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> smart body weight scales

My experience with their index scale is that it's garbage for anything other than weight.

Agree with everything else you say though.

I had a similar experience until I learned about the importance of setting a correct Activity Class. Don't think that's actually even in the manual. https://support.garmin.com/en-US/?faq=DJEru6ns626MZTh2kvUXZA

Yeah I’ve done that, I’ve had the scale for a couple years and the issue was never resolved. If you check the garmin forums for the 7% body fat bug you’ll see it’s an ongoing issue for a lot of folks.

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