ken—May 14, 2013
Rec'd 5/14/2013 today. Model ESBS-01/2013 Version. With this new updated-corrected version, tap once on scale, ONLY 0.0 stays on few seconds while calibrating--then screen goes dark. NOW, ready to weigh yourself. Whenever scale is moved, do the tap-0.0-calibrate again--weigh yourself after that. (also have Taylor digital from K-Mart, using 9 volt battery, that reads each next 1/2 pound.) CON: EatSmart came with four DEAD "aaa" HEAVY DUTY TRIAL ONLY BATTERIES-not even alkalines ! Disgraceful, EatSmart - How can an upscale company like yourself with basic to expensive scales, just throw in junk batteries? / Like kids' battery operated Xmas gifts--batteries not included, and nobody bought extras. / Compared scale readings between scales, which are between 1/2-1 pound apart at the most-Taylor same price. Checked for memory improperly resetting itself, by just giving last weight again, if less than 2-5 pound change, as reviews discuss. If I weigh 200 pounds, then grab 2 pound weight--I should be at 202...NOT 200 again, as reviews seem to say. I DO NOT find this problem. SO FAR - get consistent personal weight within 1 pound and I'm not moving scale. Moving scale makes no difference if you just reset to 0.0 /Temperature appears to affect readings on both electronic scales the same--1-2 pounds lower when colder by 10-20 degrees. After calling Taylor, they said how to fix my error weights, by a not-in-the-book resetting procedure-that worked. They also said their scale is affected slightly by temperature. SO, truthfully, ANY scale basically gives your weights over a period of time, so you finally will see a pattern of weight gain or loss--seeing a very accurate and consistent DAILY change, you might not notice. Taylor now my backup, because it's few years older, and the EatSmart is quite updated. Glad both working, but only bought EatSmart because Taylor got the errors problem. EatSmart screen remains dark 1 in 30+ times, but just the 1st weight attempt--lightly step on it the same every time. Blue numbers easy to read in bright conditions--better than the red digit Taylor. First sight of tempered glass platform made me think---ME, step on glass to get weight---eeek---LOL. The 4 aaa batteries much better than those old type 9 volt batteries that even cost more. 400 pound scale limit too high, as a smaller range would give better accuracy....be it a thermometer or any measuring device. Buy this bottom of the line EatSmart, but be sure you have 4 new aaa batteries within grasp ! Seems they have updated to correct problems listed in amazon reviews. with this 2013 version. It's true, once 0.0 calibrated and not moved, just step on it---I say this EatSmart is weigh-in accurate. I take away 1 star because of company supplying dead batteries. Weigh at same time of day, every weighing. UPDATE 6/13/2013 - working very good--reads same as my other scale, basically. ---UPDATE 8/5/2013 - My old Taylor shows error too often now, so retired it--but does still eventually show a correct reading ! My EatSmart excellent and no battery problem. The 9volt Taylor battery was always going dead every month or so. Surely, this is the pick of the best at Amazon, still. UPDATE UPDATE .... Works Great......but, seems to think I'm gaining weight----naw, can't really be......AND TO TOP OFF THINGS - my waist tape measure says my waist is bigger ! UPDATE 6/27/2014 -- Scale has been showing less weight and a new tape measure shows a smaller waist measurement, SO don't know why it used to pick on me, showing more weight...lol. ANYWAY....scale works like new, still. Knowing if my weight is going up or down a small amount, is more important than the actual weight....readings are accurate in small degrees. / I'd like to say, this scale SHOULD BE rated at 4 stars.... because it came with dead battery ! UPDATE UPDATE 2/2/2017 ---- 3 1/2 years later, works like new Read more
Pastor B—December 22, 2025
This morning when I stepped on this scale it didn't work. Ah, I thought, it's finally died. I didn't remember when I had bought it (in September of 2017), but I knew that it was a long time ago. So, I decided to buy another of the same model. I've had great experience with "Eat Smart," with this scale and with their digital Kitchen scale, so that seemed to be a no brainer. I found the old order and was about to buy it again when I thought "Maybe the batteries have died." That's not a common occurrence. I've changed them twice (I think) since I got the scale. Well, I hate to say it, but that thought lost Eat Smart a sale. The scale works fine now. I'm pretty amazed at the quality of their product. Thanks! Apparently, I didn't write a review when I first got the scale. My bad. I'm glad to fix that oversight now. The scale is very accurate, to two tenths of a pound. If I weight myself, step off the scale and step back on the same weight comes back up. The display is very easy to read. Read more
J—October 27, 2015
UPDATE 2015-11-11: I've skimmed through reviews and there seem to be many negative reviews regarding accuracy/consistency. One very important thing to note is the memory effect which you're probably accustomed to. The other thing to note is that yes, you absolutely SHOULD be fluctuating in weight by a few pounds throughout the day. People forget how much bathroom breaks and intake account for. A gallon of water is about 8.3 pounds. If you weigh yourself, go for an intense 1 hour run, then chug a 32 ounce bottle of Gatorade when you get home and weigh again, expect to instantly weigh about 2 pounds heavier despite "burning calories" when using this scale. It may sound gross, but unless you know how much your personal bladder can hold or how much you urinate at a particular trip to the bathroom, you'll never be close to gauging how much weight you'll lose after you urinate...not to mention having a BM. If you google "average human bladder capacity" or similar, you'll see what someone estimated. I rarely ever go less than about 20 ounces, and one time I couldn't go for almost a whole day, and I was miserable but also curious. I went into a huge cup, marked with permanent marker, emptied, then carefully filled back up to the line from a measuring cup--63 ounces. That means that if I went in the morning, weighed myself, didn't urinate for hours and hours while also drinking fluids and food, I would've gained at least 4 pounds based on the expelled fluids alone, and maybe a pound or two more from fluid intake, and a couple pounds from food. So, yes, expect to fluctuate if your old digital scale held strong throughout the day--it's the memory effect, and you have definitive reasons to gain and lose many pounds throughout the day. If you drink a 16 ounce bottle of water, that's an instant pound; a 20 ounce bottle of soda, that's about 1.25 pounds; if you're from Texas and get a triple meat Whataburger with cheese, veggies, and fries, bam...that's about two pounds. I can eat a lot with my mwtabolism, so if I eat a 40 ounce Swanson family dinner and have a 32 ounce Gatorade, that's a guaranteed 6.5 pounds I put into my body in half an hour. So, don't be angry at the scale if it's not on a flat surface because a slight variation on a seemingly level surface can make it seem highly inaccurate, because unlike cheap digital scales, this one uses the four corners for measurements. Also, don't be angry because your weight often fluctuates throughout the day by a few, or many, pounds--if it doesn't, something is very wrong with your fluid and food intake and your bathroom routine, or your scale is being too polite to you. Quick, accurate readings. It's easy to track my gaining progress with the high-resolution. This does not suffer from the "memory-effect" that I've found in other digital scales. If I pick up my phone and wallet, or take my shoes off, it registers a very small change, and if I undo that change, it goes right back to the original number, as it should. It can't be tricked, unlike other digital scales as you'll see below. OTHER, inaccurate scales (with poorly made gauges, or too few gauges) use some type of memory effect to give the illusion of consistency that you weigh the same if you step off and back on. If you give it a small change such as holding a phone and wallet, it stays the same--if within whatever preset range of allowed variability, it uses the previous weight measurement from memory to hide its inconsistency. If you give it a large change in weight--use only half of your weight or have a different person step on--and let it register the new weight, then step back in the same manner as you did the first time, it yields a significant difference from your original measurement, only 30 seconds prior. Try this on your current scale and see if it shows you a different weight--you have to trick the scale with a vast weight change, as I mentioned, to expose a poor scale's inconsistency. With your current scale, what you may have thought was an inability to gain or lose weight on a daily basis may just be your scale utilizing this "memory effect", and to that end, even if you trick it, you'll never know what your weight is with accuracy, because it can have one, two, or more pounds of variability. I don't know what else to call it, so I've been using that term for a few years once I noticed how badly some digital scales can misrepresent measurements. It's deception, and testing for the "memory effect" will let you know if you can or can't trust your scale. Some may store a few measurements in memory, so cycle it a few times with many different readings to be sure. I prefer putting one foot on and holding steady with about half of my weight, since it's about a 50% change, which can expose the memory effect, or expose poor electronics that don't account for temperature change of exercising the metal used to measure changes in conductivity, because exercising the components will slightly warm them up, which alters the material's conductivity/resistance. Toss any digital scale it into your refrigerator for 6 hours, and you'll see what I mean. One other digital scale that I used appeared to have fixed measurements in permanent memory (since people will often benchmark their scales with weights), such as 20, 25, 35, or 45 pounds, because it would read a 45 pound plate dead even at 45.0 pounds, every time, even when wiping out the memory effect, and if I used 45 pounds and something that was exactly one pound, it would still, wrongly, display 45.0 because it allows for some variability to account for the inconsistent measurements. Using a 45 pound plate with and without my own weight, showcased a variability of +/- ~2 pounds, so that (and the 45+1=45.0 measurement) is how I determined that there were fixed, static weights permanently stored so that if it's benchmarked in a simple manner, it lies. To save costs, poor craftsmanship can be easily be offset with simple programming or circuiting, which is a one-time cost, and then cheaper/fewer components can be used in the scale which saves manufacturing costs, over and over again. It's pretty irritating. The bottom line is that this is digital scale is excellent for the price. EXCELLENT. I took a risk since other scales around this price, or more, have suffered from the "memory effect" in one or more ways, but I can't trick this scale--it's great. What you may have thought was "great for the price" with your other digital scales could be discounted if you try to trick it. Read more
