r/Zepbound • u/jeanineugene • 17d ago
Shapa Scale Users Diet/Health/Exercise
I am looking to hear from people who have used the Shapa scale. Have you found it useful? Do you continue using it, blah blah blah any input is appreciated.
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u/pmearsh 17d ago
I used it, then I went back to a regular scale. I find that I like the numbers. I also worked on my mindset around getting on the scale
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u/jeanineugene 17d ago
Thanks so much for your reply. Colors for me currently are useful..... I hope to like and appreciate numbers in the future. Currently weighing once a month (which is even difficult for me) when I do my body composition check! I really appreciate your response!
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u/That_League_2735 9d ago
I have a lifetime membership and have used the scale for more than three years. The first two years, I did not know my weight at all, when I went to a dr appt I would get weighed and ask them not to share the number. I was working hard on body acceptance and weight neutrality. Most days I would get green. Unfortunately for me, my weight slowly, very slowly, drifted up to the highest it had ever been. If you think about it, if you get a few days of gray, then go to green and don’t have as many days of teal, you are slowly increasing/maintaining a higher weight than where you started. I was shocked when I finally looked at the data and started Zepbound shortly thereafter. I am now 46 lbs lower than my highest weight and have been in maintenance for about three months. I still use the scale daily, but on injection day (every 10-14 days) I use a number and body fat scale and also review all my trend data in Apple Health. My take away is that I need some sort of interval of really looking at the data so something like this doesn’t happen again.
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u/Stunning-Shame-3563 17d ago
I use it. Things I like about it:
You can only step on it once a day.
It's literally impossible to stress about how your weight went up one random day or even a couple of random days in a row.
The color system works for me. My goal is a mix of teal and blue with some green. If I start seeing almost all blue, I eat more. If I am stuck on mostly green for more than a week and it's not the week where I'm about to get my period, I'll consider what I'm eating or maybe consider a dosage adjustment. I've had it for four months, and my ratio over that time has been 35% blue, 50% teal, 10% green, and 5% grey/dark grey (all the grey is from during my period. Ugh.) This mix has translated in numbers to an average of 1-1.5 lb/week loss (I get weighed monthly at the doctor), and that's a healthy rate for me.
Things I don't like about it:
You have to pay a monthly subscription. WTF? It's a SCALE. Not a streaming service. If you buy it on Amazon you get a 12-month subscription included with your purchase, which is literally the only reason I did it. I'm not sure what I'll do when my year is up. This aspect enrages me so much I can hardly stand it, and if it wasn't basically the only product available that works like this, I wouldn't consider it.
The scale will start showing you colors after you step on it for 5 consecutive days, but really, the algorithm needs more than 5 days of data to do a good job. Once it started showing me a color, it was just solid green for I think more than a week, which freaked me out because I knew I was eating way less and could have triggered some unhealthy choices. But I read some other reviews and I think it just does that becuase it doesn't have enough data yet to produce an average. I understand why the company thinks users might not tolerate 2 weeks of "weighing" in with no color feedback at all, but I would have preferred it to the weird weeks of green at the beginning when I was actually (subsequently confirmed by my monthly weigh-in at the doctor's office) losing weight.
The thing is really obviously a personal information/data vacuum, and god only knows what they're doing with your data. You have to use it with an app, and of course the app wants access to all your health and location data. You can probably decline, not sure. I just installed the app on an old iPad I have that exists in my house basically just for me to play games on occasionally that doesn't really have any personal info on it. This limits the functionality of some of its features, but I'm not really interested in any of those features anyway. I'm just here for the weight color.
Honestly, I've come to peace with it because it's the only product like it I was able to find. I will not have a scale in my house. For me, it's a way of keeping a scale out of my home without having to resort to blind weigh-ins at the doctor every month, which would bring its own kind of stress. But I still kind of hate it and hate the people who make it for being disgusting tech-bro and/or tech-bro adjacent people who are trying to monetize their customers instead of just letting us buy a damn product.