If you were lucky, as a kid, there was a time when a book came in the mail with your name in it.

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After embarking on a gadget-fueled quest to shed poundage, your humble narrator has been using the connected body scale for the last few months, so when it came time to upgrade, we just needed to put in our Withings account details.

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