Help!
 

I'm really confused. When I weigh myself with slippers ON it actually gives me a lower weight than it does when I weigh myself while I'm barefoot. Which one is more accurate? And why does it do this? I've tried this several different times, on different days, and I have the same problem. If it helps at all, it's a glass digital scale.

Wow! I'd better run get my slippers and weigh. I have a glass digital scale, too. I think the most important thing is to be consistant. Either weigh with slippers or without. Pick one! In the meantime, I will try to remember to experiment with mine.

Scales tend to have a more accurate relationship with bare skin. Weighing with slippers is a little like putting your scales on carpet - not as reliable.

But I agree with the above poster - as long as you weigh yourself under consistent conditions, you'll get a good picture of how your weight loss is going.

:)

I have the rubber bottom type slippers, so I didn't think it would really make a difference (they're very light as well) but what shocks me, is it can vary from a 1-3 pound difference with and without the slippers!

If you don't mind, could you tell me if yours does the same if you do try it, that is.

I weigh exactly one pound less without the slippers. I don't think the slippers weigh a pound, but, whatever. Like I said, I think being consistent is the important thing.

I have had this scale mess up before. It weighed me like fifteen pounds more than I really weigh. It just did it once, though. Thank goodness!!!!

I think being consistent is the best idea too, but that is very strange!

Good morning!

Some of the newer digital scales actually have to have contact with bare skin in order to work correctly. That's true with my Tanita scale--it also reads body fat % and total water %. But barefoot is necessary.

Jay