Every analogue scale I've used was useless. When I get on a new scale, I start leaning forward, backward and to the sides, so I can see if the reading changes. It always does in analogues and in most cheap digital ones. So, I got a decent digital scale by Boss but it cost me 60 euros. It measures body fat, etc and it's very reliable.

The best thing about it is that after a few months, it started giving me an accurate result regardless of what I was wearing and of the surface it was laid on. I usually wake up 2-3 hours earlier than I need to and I lay around in my pj's. I hated doing that in the winter. :p

After a couple go-rounds with what Walmart had, I went with an EatSmart brand scale also - the ESBS 01 - and it's been pretty consistent over the 5 years I've had it. I'm looking forward to the day that it says what I want it to say :)

I have a Health-O-Meter. It has the weights that you slide along a bar like the ones in the doctor's office. It cost around $180 with shipping from Amazon, if I remember correctly. I love the scale and I do not obsess about how much I "really" weigh anymore. I get on it once, and that is how much I weigh. If you can afford it, I think there is nothing better, especially if you tend to obsess on the scale.

When I got the scale, it weighed me 6-8 lbs more than my digital scale. I had to suck it up and adjust my weight record, and before I knew it I had caught up.

Think of all the time you can save by only weighing once a day!!! :lol:

If you buy a nice digital scale, this doesn't happen. I can step onto my digital scale a million times and the number doesn't change. It doesn't matter if I lean forward, backward, or anything else. It's always accurate.

Just buy a better digital scale than the $10-20 cheap crap ones and it's fine. My scale was only $35 on amazon.

I'm so excited as I got myself a Withings Scale for Mother's Day. Yes... a weirdo who wanted a new scale for such an occasion!

Maybe so. But I've had my baby (yes my scale is my baby lol) for 8 years now so until it clunks out on me (if that's even possible), then maybe I'll invest in a digital....however, I don't like the idea of batteries going bad and giving inaccurate readings. I'd rather not deal with batteries at all ;)

This has nothing to do with better or not. It has to do with it having a memory or not. There are some digital scales that have memories that will only actually read every few days or register at least a half pound drop. There was a discussion on this a couple years ago.

I know this was the case with a cheap digital scale I had - no memory involved - but if you leaned one way, you got a lighter reading than leaning to the other. I would almost have preferred the same weight for a few days and no mental games back then.

I've had the scale since September and it came with batteries in the package. I still haven't needed to change the batteries yet. I think the amazon reviews said it took like 1-2 years before the batteries typically died on them. I still have my old analog scale. If the digital suddenly started giving me strange numbers because of dying batteries, I could hop on the old analog. But I don't think that's how dying batteries work. It still weighs you correctly, it just slowly fails to have the power to display the numbers or doing anything useful. Does that make sense? If you have a battery-powered lamp, it doesn't act any different, the light just slowly gets weaker and fainter as time goes on.

Well those are craptastic, cheating liar scales aren't they. Mine doesn't have any fancy functionality. It simply takes your weight, so I'd be surprised if it had any kind of memory.
It's a decimal point scale, so I see the changes in-between a pound, which is why I bought it. "153.8" "153.0" "153.3"
The analog scale doesn't show that well. It just leaves me squinting at a tiny needle and wondering if that's where the needle was last time I looked.

That's one of the first things I tested out of the box. Because I too have been on awful digital scales that gave different readings on different leanings. lol that rhymed. But I love the one I got. It doesn't have that problem at all.

I had the same problem with the scales I bought, mechanicals and digitals the same. My brother told me it was because Im so heavy, I messed them up!

So since I starting again on my dieting Im using a big one on the drug store, I go there once a month (used to go every week but was driving me insane!) and I only trust that one so hopefully I will see better results there hehe