KevinPotts
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Being an early adopter all my life I've gone ahead and purchased this new set of weighing scales.
First the shock....Apple are the sole distributor of this their latest version in the UK and they cost me....wait for it....£139.99...what I hear you ask!!
Well let's see what I've got for my money:
1. Typical of Apple a beautifully boxed and packaged set of scales - not remotely important, but included for the sake of completeness.
2. A beautifully crafted set of scales - they should be at that price.
3. The scales are digital, came fully charged and are accompanied by a USB cable to plug in and charge up via any USB computer port. A single charge apparently lasts about a year...wow.... we'll see
4. Next you go to the App Store for in my case and download Withings Health Mate, which links wirelessly to your set of scales, captures all the data, plots it on a dash board and time line and does whizzy analysis.
5. There is a single button on the side of the scales which you press and hold at which point the digital screen springs into life.
6. The app recognised my scales and paired with it automatically the first time, found my wifi network and with my authority, locked on.
7. The app then found an upgrade and downloaded this seamlessly to the scales which restarted once this step, which took around 2 minutes, was completed.
8. I took the scales and iPhone to the bathroom, stood on them, allowed them to compose the various measurements (more of that in a moment) and instantly downloaded the data onto my phone app Health Mate.
9. I opened the app reviewed all the data and graphs etc, smiled as it was good news
10. The accompanying Quick Start guide suggested I weigh myself the same time, same place, at least 3 hours after food, each week. I think mine will be first thing when I do my FBG on Wed AM before the gym so my first regular weighing in will be tomorrow morning. I am simply counting today as the set up.
So a solid, accurate (according to all the reviews), attractive, technologically rich featured set of scales with accompanying mobile phone app analysis and storage of data
I really like my first encounter...other than the credit card statement showing me how much I spent on a set of "professional" scales
OK, so what data does it measure?:
1. Weight (kg, lbs, stone & lbs).
2. Weather forecast - I kid you not - what a stupid function
3. BMI.
4. Fat Mass %.
5. Water Mass %.
6. Bone Mass %
7. Standing Heart Rate - BPM
8. Pulse Wave Velocity (m/s) to measure cardio and arterial flexibility and health. I've read around PWV as I was initially sceptical and it appears this is pretty cutting edge technology used in a lot of medical scanning analysis to review arterial health.
Here's more info on the Withings site:
https://www.withings.com/uk/en/products/body-cardio
Verdict: Costly piece of kit, well made, simple to use, potentially very powerful metrics to help health management.
4 stars from me.... Would have been 5 if not for the price
And yes the screen grab is my very own data from my first test
Diagnosed 13/4/16: T2, no meds, HbA1c 53, FBG 12.6, Trigs 3.6, HDL .75, LDL 4.0, BP 169/95, 13st 8lbs, waist 34" (2012 - 17st 7lbs, w 42").
14/6/16: FBG AV 4.6, Trigs 1.5, HDL 2.0, LDL 3.0, BP 112/68, BPM 66, 11st 11lbs, waist 30". Lifelong migraines and hay fever gone.
Regime: 20g LCHF, run 1 mile daily, weekly fasting.
First the shock....Apple are the sole distributor of this their latest version in the UK and they cost me....wait for it....£139.99...what I hear you ask!!
Well let's see what I've got for my money:
1. Typical of Apple a beautifully boxed and packaged set of scales - not remotely important, but included for the sake of completeness.
2. A beautifully crafted set of scales - they should be at that price.
3. The scales are digital, came fully charged and are accompanied by a USB cable to plug in and charge up via any USB computer port. A single charge apparently lasts about a year...wow.... we'll see
4. Next you go to the App Store for in my case and download Withings Health Mate, which links wirelessly to your set of scales, captures all the data, plots it on a dash board and time line and does whizzy analysis.
5. There is a single button on the side of the scales which you press and hold at which point the digital screen springs into life.
6. The app recognised my scales and paired with it automatically the first time, found my wifi network and with my authority, locked on.
7. The app then found an upgrade and downloaded this seamlessly to the scales which restarted once this step, which took around 2 minutes, was completed.
8. I took the scales and iPhone to the bathroom, stood on them, allowed them to compose the various measurements (more of that in a moment) and instantly downloaded the data onto my phone app Health Mate.
9. I opened the app reviewed all the data and graphs etc, smiled as it was good news
10. The accompanying Quick Start guide suggested I weigh myself the same time, same place, at least 3 hours after food, each week. I think mine will be first thing when I do my FBG on Wed AM before the gym so my first regular weighing in will be tomorrow morning. I am simply counting today as the set up.
So a solid, accurate (according to all the reviews), attractive, technologically rich featured set of scales with accompanying mobile phone app analysis and storage of data
I really like my first encounter...other than the credit card statement showing me how much I spent on a set of "professional" scales
OK, so what data does it measure?:
1. Weight (kg, lbs, stone & lbs).
2. Weather forecast - I kid you not - what a stupid function
3. BMI.
4. Fat Mass %.
5. Water Mass %.
6. Bone Mass %
7. Standing Heart Rate - BPM
8. Pulse Wave Velocity (m/s) to measure cardio and arterial flexibility and health. I've read around PWV as I was initially sceptical and it appears this is pretty cutting edge technology used in a lot of medical scanning analysis to review arterial health.
Here's more info on the Withings site:
https://www.withings.com/uk/en/products/body-cardio
Verdict: Costly piece of kit, well made, simple to use, potentially very powerful metrics to help health management.
4 stars from me.... Would have been 5 if not for the price
And yes the screen grab is my very own data from my first test
Diagnosed 13/4/16: T2, no meds, HbA1c 53, FBG 12.6, Trigs 3.6, HDL .75, LDL 4.0, BP 169/95, 13st 8lbs, waist 34" (2012 - 17st 7lbs, w 42").
14/6/16: FBG AV 4.6, Trigs 1.5, HDL 2.0, LDL 3.0, BP 112/68, BPM 66, 11st 11lbs, waist 30". Lifelong migraines and hay fever gone.
Regime: 20g LCHF, run 1 mile daily, weekly fasting.
