Monitor your body water percentages and body fat with Tanita BF680W duo scale with function that estimates how many calories should be consumed.

Tanita BF680W Duo Scale Plus Body Fat Monitor with Athletic Mode and Body Water

Brand: Tanita
Feature

    * 2.25-inch, 2-line display shows weight and body fat percentage
    * Determines weight and estimates body fat and body water with safe, low-level electrical pulse
    * Stores data for two different people
    * 0.1% body fat graduations
    * 0.2-pound graduations

Product Description
Tanita BF680W Duo Scale Plus Body Fat Monitor with Athletic Mode can monitor both body fat and body water percentages. This scale also features a daily calorie intake function that estimates how many calories should be consumed in a 24-hour period for a user to maintain current weight level, and a dual recall feature that compares both.

Pregnant women should not use this monitor, and if you have a pacemaker or other internal electronic medical device, you should not use the body fat reading feature.

Tanita BF680W Duo Scale Plus Body Fat Monitor Review
I bought this scale because I was looking for a digital scale and also wanted to see if my body fat measurements that I have been taking with the Accu-Measure Body Fat Caliper was accurate. As a weight scale, the Tanita is excellent (and the reason I gave it as many as 3 stars) and I decided to keep it despite the body fat being off. I exercise regularly and I never get a reading below 18% bodyfat and varies between 18% and 20% – even in athletic mode. With my $7 calipers it tells me I am about 14.8% body fat. I was recently tested in a gym and I was at around 13-14% so the cheap plastic gadget did much better. So save your money – buy a plain old digital scale and the Accu-Measure Body Fat Caliper here at Amazon and with the savings go have a nice healthy dinner!

The Tanita BF680W Duo Scale is very simple to use and gives very consistent readings. I’ve been using it to monitor my body fat in addition to my weight. The key to getting consistent readings for body fat percentage definitely seems to be consistency in time of day the measurements are taken. I always weigh myself first thing in the morning. The scale stores height, age, and sex information for 2 different users. It is easy to program these functions. The body fat percentage indicator goes in .1 increments. This is definitely a nice feature that many of the cheaper units do not offer. This is a great, simple to use product that I would recommend for anyone interested in monitoring not just their weight but also their body fat and water percentages.

I tested the scale accuracy against the body fat monitor at a wellness fair and against several other scales. Using the normal setting the results were similar, about a 1% variance. But in the atheletic modethe results were way off. I workout about 5 to 6 days a week, cycling/lifting/running. It showed that I had 8.5% body fat. In the regular mode it shows about 18.5% body fat. Although I like the athletic mode results, I know that the regular mode is more realistic. I have wrote to Tanita but no response yet. My friends scale (same one) gives the same results. But overall I am satisfied with the scale. Homemedic or something like that has a scale that gives a little more information. So do your research.

I knew when I bought this that the body fat monitor would just be used a rough estimate to what the actual number was, so I wasn’t really altogether surprised when I found out that it was about 10% off. But, let’s face it, the sensors are in the feet which are a poor tester for body fat percentage. Great scale that will track your weights for two different people based on age and height scale. I was really impressed by that. I do like this scale but it might have more bells and whistles than is necessary and might lead people astray believing that they body fat is higher or lower and base their body fat percentage on this machine alone. If you buy this product, just know that it’s a good place to learn approximately where you are but to be sure go to the gym or a doctor to have it done correctly.

I have compared it to other scales, and appears to be quite accurate. The body water measurement does seem to reflect what I intuitively sense. The Body fat must strictly be a calculation – when my body water is up, the body fat goes down by 3-4 points, not possible!!! I’m not sure that any scale can get that right.

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