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07-27-2010, 09:32 AM
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Mission 130
Thread Starter
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Burlington, NC
Posts: 26
S/C/G: 180/172.5/130
Height: 5'1"
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Are you a good scale or bad scale?
Not 7 days ago, my doctor's scale proclaimed 180 lbs., which I was totally ready for since I'd been binging on Chips Ahoy out of a stubborn "God, I just want a cookie" phase. My own scale this morning made me a happy girl by announcing I'd lost 7.5 lbs., about 1 lbs. a day.
I also have a guilty pleasure of stepping on scales at stores to see if they are nice or not nice about my weight.
I'm not quite willing to believe the thing. I was planning for a very slow and moderate loss, over the course of a year or more, about 4 pounds a month. Has anyone else been hornswaggled by their scale? Feeling pretty good leaving the house with a loss only to be sucker punched at the doctor's with a number that doesn't look anything like what was on your scale?
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07-27-2010, 09:47 AM
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Less than 15 now!!
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: Nebraska
Posts: 1,249
S/C/G: 220/*ticker*/145
Height: 5' 4"
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LOL!
This cracks me up...
MY scale = Good
Every other scale = EVIL.
'Nuff said.
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07-27-2010, 11:16 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2010
Posts: 370
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I am SO with mortonpixie! At the doc office, I figure it accounts for all my clothes (that's got to at least be 5 pounds, right?) At home, I weigh first thing in the morning, naked, after I pee (you know you do the same!) so I know there will be fluctuations there as well. Doctor scale always lies to me!
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07-27-2010, 11:22 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: May 2010
Location: FL
Posts: 117
S/C/G: 260.2/228/145
Height: 5'4"
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My old scale was very nice, approx 13 lbs of nice... So, yes I was shocked to find out that instead of 247, I was 260, YIKES!!!! So, I said goodbye to my lying scale and now have begun a love hate relationship with a new scale, somedays she is very nice and other days she is just MEAN!!! I have not checked her accuracy with the Doc's scale, but I feel like it is on the money!!
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07-27-2010, 11:53 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: PA
Posts: 1,712
Height: 5' 8"
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If you weigh yourself right before you go to the Dr.s office, you can tell if their is a weight diff btwn your scale and theirs. My old scale was always 5 lbs lighter than the drs office, so I knew that whatever my scale said first thing in the morning I needed to add 5 lbs to it.
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07-27-2010, 11:55 AM
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Don't Stop Believin'
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Kansas
Posts: 63
S/C/G: 190.4/ticker/150
Height: 5'6"
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It depends on the day - most days my scale is pretty close to the doctor's which = nice. However, much to my surprise my doctor's scale was much nicer to me yesterday than my own (about 1/2 lb nicer) which isn't typical - but I will take it!
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07-27-2010, 12:38 PM
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#7
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Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2010
Posts: 370
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Well, I say my goal weight is 135 but truth it my goal weight is 135 at the doctor's office!
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07-27-2010, 12:59 PM
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PCOS/IR/Hypothyroid
Join Date: Jan 2004
Posts: 3,855
Height: 5'8"
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Mine pretty much matches the doc, give or take 1 or 2 lbs. I figure that's clothing.
A.
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07-27-2010, 10:58 PM
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Junior Member
Join Date: Jul 2010
Posts: 9
S/C/G: 314/306.5/200
Height: 5'7"
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I have three scales in my life - my bathroom scale (very nice), my Wii Fit (medium nice most days) and the scale at my WW meetings once a week (not always so nice). Generally if I take the two I have at home and average their numbers and then add about two pounds, it's what the WW scale says (adding the pounds for clothes - at home I can weigh nekkid )
Oh, there's also the one at my gym, but it's bipolar. Yesterday it said one thing, today it said almost 7 lbs less - methinks it needs to be calibrated...
Dana
304.2/285.2/200
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07-28-2010, 09:11 AM
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I'm Just a Little Crazy
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Willington, CT
Posts: 1,404
S/C/G: 250/215/170
Height: 5'9"
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I figure Dr scales are always good for adding on about 5 lbs. My hubby said the same thing the other day - that there must be something wrong with ours b/c it was about 5 lbs lighter than at the drs. I told him there is absolutely NOTHING wrong with our scale! Lol!
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07-28-2010, 01:11 PM
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Vegging out
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: IL
Posts: 347
S/C/G: 268/ticker/148
Height: 5'6"
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I had one that was about 15 lbs lighter than my doctors scale. I wasn't happy to find that out. My current one is only about 2 lbs off, but it's heavier if I remember correctly, so I don't even sweat it. Scales should never lie to you, if you can't trust your scale, who can you trust?
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07-28-2010, 02:24 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Texas
Posts: 547
S/C/G: 250/110/110
Height: 5'4''
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I always test my scale out with a weight to see if it's accurate. I should take the weight with me to the dr next time to see what theirs say!
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07-28-2010, 02:26 PM
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Mission 130
Thread Starter
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Burlington, NC
Posts: 26
S/C/G: 180/172.5/130
Height: 5'1"
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A scale conspiracy apparently. ^_^ To keep us on the lookout for the 'perfect' scale. Sounds like a strange dating service, like speed dating. No one is quite right, but that one doesn't seem like a raving lunatic.
At least this time the nurse using the thing had it in pounds and not kilos. What a pleasant measurement that was!
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07-28-2010, 05:36 PM
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Member
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: WV
Posts: 63
S/C/G: 187/ticker/141
Height: 5'2"
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I think the doctors scale is calibrated to make you think you weigh more, to inspire people to try and get healthier. But because they know the weight will make us depressed and therefore eat more, we actually become unhealthier after visiting the doc from the comfort food we consume over the weight. Thus, making us unhealthier and requiring more visits to the doctor.. and so, they win.
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