I found there is a 300 - 400 gram bounce when you step on it before it pins down your weight and therefore daily variation depending on your posture, and time of measurement - I usually take my weight and body measurement once a day straigth out of bed.Now, this premium version of the scale is also capable to do a full body measurement. In fact is does the whole sequence whenever you step on it, including a weather report. I lost interest after using those functions once. Mostly because I’m in a rush in the morning and it takes about a minutes to go through everything. But there is a BMI, heart rate, body fat measuring ect. I still find that the BMI is off, or based on a different calculation that I would otherwise get to (its too high). On the other hand, one of our children has a heart condition, so the heart rate measure feature is a helpful addition. So looking back we probably shouldn’t have paid for these extra features, but its nice to have. And overall this is a good product that we like and would recommend.

I'd been hoping to use these scales to make a bit more sense of weight loss plateaus and how it relates to body fat/ muscle / water retention.However, the results of the scale are just all over the place going up and down with no pattern. If anything it's left me more confused than I was before. Here's some "results" after 14 days of using the scales (I don't believe them, and neither should you, but these are what I got): over the 14 days I've lost 4.4pounds of fat and gained 2.5pounds of muscle (for reference, a realistic amount of muscle to gain in 2 weeks is 0.5-1pounds, a realistic amount of fat to loose is 1-4 pounds. I'm in no way dieting or exercising in any extreme way). In one individual day I lost 4.3 pounds of body fat - and on that same day gained 2.7 pounds of muscle. On another day I gained almost a pound of body fat in my arms??? (this is not where my fat goes, believe me...). Oh and the muscle I gained? according to the app almost all in my torso - very peculiar since I keep not doing core exercises, and most of my training is focused towards legs with some occasional arm exercises.It's very consistently showing me as underhydrated. I drink anywhere between 2.5-4l of water in a day, pee very frequently and my urine is a very pale colour - so in other words, zero signs of dehydration. I've weighed consistently in the morning, at the same time, wearing the same clothes, after going to the loo. I don't drink alcohol or have caffeine but of course I do work out more on some days than others.I've also had some issues with the user interface - at some point it congratulated me for having lost 2 stone and 11 pounds on the program (no clue where it got that from - the difference between the two extremes in those two weeks was 3.9 pounds). Also some graphs got all clumped together and were unreadable.Another thing they don't really advertise is that to use all the features of the scale you need to wear some clothes (since if body parts eg legs are touching each other the readings are invalid), and you have to keep standing on them for well over 30 seconds (if you look at their explanations why results vary they say that if you move while the process is ongoing that may invalidate the results - but i challenge you to stand perfectly still while holding the weird arm thingy for 30 seconds. even just breathing will make you move ever so slightly). So now in order to try to get consistent results, I'm changing into a "weighing outfit" in the morning, standing on them for about 45 seconds, then changing back out of it. Now this would be worth it if the results were consistent, but they're simply not so it's just a huge waste of time. With the amount of time this takes, I could just get my £1 measuring tape and take all my body measurements at least every other day, which would be more consistent and probably give me a better idea of what's going on.On the upside - I had no issues with the Nerve Health measurement as others reported (finally an advantage of sweaty feet!).Overall a very expensive gadget that did not provide any value for me. I don't know if it just doesn't know how to deal with my (obese) body type and if it works better with more "normal" bodies, if I just got a dud, or if it really just is that bad.