- The link with myfitnesspal doesn't work. Garmin support told me to contact Myfitnesspal support. Of course Myfitnesspal first told me to contact Garmin support, then after I complained they said that they would look into it. I can't spend that much time writing emails and explaining the problem again and again.
- Single measurement per day. With my manual scale I like, out of curiosity, to weight myself sometimes in the evening or after a workout, but because of how the Garmin backend is set up, I cannot do that anymore, otherwise I'll lose the "official" morning measurement. My wife says that this scale is a "bully" and doesn't let you do what you want.
- The biggest issue I have by far though, is related to the bodyfat measurements. They are very unconvincing. Basically the scale only spit out only 3 numbers in 15 days. Every time my weight was between 65.5kg and 66.5kg, the scale measured 13.3%, exactly this number. When my weight was above 66.5kg the scale gave me exactly 14.2% every time. The one time my weight fluctuated below 66.5kg, the scale gave me a crazy 10.2% (I wish it was close to reality), that is a huge day to day variation. Keep in my that I've been using a Omron HBF-514C for years and I manually logged the weight every day and in years the Omron never gave me a 3% day to day bodyfat variation. Also, the trend does not make sense. For example from one day to another, if you gain 0.5kg, it is obviously water retention. That means that the body fat mass is pretty much the same, so the bodyfat % should go down. That's exactly the trend I get from the Omron scale, while the Garmin scale either gives me the same % (the dreaded 13.3%), or it shoots up to 14.2%, and that makes no sense. It is almost like it doesn't really measure anything beside weight. Maybe firmware updates will improve that, but for now body fat readings from the Garmin scale are not useful to me. Take into account that apart from using the Omron scale for years every day, I also got a DEXA scan a few months back, to get a golden standard measurement (came out 2% higher than Omron), so I'm very acquainted on how body fat readings should trend in order to make sense.
All in all, this $150 cloud connected scale was a significant downgrade in term of tracking my health and a lot more work than just using my $60 Omron scale and spending one minute to write the numbers down from the display.
If Garmin improves the product (and the cloud service that comes with it) or comes out with a new model next year, I'll give it a shot again, but for now I can't recommend this scale for serious tracking, especially for people who count calories, like myself.