Ahhhhhh #@$#@ My new scale says I'm 10 lbs heavier???

ValRock · 02-07-2012, 07:02 PM

I've had the same scale all through maintenance but my daughter dumped a bucket of water out of the tub and directly on to it... toasted.

Bought a new scale at Target today. It says 176.3 WHAT?

*sigh* do I change my ticker, do I throw a tantrum???

I hate you, new scale!!!

Jelbb · 02-07-2012, 07:04 PM

!!!!! Omigod, that's sooooo frustrating!!!

To be brutally honest, I'd just subtract ten lbs. If it says you weigh 177, you weigh 167. When it says you weigh 157, you know you're down to 147!

There's no reason to change your path because this scale is so off!!!

bargoo · 02-07-2012, 07:26 PM

If you are planning to use the new scale exclusively I would show my starting weight as ten pounds heavier and show the weight that the new scale shows on your ticker. You have still lost 90 pounds, that has not changed,

124chicksinger · 02-07-2012, 08:05 PM

I would take something that I know weighs 40 pounds, and weigh it. Is it adjustable?

PaintedButterfly · 02-07-2012, 08:08 PM

Did your old scale (or this scale) have carpet feet? They make quite a difference. If one of them is designed for carpet and you are (or are not.. say you're using a scale set up for carpet on a hard floor) that'll make a difference.

Other wise as chicksinger says I'd take something heavy you know the weight of- a couple bags of sugar/rice in a shopping bag for example and weigh yourself with and without them and see if it weighs correctly.

Either way it makes no difference to the weight you've lost and the progress you've made! Don't forget that.

ValRock · 02-07-2012, 08:21 PM

*sigh* I checked the settings and put a 25 lb handweight on it. It's right. MANNNNNNNNNNNN.

I'll change my ticker but UGH, this is not fun!!! Just when I'd recommited to get the rest of this weight off. 20 lbs. becomes 30!

Jelbb · 02-07-2012, 08:23 PM

Gah! That's so totally frustrating.

But you know what... eff it, at the end of the day, you kicked 90 lbs worth of *** so far, and you're gonna either kick 20... or 30 more, and be thrilled when you're done!

bargoo · 02-07-2012, 08:29 PM

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Originally Posted by ValRock

*sigh* I checked the settings and put a 25 lb handweight on it. It's right. MANNNNNNNNNNNN.

I'll change my ticker but UGH, this is not fun!!! Just when I'd recommited to get the rest of this weight off. 20 lbs. becomes 30!

Show your starting weight as ten pounds heavier. The amount of weight you have lost it is still 90 pounds.

Dianne042425 · 02-07-2012, 08:35 PM

Awwwwwwwww

I like what Bargoo says, you've still lost the same amount of weight. Don't lose motivation!! You look so good already!!!!!!

ValRock · 02-07-2012, 08:58 PM

Thanks ladies... I'll move my start weight too... It's actually super close to 300 lbs (I finally saw my medical chart last summer yikes).... but 257 was the highest weight I saw with my own eyes. You're right, I've still come so far, this won't derail me!

berryblondeboys · 02-07-2012, 09:15 PM

That had to be a hard pill to swallow... I just recently changed my start weight too. Initially I had 255.6 as that is whee I started in January the year before, but a year before that I was 265 and a few years before that was 275. In the end I decided to show the whole journey because it tells the whole story of where I have been.

Try not to get discouraged by the number. Numbers really mean so little.... You've seen the blog where there'd is a woman at 160 as unfit and super fit? She dropped a ton of dress sizes, but not a single pound. Her journey wasn't so much about the scale, but all about rescaling here body through fitness.... And isn't being healthy what is all about anyway?

bluestegosaurus · 02-07-2012, 09:22 PM

berryblondeboys - could you give the link to the blog you mentioned? i'd like to see her journey.

Wild Vulpix · 02-07-2012, 09:56 PM

I'd say not to sweat it, really. The scale might read a higher number, but that doesn't mean you weight 10 more lbs than you did yesterday. The progress you made is still valid, and if you ended up keeping that old scale and never getting this one, you might have found that your original goal was fine, or you might have gotten there and thought to lose some more...

You don't weigh any more than you did! You don't look different! You didn't gain inches. If your new scale said you really weighed 120 instead of 10lbs more than you thought? Would you keep working on losing inches, or would you be satisfied and maintain?

berryblondeboys - That blog sounds interesting. I've never heard of it. Have a link?

MiZTaCCen · 02-07-2012, 10:49 PM

I once bought an old school scale (still have one but a different one that told me I was 210 pounds. I was pretty happy I looked good for a 210 pounder haha....turns out it was really wrong and was only 180...thank god! But still! haha

sontaikle · 02-08-2012, 05:16 AM

That really sucks! I'm sorry!

But just to echo what everyone said, you didn't magically gain 10lbs overnight and you still lost 90lbs.

I had something similar happen lately...but I found out my scale was weighing me in 10lbs heavier than I really was. I also lost more weight than I thought then because I know I weighed over 200 at one point in high school (I just don't know what since I've blocked it out and can't remember) and I'm on the short side so that's a hard thing to face...

But I do know how much it messes with your head when you are suddenly the weight you don't think you are!! It took me a while to realize I had actually hit 120 (and now even lower) and that everything I thought I knew about myself was off (maybe I'm not large-framed, or maybe I am but those charts are off...)

Does your goal weight still need to be 147? If you felt you needed to lose 20lbs before, do you suddenly feel you need to lose 30lbs because of the scale?