Conair TH402 Thinner? Digital Body Fat and Body Water Scale

 (2 customer reviews)

I've had this scale for about three years now. When I first purchased it, what attracted me was the body fat and water weight calculator. However, readings are incredibly untrustworthy. For instance, it gives me two very different weights (+/- 3 pounds) within a 5 minute time frame more often than it should. After a particularly successful week at the gym and hiking in a local park, plus adopting and maintaining healthy eating habits, I was heartbroken to see this morning that I'd magically gained over 5 pounds in less than 48 hours. I stepped on several times, one right after the other, and received the same weight reading each time. I figured it was accurate... until I stepped on again 10 minutes later and had magically lost 0.6 pounds! Not only does the weight reading fluctuate, but the body fat calculations move accordingly, and "H2O" seems fairly useless. I suggest going with a different scale. This one might be accurate sometimes, but Lord knows when, and you'll drive...Read more

I was attracted to this scale because of its ability to tell you your body fat and water weight. But the main reason I bought the scale is to keep track of my pounds. When you tap on the scale it goes through this long process of telling you your weight, age, height. Then finally you get to step on the scale. And once it figures out how much you weigh you better be paying attention because it gives you the number in a flash. A flash so fast that you aren't even sure what the number was. But then it goes through this long process of showing you your body fat and water weight twice. You have to wait for that process to be over in order to tap the scale again in order to weigh yourself a second time so you can see if the number you thought you saw for your pounds was right.

The scale has always done this, I should have taken it back when I first bought it and I didn't. I tried to reset it but the buttons are stuck. All it does now is flash P-01. The directions say if you want...Read more