Rowenta Br60xx Body Master Digital Scale Instruction Manual

ROWENTA BR60XX Body Master Digital Scale Instruction Manual

Important Safety Instructions

Usage Instructions

The drawings in this user’s manual are intended for illustration only and may slightly differ from the product.

Description

Tips on tracking your weight

To control your weight and figure, you must know your body composition (including your fat mass). Muscles and fat mass, which essentially make up your weight, are indispensable for life, and must be distributed evenly.

This distribution varies according to your sex, age and height.
Muscles allow you to carry out physical activities, lift objects and move without difficulty. The higher the muscle mass is, the more energy it consumes and thereby contributes to weight control.

Fat mass functions are insulation, protection and energy reserve. It is inert and stores surplus calories, if you eat more than what you burn. Physical exercise helps you to reduce it, whereas a sedentary lifestyle increases it.

In high quantities, fat mass is dangerous to health (cardiovascular risks, cholesterol, etc.).

If you are on a diet, BODYMASTER will help you to control the loss of your fat mass while making sure your lean mass stays the same. This is helpful because an unsuitable diet can result in loss of muscle. However, only muscles consume energy.

This means that if you lose muscles, you will burn fewer calories and your body will store the fat. Therefore you cannot reduce your fat mass on a lasting basis without maintaining your muscle mass. BODYMASTER will help you to monitor your diet and control the balance of your body composition over time.

To get the best out of your appliance, the body measurement must always be taken in the same conditions:

• Measurements must be taken barefoot (direct contact with the skin).
  Your feet must be dry and correctly positioned on the Electrodes, see page 2. Caution: if your feet are too calloused, the measurement may be distorted.
• Preferably once a week first thing in the morning (to avoid weight fluctuations during the day due to your food intake, digestion or physical activity).
• 15 minutes after you get up, so that the water in your body can circulate to your lower limbs. It is also important to make sure that there is no contact between your legs (thighs, knees, calves) or between your feet. If necessary, slide a sheet of paper between your legs.

Measuring principle

When you step onto the scale, barefoot, a very low intensity electric current is transmitted into your body by the electrodes.

This current, transmitted from one foot to the other, comes up against obstacles when it must pass through fat.

This resistance of the body, called bio-electric impedance, varies according to your sex, age and height, and from this, the fat mass and its limits can be determined.

This appliance is entirely safe as it is operates with a very low voltage (1.5 V batteries).

However, measurements may be distorted in the following cases:

• people with a fever,
• children under 6 (appliance not calibrated under this age),
• pregnant women (perfectly safe however),
• people on dialysis, people with oedemas on the legs, people suffering from dysmorphia.

Precautions of use

• Always place the scale on a flat & hard floor when your take your measurement. Avoid carpets and soft surfaces.
• Once you step onto the scale, try to stand still.
• Do not move the appliance when handling the keys.
• Caution: all the data stored in the memories will be lost when replacing batteries.
• Caution: the use of this appliance is prohibited for persons wearing pacemakers or any other electronical medical equipment due to risks of interferences with the electric current.
• The appliance is not a medical device ; it must not be used to determine weight for medical supervision, diagnosis or treatments purposes.

Using your bathroom scale

Automatic switch-on when stepping onto the platform.

Selecting your data

When using for the first time, a memory is assigned to you so that the scale can calculate you fat mass.

You must select your sex, height and age.

Step onto the platform and follow sequence I, pages 3-4.

Step off the scale. To record your personal data, follow the below instructions :
Example of a 30-year old woman, 165cm tall
Your details are automatically recorded in the first free memory and a memory number is assigned to you.

1. Selecting your sex:
   • If you are a woman, press .
   • If you are a man, press .
   • Confirm your choice by pressing .
     
2. Selecting your height (100 to 220 cm):
   • If you are more than 165 cm tall, press , until your height is displayed.
   • If you are less than 165 cm tall, press , until your height is displayed.
   • Confirm your height by pressing .
     
3. Selecting your age:
   • If you are over 30, press , until your age is displayed.
   • If you are under 30, press , until your age is displayed.
   • Confirm your age by pressing .
     
4. Your weight is displayed again.
   
5. Your fat mass is displayed in kg.
   

Automatic user recognition system

Your bathroom scale is equipped with an automatic user recognition
system. When weighing for the first time, you must save your personal data (see previous paragraph).
On subsequent uses, you are automatically recognized by the scale.
Step onto the platform and follow sequences I & II, pages 3-4.

Special Case
Should 2 users have similar weights or if your weight differential is abnormally great, BODYMASTER asks you to reconfirm your memory number.

In this case, after stepping off the platform:

• If the scale offers to save your details even though these are already in its memory: press on the , then on the or until your memory data are displayed. Then press on the to confirm your choice.
• If the scale gets the wrong memory for you: press on or until your memory is displayed. Then press on to confirm your choice.
• If you are a new user, choose the first empty memory to save your settings and if all the memories are used, delete one of the memories (see point 3).

Clearing Memories

All the memories are used.
Follow sequence I, then III pages 3-4 :

1. To clear your memory:
   When your personal characteristics are displayed, press for 3 seconds on. The message “Clr” appears and 3 beeps will sound.
2. To clear a memory other than your own:
   When your personal characteristics are displayed, press on or to reach the memory to be deleted, then press for 3 seconds on . The message“Clr” appears and 3 beeps will sound.
3. To change the settings of your memory: (change in age or size)
   When your personal characteristics are displayed, press on to reach the characteristics in memory. Proceed as in the paragraph “Using your bathroom scale – Selecting your data”, page 7.

Special Messages

ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION FIRST!

Your appliance contains valuable materials which can be recovered or recycled.
Leave it at a local civic waste collection point.
Never throw used battery into the dustbin: consider them as chemical residue.
Take them to a recognised collection point.