PHILIPS HF8005/00
Owner's Manual

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Tip: Consider working towards your target weight in steps by setting 5kg targets. Tip: Of course you are free to deviate from this if you already have a target weight in mind.  Achieving your target weight The difference between your overall target weight and your current weight can be quite large. This can be quite discouraging, as you will ask yourself how you will ever be able to achieve this target weight. Moreover, it also makes it difficult to determine whether you are on the right track or not. Daily targets Your new digital scales split up the (large) difference between your current weight and your overall target weight into smaller and more manageable daily targets. These daily targets are easier to achieve and give you a better idea of whether you are on the right track towards achieving your overall target weight or not. Every time you weigh yourself, the scales show, besides your overall target weight, a daily target weight and inform you whether you have achieved this daily target weight or not. This enables you to determine whether you are still on track to achieve your overall target weight, whether you need to work harder or whether you can relax your efforts a little. In this way, the scales keep you motivated day after day, so that you can focus your efforts on your exercise and diet programme. Weighing tips Weight tracking is most useful if you record your weight every day, at the same time of day, under the same circumstances. This allows you to observe changes over an extended period of time. The best time to weigh yourself is right after you wake up in the morning. Since you will not have eaten since going to sleep, your body tends to have its most consistent weight at that time. Always weigh yourself dressed the same way. Certain other factors can also affect weight measurement: - Having a meal (leads to a higher weight) - Physical activity/sports (leads to a lower weight) - Menstrual cycle (leads to fluctuations in weight) Weight loss progress (Fig. 1) Most weight programmes recommend a healthy speed of losing weight of about 0.7-1kg (1.5-2lb) a week. If you lose weight too fast, you may be losing water instead of fat or you may have a health condition that requires medical attention. If you lose weight too slowly, you may have to make a greater effort to reach your target weight and it will take longer to achieve your target weight. These Philips digital scales calculate your daily weight target on the basis of a healthy weight loss speed. Based on your current weight, your daily target weight decreases by 0.1kg a day. So after one week, your daily weight target is about 0.7kg lower than your current weight. The thick line shows the ideal speed of losing weight. In reality, this line is never straight as your weight fluctuates throughout the day due to several factors (e.g. physical activities, food/fluid intake and the time of day). The scales make use of a margin to compensate for these daily fluctuations. If the weight measured is down to 1kg below your daily target weight , the result is considered OK and you see a happy smiley. If you are up to 1kg above your daily target weight, there may be a reason for concern and you do not see a smiley. If your weight is more than 1kg above or below your daily target weight, you are losing weight either too quickly or too slowly. In these cases, you see a neutral smiley. Weight gain progress (Fig. 2) These Philips digital scales calculate your daily weight target on the basis of a healthy weight gain speed. Based on your current weight, your daily target weight increases by 0.1kg a day. So after one week, your daily weight target is about 0.7kg higher than your current weight.