Probably a silly question, but what kind of scales do you all use/recommend?
I see a lot of people who's weigh in are .1, .3, .6 etc. My scale only does .0 and .5. I think it would be nice to keep track of the smaller variances and see what my body is doing. Any advice would be greatly appreciated
i use a WW scale from wal-mart.
technically its supposed to also calculate body fat composition, but i never did figure out how to use that function so it's a digital scale that goes up in .1 increments.
I just use the cheap 8 dollar scale that doesn't do . or anything special it just spins to the number. Maybe one day I'll invest in a . something scale but every time I seem to step on those there's always an ERROR lol...
I don't really trust digital scales, haha. I have an old analog scale that I use. I found out it was off by 10 pounds recently, but I know it's accurate now because it weighs my 12lb and 15lb weights correctly
I have a glass Weight Watchers scale... but only because my mother bought it for me for Christmas a few years ago.
That being said, no matter WHAT scale you use, it's probably gonna say something slightly different than the next one... I tend not to stress about what number the scale says I am... and more use it as a barometer to know how much weight I've lost from my starting point.
I just use the $20 special...nothing fancy. The way I see it is if the scale is 10lbs off, it's 10lbs off. I'll still be able to measure my progress, it'll just be 10lbs off from 'reality' which I can get a dose of anytime I want by just going to my doctor.
I also don't really care about anything less than a pound...or even two pounds of difference. I operate under the assumption that my weight can vary by 1-2 lbs depending on water retention and the contents of my bowels at any given point in time. If I weigh myself first thing in the morning, I'm retaining water and I haven't pooped (TMI, I don't poop until I'm at work :] ). My lowest weight during the day (and yes, I've spent several weeks where I checked my weight several times per day, just to see the variances) happens to be when I get home from work--2 hours after my last meal and after drinking tons of water all morning (and peeing it all out).
If I wake up one morning and realize my scale is more often at 123 instead of 125 and stays in that range for a week, then and ONLY then do I register that as a weight loss!
I don't really trust digital scales, haha. I have an old analog scale that I use. I found out it was off by 10 pounds recently, but I know it's accurate now because it weighs my 12lb and 15lb weights correctly
LOL! You just made me realise how STUPID i am. My analog scale was bothering me - I wanted to know for sure if it was working properly and the best thing I could think of was to google the weight of my laptop (had to dig deep to get the right weight for this model macbook) and then put it on there. Could have just used a weight. Hahahaha. OMG. Im silly.
I use a glass weight watchers scale that I got from walmart 2 years ago. I love it. At first it was off (meaning I'd step on it, see a number, then stop off and back on and have a totally different number) but then I realized you can't weigh with socks on. Once I took my socks off it worked perfect. It measures your body fat, water weight and bone mass, but I never do that stuff (I'm not sure of how accurate that stuff would be anyways since the scale is only $40 and that seems kind of complex)
It weighs in .1 increments but I never pay attention to those. Here's what it looks like :
I used my wii fit balance board. It will only give me whole lbs, but it plots them exactly on a graph and gives me a bmi at the same time. It works for me
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