I have a question to ask about your scales. I see most of you are using a digital scale. I am using a dial scale, however my mothers digital scale and my scale show different weights for me. I was thinking of buying myself a digital scale for my first five lb. reward but I don't want to go digital and "gain"weight. Which is more accurate? Can digital scales be off. What if my starting weight was more than I thought. Am I excited about nothing!!!!
Well, I've found that my digital scale (I actually have 2 - one that reads in 0.5 pound increments, and one that reads in 0.2 pound increments) are pretty much dead on to the doctor scale, but I've only had either for about 2 years, so I'm sure like with anything else, with age it would start to wear down.
The dial scale I had in the past could be up to 10 pounds off.
Yes, you might "gain", but you'll never be "shocked" when you go into the doctor's, which was always really depressing and embarassing for me.
Where is kittycat and vikkivma...I figured they swoop on in here and end this thing for us today
And here I am, still at 134.5. I'm pretty sure that's 1.5 from goal. I sometimes forget where I started.
I'm getting ready to battle weekend temptations.
Happy start to the summer weekend!
Last edited by kittycat40; 07-18-2008 at 07:59 PM.
kittycat - you are right about the 1.5 lbs...sorry
Mercermom - I had the same thought you did...I have a digital scale but I wanted one that reads to 0.2 so I could see how close I was to a certain weight...I finally got one but I don't like it because it is just all over the place compared to my scale....I figured I will stick with the one I started with...at least that way I will really know where I am in relation to where I started!
I'm so happy to see you ladies still have this challenge going....After a fun summer of eating tons junk and eating out just about everywhere I'm ready to get back on plan. Bringing with me some extra pounds
Ok.. I i'm joining on this challenege at the tail end, I know. I stepped on the scale and had a SMALL freakout.. ( and by small i mean big ) At least I'm back now and I'm not gonna dwell or justify it ( even though i'm dying to make my excuses why i've allowed myself to gain so much of my weight back )
ANYWAY
starting weight: 297.8
current weight: 297.8
goal weight:292.8
Yayyyy!! I weighed in this morning and not only did I hit my goal weight for this challenge of 243...but I was down to 242....I weighed like 500 times!!!
