Something horrible happened to me today!
I went to the doctor for the 1st time in a long while and they had me weigh in. The scale said 181 pounds! According to my *******ly scale at home, I only weigh 168! I've just completed Phase I and I thought I had lost 10 lbs. Now I can't be so sure. I have no idea how much I've lost! How can I tell if my scale at home is proportionate to the one at the Dr's office? Maybe I started at 191 and not 178. What if I didn't lose anything at all? I feel like I could cry. I've been wondering why my pants still feel tight even though I lost 10 lbs. I know I need to keep it up and not let this get me down but it was nice to tell my friends and family that I've lost 10 lbs. Now what can I tell them? What can I tell myself.

Okay, I'm changing my ticker. sniff-sniff.

Wait a minute...What time do you normally weigh yourself? Your weight will fluctual a few pounds during the day due to food and water. The scales at the dr office can be wrong too. Go somewhere else and weigh. Don't get down...just evaluate the situation.

I'm sure you still lost the 10lbs, it's probably your scale and the doctor scale are set different . If you routinely weigh yourself at home and it went down 10, you stick with 10!! The next time you go to the doctors I'm sure it will less too.

I'd also keep my ticker based on the scale that you'll use more. We don't care if you put 168 or 181

My sympathies! I hate my doc's scale too but use my own scale as my real measure. Ten pounds is still ten pounds so be proud!

My doc's scale is about 6 pounds off. Then, with clothes and sneakers and weighing mid-day, I can usually count that it's 8-11 pounds off.

Chin up babe! You still lost 10 pounds and that's fantastic!

Thanks. You're all so sweet!
All of you are right. I'm taking all of your comments to heart.
That smiley hug was the best hug I've gotten in a while.
I'll do something with my ticker tomorrow.

Don't worry! Different scales always read differently. I weigh 3-4 lbs heavier during the day than I do in the morning and add about 5 lbs with clothes and shoes. Like the other ladies said, if the scale you always weigh on showed a 10 lb loss then you did lose 10 lbs. ConRATulations!

Your Dr. scale has an evil cousin at my "Curves" (gym.) It weights almost 10 pounds higher than my angelic bathroom scale, however, after the initial shock I figured, hey, if I'm losing weight I'm losing weight. If I hadn't los the 7 pounds I'd still way 7 pounds more on both scales. So whatever. Use which ever one makes you happy IMO, as long as the needle travels in the right direction, that's the only thing that tool is really good for, YOU'RE NOT A NUMBER!

If it were me, I wouldn't change my ticker. Your home scale is the one you go by, right? Then keep going by it. If it says you dropped 10 lbs, you probably did - even if the actual weight was not right. Once you get down around your goal, you can lower it if needed. Various things can account for at least some of the discrepency - different clothing, shoes, time of day, food consumed beforehand, etc.

Just my 2 cents!

A scale is a scale... 10 pounds is 10 pounds!!!!! And our Hens are right... you are gonna weigh differing amounts through out the day.

I think your dr borrowed that scale from my dr. I always weigh more at the drs office than at home.

I wouldnt change your ticker. Congrats on the weight loss!

I went to the gym last night and it said the same thing 181. I think the best solution will be to just change my starting weight to 191 and my current weight to 181. I just joined the gym this week and from now on that's gonna be the scale I'm going to use. It's hard but it's the truth and I just have to deal with it. At least I lost 10 lbs. That makes it all okay with me!

In college I worked for 24 hour fitness. I do not know if he set the scale that way or merely knew it was way off and just refused to fix it but my boss let our patrons use a scale that would say you weighed 7 lbs more than you really did. At the time it seemed like a ploy to keep people as members. You would get your "first free session with a personal trainer," during your trial membership then see you were 5 lbs heavier and feel the need to sign up. Evil scale gyms! As long as you are always going by the same scale you should be fine. However home scales are more realistically apt to break than the one at the dr's office or the gym. Maybe just take a new weigh in from there and go on with life. We are very proud of you, and I am sure your hard work and effort have afforded you some weight loss.