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 Very Informative Aug 24, 2010
You get a lot of information that will allow you to adjust the way you eat and exercise to keep your body in the shape you want.
Most people will be satisfied with just the numbers in their overall weight but knowing whether you are losing fat or muscle when dieting will make the difference in your regaining or not regaining. I find it very helpful in keeping that under control. I am not sure if I am just not operating it correctly but sure wish it would store my readings so that I could look back and see my full progress.
 Negative surprises from day one Aug 02, 2010
I had a bad experience with the product from the moment I unwrapped the packaging: it needed a 9V battery that didn't come included. I can understand this for a cheap toy, but this is one of the more expensive scales, so not having everything included is not cool, in my book.
I'm not sure how much I can trust the scale. It told me I had the same weight for an entire week, whether I weighed myself day or night. I find that very hard to believe, since the scale is supposed to be accurate to within 0.1 pound.
If the scale's measurements are actually good (something I didn't verify yet), I'd be impressed by its ability to figure out my weight instantaneously.
 A Fake Scale Aug 01, 2010
I've owned this scale for something like a year -- got it on a warranty exchange when I returned to Taylor another of its scales. The behavior of both scales has proven consistently awful. While the display offers precision to two-tenths of a pound, it is profoundly inaccurate. Step off the scale, then carry a glass or two of water onto it with you, and more often than not the weight will not differ. Step on and off with a 25-pound dumbbell, and when you step back on without the dumbbell your weight will suddenly be up by a pound or two. The scale apparently desires to show consistency in your weight -- even when your weight is inconsistent -- until you stun (like with a 25-pound dumbbell). In theory the scale will self-recalibrate if you momentarily step lightly on it with one foot, but for the most part this scale is measuring from its imagination.
I'm impressed by reviewers who claim this scale is accurate. I wonder to what degree of precision they are making that declaration, and against what reliable measure. If some individual scales of this model truly are accurate -- say against a balance beam scale, precise to say a half-pound -- then it would be helpful to know so the rest of us can buy postage to return our inaccurate ones to Taylor on their lifetime warranty. (The problem with the warranty is you just get another Taylor scale.)
As for the body fat feature, even on a good quality scale of this sort there's probably not much one should expect. I tried using it for a while -- dampened my feet, made sure my thighs, knees, whatever, weren't touching, same time of day, always first thing in the morning so I wasn't terribly dehydrated from exercise. I understood that the reading would not be true, but Taylor claimed it would still be consistent from one time to the next ... assuming you weigh yourself the same time of day, like first thing in the morning when your chemistry is supposedly the same from day to day. I experienced no consistency at all with this scale. Here too, if there are owners who find the numbers reasonably consistent from day to day, I'd like to hear that in their reviews, hopefully after they've used the thing for at least a week.
Apparently Amazon insists that a product must receive at least one star -- I guess anything which exists beyond the imagination gets a minimal credit -- but I would give this product (and probably other Taylor electronic scales as well) a maximum score of zero if allowed. (There was a piece in today's news about a couple of fellows who wrapped blocks of wood in cardboard boxes and tried to sell them as laptops. So maybe Taylor deserves credit for packaging something which at least resembles the product it's supposed to be, even if it lacks the functionality.) My next scale will either have a spring in it or, better, be a balance beam. I (and most of us, I presume) don't need accuracy to the pound, but rather want relative consistency from day to day and week to week. By "consistency," I don't mean the same weight every day, as this scale seems to try to give, but a reading which is true relative to the reading the day before and the week after.
Don't buy this scale or you'll encourage Taylor to make more.
Works OK, but the BMI is def inaccurate Jun 29, 2010
I was excited to get this to start looking at my BMI and water weight but it is TERRIBLY disappointing, sometimes it tells me my BMI is 17.5% at a weight of 151, then it will say its 15% when my weight is 154... it makes no sense and it never seems to calculate it exactly, a complete waste. If I were you I'd just buy a nice digital scale that shows your weight exactly but forgo the BMI function, it simply doesnt work
Taylor Body Fat Scale Jun 06, 2010
Scale has lots of features; however, it is somewhat difficult to program and save your personal information. It is not very easy to decide whether to set the body fat to normal or to athletic. The setting will significantly affect the percentage of body fat.
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