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Aria doesn't provide accurate body fat readings

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‎08-29-2019 23:44 - last edited on ‎05-17-2021 06:10 by Fitbit Moderator

‎08-29-2019 23:44 - last edited on ‎05-17-2021 06:10 by Fitbit Moderator

I regularly measure my body fat percentage - about every three months - using different methods. Common for them all is that i average somewhere between 10 and 13 percent body fat. All except Aria, that every morning insist i have around 30 percent body fat. One should be able to turn off this feature on the scale, and prevent the scale to update my stats every morning with an obviously wrong fat percentage. Please advice on how to fix this.

 

 

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‎08-31-2019 23:12

‎08-31-2019 23:12

That messes me up, too. The more I workout, the higher the body fat percentage shows on the Aria 2.  That drives me nuts because I don't know if I'm losing water or muscle to cause that high fat percentage. They need to fix this. Water or hydration level has to account for some of the weight, but the Aria scale has no way to calculate hydration. BMI is not specific enough.  I put in a suggestion for them to update this scale to include water weight. It's not the first suggestion, someone did back in 2014. I got an email this week about it being considered, boy are they slow. Water calculation is not new technology. I don't know why they didn't include this feature when cheaper scales do.🤔

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‎09-04-2019 07:14

‎09-04-2019 07:14

I just got mine about a week ago but so far everytime i weigh less my body fat % is going up? Makes no sense.

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‎09-05-2019 14:00

In response to Niecy17

‎09-05-2019 14:00

To be honest, I'd be happy if they just made it possible to turn it off
altogether, and not update my stats daily with faulty data.
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‎09-09-2019 14:11 - last edited on ‎05-17-2021 06:08 by Fitbit Moderator

‎09-09-2019 14:11 - last edited on ‎05-17-2021 06:08 by Fitbit Moderator

I have lost over 10kg over the last six months, people who didn't know I was trying to lose weight have commented on the difference in how I look, I am wearing clothes a size smaller and my doctor tells me I am doing very well.

My Aria 2 scales tell me that my fat percentage has changed by less than 0.5%.

 

If you shed water your weight drops, but the percentage of you that is fat increases.

This is normal when you first start to exercise.

 

My problem is that having shed over 10% of my body mass over 6 months and dropped a clothes size, my Aria 2 scales tell me my body fat % has barely shifted, less than 0.5%.

 

I still have a ways to go. My BMI is 33.5 but the very good to excellent fitness rating just doesn't gell with a body fat percentage in the forties.

 

 

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