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Weight Watchers Glass LCD Precision Electronic Scale
by hopey123
Seeing as my scales have been doing over time this week I thought I'd review them as I'm sure I'm not alone to having eaten too much over the Xmas and new year session. I've had some of these Weight Watchers scales for about 4 years now. They were on offer in Tesco's and seeing as about the third time I went shopping they still had some ... left on offer they jumped into my trolley. I think they were originally £29.99 if I remember rightly. Looking online now they are £19.99 in Tesco or about £25 with other online stores.
They were n a white box with the Weight watchers logo on them, I just wanted the scales as they look nice and modern, I'm not doing Weight Watchers. The older style scales I found difficult to use as would have to bend trying to read the dial and then it would move as I wasn't stood still etc. The reading on these is very clear and easy to see.
I was very careful with these at first and after each use they'd go back into the box but nowadays they remain on my toilet floor for regular use. I do remember thinking twice before buying them after they jumped into my trolley about the fact I would be standing on a piece of glass to weigh myself but I assure you they hold a lot of weight and even my then 24 stone father had tried them out.
The main glass panel is on four plastic stoppers and the figures reading panel, these keep the sales flat on the ground for use.
The control button for these is on the base and you can switch them to weigh in stones /pounds or in kilo /grams. I used to just use stones but my partner only uses kilos so I tend to keep them on that and have got used to that now. When you are ready to weigh yourself you need to tap the top of scales with your foot to bring them to life as when they go unused for approx 15 seconds they turn themselves off. When you stand on them you can see the figures climb up then take a few seconds to settle on the exact number and once they have decided if you've lost that extra kilo or not they will flash with the final weight. Repeat this method 2 or 3 times to convince yourself that you did read them correctly and they aren't lying lol.
I would recommend these and they are lasting well. They take the flat kind of batteries and I've only recently changed them for the first time since having them.
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Weight Watchers Slim Glass Analysis Scale
by louisechackett
A month ago I decided enough was enough in terms of avoiding the issue with how much I weigh. I was well aware that I had let myself go significantly and wanted to take steps to improve my weight, fitness and all round general health. I of course wanted to monitor my weight and when I came to use my old weight watchers scales I found ... that they were no longer working and so decided to replace them. I was very pleased with my scales previously and so decided to look to the weight watchers brand again on my look again catalogue where I spotted the slim glass analysis scale for £22.00 and decided to order them.
The scales came very quickly and were well packed in a sturdy cardboard box with a carry handle. Inside the box the scales are securely packed in to some extra cardboard so that they can't move around inside the box in transit because obviously being made of glass they are quite fragile. When I unpacked the scales I was very happy indeed with the look of the scales. Made from glass the scales were mainly see through apart from some silver panels and the screen which would tell you your weight and details and so I felt they would look very stylish in my bathroom.
There are two ways in which you can use these scales and you can opt to have them just measure your weight or if you input a few details it will give you a body analysis reading which will also tell you your BMI, body fat, body water and bone mass readings. I used the scales in both ways but usually opted to just step on them to be weighed quickly in the morning as opposed to having a full reading. Inputting the data required for the body analysis was quite complicated despite there being instructions in the manual provided but it basically involves pressing some of the buttons above the LCD display to pop in your height, age, sex and such like. You can input this data for up to four people where as on my last scales I am pretty sure you could do it for more than four people but to be honest this isn't really an issue for me as there is only me who would really want all of my details popping in the scales as my son doesn't need that kind of information being that he is only a child.
A useful feature with these scales is that they can be used to give you a weight in either stones, kilograms or pounds just by flicking a switch on the bottom of the scale. They can measure people up to 28 stone 8lb which I am nowhere near and so these scales were suitable for my needs. They also measure your weight in quite small amounts and so sometimes it would tell me I had lost a quarter of a pound in weight! The LCD screen which displays your information is 1.5" but plenty big enough to see the reading as the numbers on it are quite large and so I was never leaning down trying to see a reading or anything.
All in all you are probably thinking that these scales sound great! They look lovely and stylish in my opinion, they measure other things as well as just your weight and the LCD display works well. However, I no longer have these scales because after two weeks I had to send them back to the catalogue as they were just completely inaccurate all of the time. I placed the scales in my bathroom and made sure that they were on a flat area and as my bathroom has laminate flooring there was no issue with the carpet interfering with the weight reading as can sometimes happen. When I stepped on the scales though more than half of the time it just wouldn't register that I had stepped on and so I would need to lift the scales to allow the zero's on the LCD to flash before getting on to weigh myself. This issue, annoying as it was, I think I could have lived with but then there was the matter of the scales just not weighing consistently or accurately. Depending on the mood of the scale it would weigh me at anything up to half a stone either heavier or lighter than I actually am over the course of just a couple of minutes. It did the same with my sisters weight and actually added half a stone on to her minutes after she had been to the gym and been weighed there. Had I been constantly moving the scales around or moving about on the scales as I was being weighed I would have thought that perhaps it was my own fault because the scales are really meant to be kept in the same place for accurate readings but I followed all of the advice in the manual that came with the scales and still had issues.
Given that I paid £22 for the scales I decided there was no way I was happy paying that kind of money for something which I wasn't really sure was going to give me an accurate reading, or certainly which reading would be accurate at least and so I decided to contact the catalogue with my concerns and arrange to send them back so I now go to the swimming baths to get weighed each week as these seem more accurate.
I was left really disappointed with this product especially because I had had such a positive experience with the last set of weight watchers scales I had bought. The design of these scales is made to look great but in my opinion performance just doesn't live up to the look of them and so I cannot give them my recommendation at all.
Thank you for reading my review!
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Weight Watchers Precision Body Analyser Scale
by rufusdog
I started on a diet about 8 weeks ago and wanted some scales so I could keep an eye on my weight and check how much I have lost. I had some Amazon vouchers so had a look on there and found this set by Weightwatchers. I thought I would give them a try as they do not just measure your weight but also measure your bmi and body fat as ... well.
I have never had electronic scales before, in fact I have not had bathroom scales for years and the last ones we had were very heavy where you step on and the top goes down so I was really surprised when the box was delivered and it was so light in weight. I took the scales out and saw that they were quite thin and really light to pick up, I could not imagine how on earth they worked.
The first thing you have to do is to remove a tab from behind the battery underneath the scales so that the battery can connect and start working. When I pulled the tab out the battery fell out and it wouldn't go back in again, it just kept pinging out even when I put the cover back on and I couldn't get the scales to work at all so I ended up ringing the company up who sent them and they sent me out some more. The next set was much better and the tab came out and the battery stayed put.
When you first use the scales you can put in your age, sex, height and it can then keep your details so when you go on you can get the scales to check your fat and bmi. There are some shiny silver circles on the scales that you need to place your bare feet on for them to work. I set this up but have not used it again yet, probably because I have such a lot of weight to lose I can see for myself that my BMI is no where near where it should be yet. When you use the scales if you want to check any of these bits you can press the buttons with your toes to switch over from one thing to the other and you can put in the details for quite a few different people, I think it is ten from memory.
You can set the scales by flicking a switch underneath as to whether you want it to come up in stones/pounds, just pounds, or in kilos.
The numbers on the scales are quite large and easy to read when I am standing up straight, the only thing is they have the quarter pounds which come up at the side and they are not in such a dark font (is it called a font on electronic scales?) and I can't read them when I am standing up so I am just going by the large dark numbers.
To switch on the scales is also a bit of a problem, it has a sticker on the scales at the bottom in the middle which says press here to switch on, but if you press there nothing happens. In the instruction booklet it says press in the centre of the scales which is not where the sticker is but pressing there doesn't turn them on either. I have found the only way I can get them to come on is when they are on the floor I tread slightly on the back of them and they tip up slightly and when they bang down on the floor again they come on. I have not had any trouble with them coming on by doing this and wonder if this is what they mean by pressing here as there doesn't seem to be anything to actually press.
Apart from those two problems I have found the scales really easy to use and I can keep a steady watch on my weight. I bought the scales on Amazon and they cost me £20 to buy but I have just had a look and they have gone up to nearly £30 on there now from the same seller ( Southern Electric). You can get them from Argos for a lot cheaper than this.
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