you may wat to save a cheap lunch by buying it on amazon
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You’re the best!
I’m now having my BFF discuss all the pros and cons … and Wyze is an excellent find, as you know!
He also brought up these models for consideration… by chance, did you evaluate them?
InBody H30
Tanita RD-545
RENPHO MorphoScan Nova
He’s saying some of these MIGHT be better to track trends in lower body mass people… but I dunno… no shock, but my bff keeps changing his mind!
Wouldn’t touch any of these. Bad reviews and very expensive. I never buy anything that has less than a solid 4 star review and at least over 100 reviews. If you want something different than Waze, and very cheap with great reviews here:
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So.
Many.
Options.
Ok, I’m sending these to Claude… and ha, it never occured to me to look at anything but Withings… one of these other options will help pay for the Apple watch I want to get in the fall… and no, I don’t want to wear a watch, but I now know multiple people who had it detect afib!
have three of them, and all useless IMo. Any smartwatch that needs charging daily I wouldn’t touch with my worst enemy’s money LOL. I’m beyond shocked that apple, Samsung and other big names are still selling watches with only 24 h battery capacity when there are other manufacturers having watches that last from 7 days to one month. Pathetic of apple
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I have a 1st or 2nd gen i haven’t put on in years… I’m only interested in the safety features at this point… afib or if i should have an accident and ‘can’t get up’
I doubt I’d wear it all the time, but if I’m on a hike etc
Actually, I love them and would wear them daily no problem but the fact that they need to be charged daily is such an aggravating point to me, it’s appalling they haven’t come up with one that last at least 7 days. You have some big names such as Garmin etc, that have 10 days+ battery life and I don’t know what the hell is apple waiting for. I think it is their rigid/stupid mentality of not conforming with customer demands fast enough. I remember same thing with the screen size when apple refused to make a large screen iPhone (their CEO kept saying a phone is not a computer and doesn’t need to have a large screen_) until they started losing market share rapidly and all the sudden all their models become XL lol. I wish nobody bought an apple watch, so they get the message that having a large battery is very important to consumers. Believe it or not I was so pissed that I kept emailing their CFO and CEO demanding they start making large screen iPhone sizes or they will dissapear. . it took them couple years or so to catch up to what people wanted, but they finally got the message and did the right thing. I hope same happens with the watches and battery life. I would definitely buy and wear one if it provided at least 7 days battery time.
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Ha, on that note, the reason I never loved my Apple Watch because back in the day, I didn’t always have reading glasses with me and the screen was too small!!! But now that I’m old, I have them with me 24/7!!! A watch is now back in play :).
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I tried FitBit’s Aria 2, and an Omron scale with handles, which I ordered from Japan. Both of these wildly overestimated my BF%, and the Omron was expensive. I’m currently happily using Withings Body Smart and have done so for the last two years. During that time, I’ve had two DeXA scans from two different providers. Both times, the Withings measures were 1% of BF greater than the DeXA values. Interestingly, weighing myself multiple times once after the other can produce readings with .5 to 1% BF variance, so if I get a reading that seems off, I take a few more and select the one that’s closest to yesterday’s values. YMMV, perhaps accuracy is related to body type. For reference, I’m around 16% BF and slightly muscular. I also like Withings software: setup is easy, the UI is decent, and it integrates nicely with Cronometer, which I use for nutritional tracking. Bottom line is, Withings Body Smart is an easy way to track directionally correct BF values if I manage its variance with occasional multiple measurements. It’s not a precise measurement, but even DeXA isn’t. It’s good enough to know if I’m trending in the right direction.
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Thanks for this great feedback! It’s really neat to hear it will work with cronometer!!
Interesting to hear how accurate your model is without having handles… I was assuming those added a lot more accuracy, but your results say otherwise.
@ageless64 I love cronometer but don’t use it often enough… it got me thinking, I wonder if AI can track my meals in an easier way…
The source for the recipe I used provided the nutritional breakdown (probably from AI!), so I thought I’d see how closely Claude could do.
I haven’t tried it yet, but Claude also said I could show a photo of my meal and he can estimate a portion size and nutrients.
Here is the result
“Here’s a detailed nutritional breakdown for one serving of the complete meal (1/4 of the full recipe):A few highlights worth noting:
Protein powerhouse for a vegan meal — 27g per serving is impressive, coming almost entirely from the extra-firm tofu in the ricotta. That’s comparable to a chicken breast serving.
Micronutrient standouts:
- Vitamin K is very high (~175% DV) thanks to the spinach and basil
- Vitamin A is strong (~56% DV) from spinach and tomatoes
- Iron is solid (~30% DV) — the lemon juice in the ricotta actually helps your body absorb the plant-based (non-heme) iron more effectively
- Folate (~35% DV) from the spinach is a nice bonus
Sodium is the one to watch at ~920mg (~40% DV), mainly from the kosher salt across all three components and the miso in the ricotta. Easy to reduce by going lighter on salt in the tomato sauce.
Fat quality is excellent — about 77% unsaturated, coming from olive oil and tofu. Very little saturated fat for a creamy pasta dish.
All figures are estimates since exact amounts of salt, lemon juice, and olive oil vary by cook, but these should be quite close.
From the recipe website:
EDIT:
I have been playing and my mind has been blown!!! I think this AI thing is gonna catch on 
I still had some nutrients I needed to hit for the day, so Claude automatically presented a recipe! I said I’m not in the mood to cook and will make a protein shake, just tell me how many strawberries, chia seeds and nuts I should add to get me as close to closing out my goals for the day… it recommend exactly how many almonds, walnuts etc…
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