The scales that I ordered from Amazon that haven't shipped yet arrived on Friday and were waiting for me when I returned home on Saturday afternoon. The two forty page manuals looked impressive, although in reality, each had only half a dozen pages of instructions that were then repeated in seven Western European languages. The scale itself, however, was similar enough to my old model that I was able to quickly set it up without needing to consult the instructions.
It was late in the day when I took my first reading so the readings will be a bit off from subsequent readings which I intend to make every morning just after waking up. I weighed myself twice and got matching weights both times (which also matched the weight on my old scales) so I will considered basic weight measurements fairly accurate. There was a swing of a few percentage points in the fat and water percentages, so I won't consider any of the other measurements authoritative but watching the trends should be fun. My old scale also measured fat percentage and itsmy measurement was significantly higher than the new scale's, increasing my suspicions of the accuracy of these secondary measurements.
And so I have my starting point for measuring my body's composition in nine different areas. It appears that I have the metabolism of a senior citizen and so should probably start increasing my activity levels. And unlike Cartman's assertion that "I'm not fat, I'm just big boned", I have evidence that I am both fat and big boned.
