My love-hate relationship with my Aria scale

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  • bwogilvie
    bwogilvie Posts: 2,130 Member
    realityfades wrote: »
    Doesn't the Aria emit a small electric current that goes through the whole body, though? That's what Fitbit says, anyway.

    The current takes the shortest path from left foot to right foot, so most of it goes just up to your pelvis and then back down. To get the whole body (except the head), you need electrodes for hands as well as feet. Professional Tanita scales have hand grips next to the display. The Tanita BC-1500 home scale has retractable hand electrodes. It also costs over $600!
  • Colorscheme
    Colorscheme Posts: 1,179 Member
    bwogilvie wrote: »
    realityfades wrote: »
    Doesn't the Aria emit a small electric current that goes through the whole body, though? That's what Fitbit says, anyway.

    The current takes the shortest path from left foot to right foot, so most of it goes just up to your pelvis and then back down. To get the whole body (except the head), you need electrodes for hands as well as feet. Professional Tanita scales have hand grips next to the display. The Tanita BC-1500 home scale has retractable hand electrodes. It also costs over $600!


    Ahhhhh, okay. I was under the impression the current goes through the whole body. That said, I take the body fat percentage as a guide and not exactly a definitive number. Since I am 5'7" and 158 lbs, I have no problem believing my body fat percentage is around 37. I'll see how it changes as I lose weight.
  • scolaris
    scolaris Posts: 2,145 Member
    Hahahaha... Yeah, I was always the girl using the men's room at concerts & bars too when there was a line for the ladies'... This was at least good for a laugh.
  • shadow2soul
    shadow2soul Posts: 7,692 Member
    Well I switched my profile to lean and it changed my reading from around 23% to around 20%.

    I don't seem to be getting the huge BF% discrepancy. I did however have something interesting with my actual weight. The readings were fluctuating 2 lbs in the short time between weigh ins. Now isn't that just strange. I'm going to just keep going with my first step on the and hope it's right.
  • Muscleflex79
    Muscleflex79 Posts: 1,917 Member
    I should say - my scale isn't aria (not sure of the brand off hand), but seems to be the same problem as the aria one! wish i found this male/female discrepancy years ago!
  • WalkingAlong
    WalkingAlong Posts: 4,926 Member
    I use the lower end Withings because it has no body fat percent.

    I also sometimes will weigh myself and not look at the display, just check Trendweight later on. That's another way you could ignore the BF%.

    I think the electrical impedence measures are known to be pretty inaccurate, aren't they?
  • amyepdx
    amyepdx Posts: 750 Member
    I just was weighed and measured with an Inbody which I've read is more accurate than hydrostatic. My BF measured 50.8 at 204.7. This morning before breakfast, lots of coffee (and of course naked and now I'm wearing a sweater with 4 heavy zippers), my Aria read 51.8 at 201.9. My confidence in the Aria increased greatly.
  • Sued0nim
    Sued0nim Posts: 17,456 Member
    amyepdx wrote: »
    I just was weighed and measured with an Inbody which I've read is more accurate than hydrostatic. My BF measured 50.8 at 204.7. This morning before breakfast, lots of coffee (and of course naked and now I'm wearing a sweater with 4 heavy zippers), my Aria read 51.8 at 201.9. My confidence in the Aria increased greatly.

    Sorry had to look that up

    It's still bio impedance

    I wouldn't trust it personally
  • amyepdx
    amyepdx Posts: 750 Member
    Then which way do you think it is inaccurate - too low or too high?

  • Sued0nim
    Sued0nim Posts: 17,456 Member
    edited October 2015
    amyepdx wrote: »
    Then which way do you think it is inaccurate - too low or too high?

    No idea

    Use it to judge progress though rather than an absolute and you'll be fine ...over time of course
  • brb2008
    brb2008 Posts: 406 Member
    Haha on my Aria one morning I lost 1.5lbs but gained 3% bf. Hmmmm..... I dont give either number too much thought on a daily basis, Im interested to see a trend over time.

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