I hate my new scale

[disneychrista]

I bought a new scale, a digital one, because my old dial scale was driving me crazy. Well the new one weighs me 10 pounds heavier then my dial scale, how is that possible?? Since I usually wiegh first thing in the AM, I am going to wait until then for my "real" wieght but how depressing for it to say 10# higher then the old one.

 

[believe]

I think digital scales are more touchy in the fact that you do need to weigh at the same time of day.

 

[zakatak]

That happened to me too! Oh Well, I just cried for a few days, then bucked up and continued losing!

Now I love my scale...

Last night, I weighed in at my SIL (scale obsession), fully clothed, at night and it said "115" lol... I SOOOOO know I don't weight that fully clothed and at night so her scale must be at least 5 pounds off... So, someday, she too, will have a eye opener!

Karen

 

[anniet]

Originally posted by zakatak
I SOOOOO know I don't weight that fully clothed and at night so her scale must be at least 5 pounds off... So, someday, she too, will have a eye opener!

Karen

ROFL!

I've heard that unless you lay a good chunck of cash out for a digital scale, they can be way off. I paid $50 for a Tanita scale that was recommended by Consumer reports as being one of the most accurate. Tanita has other scales, this was their bottom of the line model and it was still more than I wanted to pay, but I just bit the bullet and did it.

I don't remember how close it was to my old digital scale, I just remember my old digital scale would fluctuate 3 pounds from one day to the next (back and forth) so I sunk some money into a good one.

 

[Jiminy102]

I had always had cheap scales and hated them. When my MIL moved she left a small doctors scale. not the one with the weight thing at the top but another kind that seems pretty accurate as lopng as it does not get moved. I work in a clinic so I have access to a doctor's scale 5 days a week so I weih at work. That way I at least have hopes of it being accurate!!

 

[TigH]

We had the digital scale from He**. I had a horrible relationship with it! Depending on which way you leaned, it went up or down several pounds.

I really don't like any scales, but the one we have now is the old fashioned kind with the numbers that circle around and stop at the needle in the middle. This one at least stays still when it stops on a number and it gives me a good indication of pounds lost. I HOPE I weigh the same number that it indicates! The only trouble with it is the numbers are so darn small! My DH has to bend down to check them for me, ha ha ha!

Good luck and don't despair. Just keep on working out and eating right and pay attention to how those clothes fit!

 

[nativetxn]

You know what? In a few weeks you won't care anymore. It's a shock to get on a new scale and find out that you weigh more than you thought. But you will continue to lose weight and the scale will reflect each loss. So the total number is higher than you originally thought...a loss is a loss is a loss. You will still be making progress.

Come on, cheer up, you are successful at this weight loss game. See that 5 pound loss clippie of yours? You lost that weight no matter what the scale says your weight is now, right? You have <b>lost 5 pounds</b>! I think that's pretty terrific. So you weighed more than you thought you did when you began. You have still lost 5 pounds. Sounds like a win/win situation, to me.

Hang in there and watch the pounds continue to drop. We're here for you always. Come and vent to us any time. You know we care. Now <i>snap out of it</b>!

 

[disneychrista]

I am going to continue to wiegh with both scales until I hit the 10# mark on the old scale, since they are wieghing so differently, then I will move to the new scale. Even my old scale says a gain of 3 pounds over last week, which is really hard for me to understand. I could accept no loss, but I worked too hard for there to be a gain.

Oh well onward and downward!