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letsgorunning 02-24-2011 01:49 PM

Scale Recommendations?
 
Hey girls - do any of you have a recommendation for a good bathroom scale? Mine is crap. If I set it in one corner of my bathroom, I weigh 5 pounds lighter than if I set it one foot away in another area of my bathroom. I live in a new apartment so I don't think the floors are THAT warped!

I know that the number on the scale shouldn't matter, but I find myself shuffling the scale around the bathroom like a crazy person, and weighing myself five times just to get an average number!

I don't want something too expensive, but I would like something reliable.

Thanks!

Porthardygurl 02-24-2011 02:04 PM

I picked up a weight watchers brand scale from a local home hardware store..im sure you can find them in other places..but i find its accurate within a pound..

kat999 02-24-2011 02:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by letsgorunning (Post 3728456)
If I set it in one corner of my bathroom, I weigh 5 pounds lighter than if I set it one foot away in another area of my bathroom.

Well, clearly the "lighter" corner is the correct one, duh! ;)

pageta 02-24-2011 02:30 PM

I have this scale and I do NOT recommend it. I weigh myself daily and it has this great "feature" where if you weigh close to what you did the last time, it just gives you the same number. So I have to weigh myself twice daily - once with a stack of books, once without - in order to know my weight for that day. I grumped about it in my review, and they said that "oh, well, people's weight fluctuates so that's why they gave it that feature." Otherwise it is quite accurate. I just get tired of the double-weighing every morning.

Engraved 02-24-2011 02:31 PM

Just an observation.. you need to weigh yourself always at the exact same spot, preferably around the same time n day every week. thats what my dietician said to me at least, and it sounds right :) No matter how good the floor there are always going to be differences etc etc :P

Lnm130 02-24-2011 03:38 PM

I weigh in my bath tub, lol. My bathroom floor is carpeted so I don't get an acurate reading. I got mine from Meijer, it's a weight watchers one....about $25.

2feelbetter 02-24-2011 06:11 PM

I have this scale. I like it a lot. IT does seem to fluctuate every couple of days but people were saying that your weight can go up and down a pound or two depending on water weight and other factors so I try to keep that in mind.

This is the scale I have. I bought it at Walmart. It's a memory scale good for 2 people. It tells you how much you have gained or loss since your last weigh in.

http://www.walmart.com/ip/Health-O-M...-Black/4213534

lackadaisy 02-24-2011 06:56 PM

Seconding the EatSmart... bought it recently, do not like. Ugh.


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