haha me too xD

Hmm...not to be a downer, but for your heigh 257 sounds right for 16/18. I'm 5'5 and wore an 18 when I was 190. So if we have similar body types, 190 would put you at a few sizes smaller.

BUT could have a totally different body shape, so who knows??

I'm curious too.

My husband has a crappy manual scale that only weighs up to 200... anything above that gives weird readings. I wonder if that was the case here? I'm curious to see what she found out.

At 5'5'', 200 lbs, I wore a tight 16 or an 18. I would bet money that the scale that said 257 was dead wrong. Especially since when I was 250's, I was in a size 22/24.

My sister's 200 lbs, 5'6", and wears a 14/16. So a 16/18 at 190 sounds okay to me.

Hey, I am curious too, let us know how you got on Noway...I had a similar experience (but only by 20lbs) and it felt really dreadful.

Btw, i am 5"9 also, and at 200lbs, i was wearing the equivilant of US size 12 max, so again not to be a downer but i guess somewhere on the higher side is going to be a bit more correct.
When I was 260 I would have been wearing a US 16-18 or so

Actually, it's the opposite. If you're shorter and weight the same amount as a taller person, you wear a bigger size, typically speaking depending on where you carry your weight. I know, because I'm a shorty with lots of tallish friends.

That's what she said. If they both weigh around 190, but ParadiseFalls is shorter and wears an 18.. then noway should wear a smaller size since she's taller. Same with me.. I'm 5'5 and weigh 195 and I wear a 16, so I would think someone four inches taller would be a wearing a smaller size than I do.

I'm guessing that the manual scale only went up to 200, so it showed her weight incorrectly but all her friends' weights (if they're smaller) would've been right. I doubt that the scale at the gym, regardless of how much it's used, could be 60 pounds off without anyone saying anything and fixing it.

Many factors enter into this. If you weigh at home, nude before breakfast you will be at your lowest weight of the day. When you weigh away from home you will be wearing clothes and will probably have eaten food and had water to drink. That will make a differance but not as much as you experienced. I would try another scale , in your own home , if possible and under the same conditions that you normally do when you weigh.However that will not change the amount of weight you have lost. A pound lost is a pound lost no matter what scale you weigh on.
And if you find that your scale is closer to being accurate let the gym know so they can have theirs fixed and save others from the trauma you are going through.

Well, looks like we're all confused! Lol. I think the bottom line is that all of our bodies are so different that it's impossible to tell what you might weigh. And now you've got us really curious!

Please let us know what you find out !

Hi guys, thank you so much for the posts! I appreciate them all and I read them the other day and tried to figure out what was going on, using the advice you guys gave.

First I took a weight I have, which is exactly 3 lbs and put it on my scale at home, (after making sure it was zeroed out.) My scale put it at 3lbs.

So next, I checked to see how much my scale goes up to, since a lot of people have had experiences with manual scales that only go up to 200. Well when I looked at the scale, it goes up to 300, so that's not it.

After weighing the 3lb weight yet again and seeing the results were still 3 lbs, I got on the scale and it still said 190.

Haven't been able to go up to my grandma's yet to use her scale. But went back to the gym and used the scale again, and it still said 257.

What's even more odd is, I went back to the gym the next day, and I had two teen relatives with me, and they weighed themselves also. The girl's weight came out to be 137. I actually would have thought she was about 125-130, but still, that's about right. There's no 60 lb difference like with my situation. Don't know what the boy's weight was, but he said it was right. That day I did not weigh myself (cause I was embarrassed!)

So... still no answers yet. But I still don't understand what's going on.

just an FYI on the size-height question, since a number of the replies were from shorter women. I'm about 5'8.5 weigh 236 and I'm just getting into size 18 (still a 20 some places). At my lowest adult weight, 223lbs, I still wore an 18 bottom and a 14/16 top. At 257 lbs, I was around the top end of a size 20.

Good luck straightening this out!

Have you checked to see if the scales are weighing you in the same unit of measurement? The only reason I bring it up is because one time my scale got bumped and went from lbs to kgs (there is a switch on the bottom) and it the numbers were different by like 50....