My new scale seems to give me a wildly different reading than my old one. I was previously using a Weight Guru's scale which gave me a body fat percentage between 18 and 19 percent which seems reasonable given my overall weight and fitness level. The new Garmin scale shows me over 26% body fat. Both scales show identical weight so what gives with the wild body fat numbers?
Hello all. We do have an open case for this report. If you would like to be added to this report, please tag me and I will email you for some additional information.
Thank you for the continued discussion and we are continuing to look into reports of fluctuations/discrepancy in body fat percentage. However, we need to be cautious of any changes as not to disrupt the…
Please see the 3.00 software update for this device which was just released and addresses this disruption. This software release should be available to all users at this time.
If you are having difficulty…
Wow, you called it. I changed my birthday and the body fat % went down to 19% from 26. If changing my birthday changes the body fat % then we are not really measuring body fat. 19% should be 19% at any…
To Kevin,
This:
"To formally submit this feature request, please use the link below:
https://www.garmin.com/en-US/forms/ideas/"
Is pathetic.
This was marketed as a working feature, we shouldn…
