OmronBody Composition Monitor & Scale – Track Skeletal Muscle Mass Loss/Gain, Weight (up to 330 pounds), Visceral Fat, BMI and More (Non-Bluetooth)

Getting a wing scale is important to know your weight, especially when losing weight. What makes this weighing scale different from other scales is that it tells you your body fat mass index. So you may weigh 200 pounds but may have 48% of body fat, which is not good. It keeps a track of your recent body fat and also your resting metabolic rate. This device will not be as good as those $4000 machines you see in doctors offices, but at least you have a basic knowledge of what’s inside your body instead of guessing. Here’s another example. If the $4000 machine says my body fat mass index 34. This machine will show it as 38. So it’s not as accurate, but at least it’s close to it.

Great scale with no subscription, apps, or hassle. It measures and tracks the basics such as body fat, muscle percentage, weight, and visceral fat, but that’s all I wanted. Is it accurate? Don’t know for sure as I haven’t had a Dexa, but it seems to check out based on body fat photos and allows me to measure progress based on previous measurements.

Okay, i'm sure a lot of people will get discouraged the first time they step on this scale. In fact, I know they will. But sometimes people would rather ignore the truth than have it on some digital display in front of them. I researched different scales for a long time before finally choosing this one after my old reliable Health-O-Meter went to the weight loss graveyard. Looking back on it, I'm sort of ashamed I even took my Health-O-Meter's readings as reliable because they were horribly exaggerated from any other place I would weigh myself (like the Dr's office). After starting college and falling victim to tons of fat-laden fast food, my boyfriend and I were looking for a change. We weighed ourselves on our old scale and it said I was 131 (i'm under 5 foot so this was not as good for my health as my previous 118). We began an exercise and eating program, our new OMRON scale arrived, I weighed myself, and I was 136! What the hell?! Two weeks of me trying to get back in shape and it resulted in a 4 pound gain?! Nope, not at all. This was just the first time I accurately weighed myself. Realizing that the whole time I had weighed 10 pounds more than I had assumed (and my assumption was already 15 pounds higher than i'd like) explained a lot that I saw in the mirror. I had been putting off getting back to my healthy, natural self because despite the fact I could clearly see how bad it had gotten, the scale was telling me it wasn't that bad. Now the OMRON, a drill sergeant of a scale, was ready to be brutally honest and get me to my goal. I did the full composition test and was shocked at some of the numbers. Of course, I always take things with a slight grain of salt, but seeing that my "body age" was 39 (i'm about to be 20!!) and my boyfriend who is about to be 21 had a "body age" of 29 made us really sit and think about what we've been up to with our eating and sedentary lifestyle. Also, due to the awesome guest feature, I was able to test everyone who walked in the door (because for some reason this device just looks plain cool):teenagers, parents, and a whole different array of body shapes. Some of the parents were way out of their age range (a 69 year old body age on a middle aged woman and a teenage girl) so I can see where people might not want this hypothetical information rubbed in their faces. But that's just it- I was looking for something brutally honest and I found it. I've had this scale now for over a month and I'm beyond pleased. What was once a horrible reading of 39 years old for my 19 year old body has now become a mere 34 (that's the only way that I know of to lose 5 years off your age in a month!), all my other readings have gone significantly down (except my muscle which has gone UP!) and my boyfriend has been showing the same progress. The tracking feature on the scale allows me to see my progress over a period of time and definitely keeps me motivated and on track! And for those days where a reading suddenly spikes (got into those muffins a little late...) you can put it into better perspective than if you were to only have a regular weight reading. Only problem I've found whatsoever is that for one of the people we tried to weigh (he was a very muscular man of 340lbs) it just read error. The limit is 330 for all the body composition features so if you're above that, definitely go with another brand until you're in the range or this product is useless. Also make sure you use the OMRON on a flat surface where it's not rocking and that you following the right hand and foot sensor positions. After the first day, despite it's complicated appearance, it's the quickest part of my routine. What I just want to know is how some of my fellow reviewers in my age range are getting body ages of 16 and 15! I blame this on my assumption that being very short and well-endowed in certain areas makes my body fat reading a little screwy. I don't think they expect my height to have a cup size that I do. I also wish I could put in my frame size somewhere (perhaps in a future edition!) because I have a large frame and feel as though it changes some of my readings. Either way, this is the best scale i've ever purchased. Some people may not appreciate seeing the truth of what they're made up of, but I certainly do! It's like I have my own personal trainer to do a reading whenever I want! I wish anyone considering this scale tons of luck in reaching their goals and I hope you enjoy this product as much as I do! If nothing else, it's definitely a conversation piece.

Item did not come in Amazon packaging, was not sealed, and batteries were missing.The scale seems to work fine and seems to provide accurate consistent readings.

This is my third, Omron Body Composition with the handle. The first one is a 12 years until I dropped it a couple times moving. At the time I was marathoning and I was in women’s team and they wanted to know what I weigh especially monthly. I used all of the measurements the BMI visceral fat is very important, it is where toxins are stored.The second one I made a gift of, because I bought a scale that also did ECG’s. I sent it back, because this worked better and they have great customer service. BTW, my cat trained himself to get on and stay 9.0 That’s a pretty sensitive scale.

I like that it's accurate on weight. I have an old doctors office type scale and this gives me the same wt.I like that it measures body fat with upper and lower body. The problem is that it gives people who are extremely fit ridiculous fat/ muscle readings which means this scale has no idea of the difference between muscle and fat. I'm using it just to get a general idea of my percentages.The worst part for me: no Bluetooth means keeping track is harder. It supposedly saves tons of readings but what I find is it'll group like readings together 6 days of this wt, 7 days of this body fat, I don't like it at all. I'm stuck recording the reading everyday by hand to keep track of longer patterns. I wouldn't have minded if I could have just gotten all the readings in one day and filled in the blanks.So in the end I'm NOT happy with my purchase. I like the wt. accuracy, I don't like how difficult it makes finding trends and truthfully most of the information is pure BS (muscle%, fat%, visceral fat, age).I've always loved the Omeron B/P machines, it's sad that they have gone so for down in quality.

Buena calidad, lo compre hace dos años y me a servido mucho jajaj