How much do I eat if I don't know what I weigh?
PlugInBabyx
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I own three scales. Two of them are digital and one isn't and all three of them say my weight varies by about 30lbs. I have no idea which scale I should use or if I should just average them? Additionally, if I don't know how much I weigh then how should I go about setting my daily calorie intake?
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Throw out 2 scales, keep one. Put it on a flat surface...weigh yourself once in the morning, after waking up and using the bathroom and nekkid and only ever do that...then track the progress from that point
Set your goals to that weight, eat that...if over a month you aren't losing weight as expected set your calories lower0 -
Alternatively; fill a bath of known volume to the brim, climb in and let the water displace. Calculate the volume displaced by the average density of a human (985kg/m^3). Et Voila you now know your mass in kg.0
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Go to the Drs and use their scales, srep on some scales in a store.
Alternatively use something of a known weight amd see how that registers.0 -
I take a 20lb weight and place it on mine to calibrate it before i weigh.0
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PlugInBabyx wrote: »I own three scales. Two of them are digital and one isn't and all three of them say my weight varies by about 30lbs. I have no idea which scale I should use or if I should just average them? Additionally, if I don't know how much I weigh then how should I go about setting my daily calorie intake?
All three say your weight varies by 30lbs? Then throw away all three scales.
Or do you mean there is a 30lbs difference between the three scales? Test them with a known weight perhaps.0 -
Maybe you have to recallaborate the scales..0
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Too many scales. Pick one and stick with that one. It may not be perfectly accurate, it's true. But the point is to see a downward trend. So if it's a starting point, that's the main thing. Different scales can be highly variable between themselves. So weigh yourself at the same time of day in the same manner of dress (or undress).0
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I would find something you know the weight of like a weight or an unopened sack of flour and put it on each scale. Use the one that matches that most closely.
Always use the same scale in the same spot. Weigh at the same time of day under the same conditions.0 -
Put new batteries in one of the scales. Set it on a level surface. Weigh yourself.
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I don't see the point of using three scales. Also this is like a common sense problem that people have already answered.0
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... are some of your scales on carpeting or something? Because they're going to register a really off weight if they're not on a hard flat surface.
Also, as others have mentioned - you really should be getting a weight and setting it on them to check if they're calibrated properly.0 -
OP I got you, this is what you do.
Go down to the lumber yard or, better yet, a scrap depot. You're looking for a beam, 40 feet long at a minimum, but 60+ is preferred. You need to lug that home and balance it at its exact centre on a single pivot point (a fulcrum).
Now, you stand on one end, and you get a pal to go to the other end and put a drum up there. Slowly, one tablespoon at a time, you add water to the drum. When the drum gets close to approximating your weight, your end of the beam will lift off the ground - be careful! My friend Charles (he goes by Yancy) fell off and knocked two teeth out at this point! His insurance company charged him an $800 deductible but the work only cost $650 from his dentist. I tried to talk him out of it but he said "I paid for this insurance, I'm damn well gonna use it." I guess there's logic in that right? People always say that the most expensive bike is the one you don't ride, so I guess the most expensive insurance policy is the one you don't use?
Anyways, when the beam is balanced in the air, you know how many tablespoons of water you weigh! Easy right?0 -
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There's a THIRTY pound difference among your scales? Can you ask your doctor whether you can pop on by and weigh on theirs, then go home, weigh on yours and whichever scale comes the closest, use that one from here on out?0
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That's strange, how so? "Shameful"? Hmmm, not really seeing it, personally.
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A HARD flat surface.Throw out 2 scales, keep one. Put it on a flat surface...weigh yourself once in the morning, after waking up and using the bathroom and nekkid and only ever do that...then track the progress from that point
Set your goals to that weight, eat that...if over a month you aren't losing weight as expected set your calories lower
Agreed. Keep one of the digital ones.0 -
Also very good adviceI would find something you know the weight of like a weight or an unopened sack of flour and put it on each scale. Use the one that matches that most closely.
Always use the same scale in the same spot. Weigh at the same time of day under the same conditions.
And then always weigh at the same time, in the same situation (after you pee, naked, first thing in the morning, for example)
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You could maybe enter your goal weight, and then choose "Maintain". You could either eat that or eat 10% less than that.0
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That's strange, how so? "Shameful"? Hmmm, not really seeing it, personally.
Shame: a painful feeling of humiliation or distress caused by the consciousness of wrong or foolish behavior.
Do you not think that asking "how do I weigh myself?" is foolish?0 -
keep one new battery flat surface and a 5lb bag of sugar0
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PlugInBabyx wrote: »I own three scales. Two of them are digital and one isn't and all three of them say my weight varies by about 30lbs. I have no idea which scale I should use or if I should just average them? Additionally, if I don't know how much I weigh then how should I go about setting my daily calorie intake?
OP: do you go to school? First thing, go in to the nurse/health center/gym. Take off as much of your clothes as is possible, and your shoes.
start there.
Then compare to two of the digital scales, on a hard, flat surface. Throw out the other scale.
And put something you know the weight of on the two scales and see which one is CONSISTENTLY the closest. If none of them consistently weighs a 10LB bag of flour as 10LBs or at least consistently SOME number, then toss them both.
Good luck!0 -
A gallon of milk weighs around 8.6 lbs. Keep the scale that weighs closest and ditch the other two.0
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More specifically, it's foolish precisely because the OP knows what to do and is using this to make excuses. Nobody on here is a certified scale repair person; we also can't telepathically fix this problem by saying "use the red one, the other two are wrong." The ONLY solution is for the OP to find a trustworthy scale and use it. She KNOWS this. Asking the question, when she already knows the answer, is a means of delaying the task at hand which is setting goals and starting off on a lifestyle change.0
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It must be awesome to be you (perfect, without fault or flaw) AND to be omniscient.More specifically, it's foolish precisely because the OP knows what to do and is using this to make excuses. Nobody on here is a certified scale repair person; we also can't telepathically fix this problem by saying "use the red one, the other two are wrong." The ONLY solution is for the OP to find a trustworthy scale and use it. She KNOWS this. Asking the question, when she already knows the answer, is a means of delaying the task at hand which is setting goals and starting off on a lifestyle change.
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