Why weighing NUDE is wrong!

wamydia

How do you weigh yourself?

Personally, I think weighing yourself in the nude is a recipe for disappointment. First off, scales vary! So if you go to another scale, it's probably going to read a pound one way or another. Second and most importantly, unless your doctor's office is different than anyone I have been to in the past 20 years, they weigh you first with your clothes on before you go into the smaller waiting room. So that's bound to bug people who are trying to lose.

Even at work, we were doing what we called a "Fat Off" and we always have to weigh with our clothes on. So it made not sense for me to weigh myself nude if every other weigh-in I did outside of my home was going to be with clothes.

So my tip... find something that weighs as much as your typical outfit. And then if you want to weigh in nude/undies you can use this extra device to make up your clothing difference. I use a low pulley row handle from my gym, it happens to weigh about 4lbs and I weighed my typical outfit and it also weighed about 4lbs.

The reason I brought this up, is I have heard complaints from people about their weigh-ins outside of their home. I would still try and weigh in at the same time anytime you do, otherwise you will run into differences. But the idea here is that you would limit the difference to a small margin.

If you disagree, let me know why?

I guess it depends on what your goal is. My goal isn't so much to see what my exact weight is, but it's to see the relative change between the last time I weighed myself and this time. I'm looking for a measurement that shows my progress. In my opinion, for this purpose you should weigh nude or with the same clothing on each time. Different clothes weigh different amounts and can skew the overall picture of how much your weight has changed.

On the other hand, if you are losing weight to impress your doctor and don't want to be taken by surprise, weigh with your clothes on. I don't see much point in this myself. I think people who complain about scales outside of their home are just being unrealistic. The weight at the doctor's office is always going to be higher, not just because of your clothes, but because you're probably still wearing shoes and have most likely eaten and drank before you got there. Or maybe you just haven't had a good poo that day. It could be a bunch of little things. I don't think I've ever weighed at the doctor's office and not been at least 5lbs heavier than I was at home, so I never worry about it much.

saschka7

I guess I could take this topic more seriously if it wasn't called "Why weighing NUDE is wrong!"

Theft and murder is wrong.

2 + 3 = 17 is wrong.

This is wrong:


But weighing nude is just weighing nude.

I don't think you intended to be bossy, OP, but you came across that way. Just another person on the forums who comes across as someone who is convinced that their way is the only way and that everyone is....wrong.:yawn:

mockchoc

Nude is how I weigh at home. Doctors office is with clothes on and I don't really care what it says since I won't be wearing the same clothes, shoes and have eaten and drank then same each time I'm there. All that counts is naked at home.

xDawnsgrace

just weigh yourself at home, nude, at the same time every time you weigh, and IT'S NOT WRONG

ashleyisgreat

I guess I could take this topic more seriously if it wasn't called "Why weighing NUDE is wrong!"

Theft and murder is wrong.

2 + 3 = 17 is wrong.

This is wrong:


But weighing nude is just weighing nude.

I don't think you intended to be bossy, OP, but you came across that way. Just another person on the forums who comes across as someone who is convinced that their way is the only way and that everyone is....wrong.:yawn:

That picture!! Hahaha.

EmilyEmpowered

Edit: Because that 't' didn't belong there...

...and I may need it in a future pos.

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

MercuryBlue

I guess I could take this topic more seriously if it wasn't called "Why weighing NUDE is wrong!"

Theft and murder is wrong.

2 + 3 = 17 is wrong.

This is wrong:


But weighing nude is just weighing nude.

I don't think you intended to be bossy, OP, but you came across that way. Just another person on the forums who comes across as someone who is convinced that their way is the only way and that everyone is....wrong.:yawn:

Well, that picture just totally made my day.

Debbie_Ferr

How do you weigh yourself?

Personally, I think weighing yourself in the nude is a recipe for disappointment. First off, scales vary! So if you go to another scale, it's probably going to read a pound one way or another.
If you disagree, let me know why?

OP, what are you saying ? are you saying if you DON"T weigh in the nude, the scales WON'T vary ???

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Why are we splitting hairs over 1 or 2 pounds ??
btw - clothes (sans shoes or jackets) and you'll weigh 2 pounds heavier at the most.
heck, if you just drank a pint of water, you're a pound heavier !
if you haven't pooped yet, you're a 1/2 pound to 1 pound heavier !!

within any given day, your body naturally flectuates 2 to 5 pounds anyways.

Nikoruo

I don't really weight in outside my home and if i do it's at the doctor's office. Which i don't really care as much now since i have my own scale. I like to weight my pure natural weight especially considering my clothing themself weigh alot on their own. Seeing as they have to be bigger for me right now they also come with quite the bit of weight. I know this so i'd much rather see my pure weight when i'm weighing myself. I only weigh myself at home again

DragonSquatter

Or you could realize that your clothes and the food you eat weigh SOMETHING and not obsess about every little itty bitty fluctuation and scale discrepancy...

Track your progress on one scale and ignore the rest.

Just a thought.

BurningAway

This is a problem for me, im naked about 98% of the time, i will not let my scale tell me how to live my life! ~chucks out window~

whierd

What?

Really? Really?

You think that because when you get weighed at a DOCTOR's OFFICE (seriously, how often are you going to be at a dang Doctor's office?) with your clothes on, that you should always do it at home?

No. That is a ridiculous suggestion.

_Zardoz_

Why are people so obsessed about what others do..Do what works for you and let others get on with their own thing

QueenE_

Clothing and shoes doesn't add on a lot it. Well, it seems like that to me anyways.. If anything you shouldn't weigh yourself at different parts of the day. I'm usually 3 pounds heavier at the end of the day from the food and water that I've ingested. I weigh myself in the morning sometimes nude, sometimes on my pajamas.

QueenE_

In not on

bonniecarbs

Like someone else said, I want to know what I weigh, not my clothes. I never weigh anyplace but at home in the nude. I never let my doctor weigh me, and I never let the nurse weigh me at work when we had our annual physicals. So - only once place I weighed myself.

Determined518

This really doesn't make sense. I mean unless your clothes weigh exactly the same every single day..... That would be the only valid reason for weighing with clothes on.

PLUS BEING NAKED IS FUNNN!!!!

QueenE_

Ya know what? Just ignore my comments, obviously I can't freaking type..

Debbie_Ferr

Reading all the posts.....
This is FANTASTIC material for a Seinfeld episode !!

magerum

LorinaLynn

nothing done when nude is wrong

Cooking bacon. Ouch.

Kureiton84

I always weigh nude, in the morning, before eating, but after a bowel movement. If I have a doctor's appointment that day, I simply tell him my weight instead of weighing at the office (this is a habit from when I was over 300 lbs, the doctor's scale couldn't weigh me--I know, old school).

DragonSquatter

nothing done when nude is wrong

Cooking bacon. Ouch.

Splatter guard.. problem solved.

j75j75

I rarely weigh myself. If I like what I see when I look in the mirror then I'm all good

TheEffort

[OP, what are you saying ? are you saying if you DON"T weigh in the nude, the scales WON'T vary ???

=================
Why are we splitting hairs over 1 or 2 pounds ??
btw - clothes (sans shoes or jackets) and you'll weigh 2 pounds heavier at the most.
heck, if you just drank a pint of water, you're a pound heavier !
if you haven't pooped yet, you're a 1/2 pound to 1 pound heavier !!

within any given day, your body naturally flectuates 2 to 5 pounds anyways.

This.

Mr_Bad_Example

How do you weigh yourself?

Personally, I think weighing yourself in the nude is a recipe for disappointment. First off, scales vary! So if you go to another scale, it's probably going to read a pound one way or another. Second and most importantly, unless your doctor's office is different than anyone I have been to in the past 20 years, they weigh you first with your clothes on before you go into the smaller waiting room. So that's bound to bug people who are trying to lose.

Even at work, we were doing what we called a "Fat Off" and we always have to weigh with our clothes on. So it made not sense for me to weigh myself nude if every other weigh-in I did outside of my home was going to be with clothes.

So my tip... find something that weighs as much as your typical outfit. And then if you want to weigh in nude/undies you can use this extra device to make up your clothing difference. I use a low pulley row handle from my gym, it happens to weigh about 4lbs and I weighed my typical outfit and it also weighed about 4lbs.

The reason I brought this up, is I have heard complaints from people about their weigh-ins outside of their home. I would still try and weigh in at the same time anytime you do, otherwise you will run into differences. But the idea here is that you would limit the difference to a small margin.

If you disagree, let me know why?

SRB8710

The doctor scale is always 5lbs more then my scale at home. But that Is the scale I weigh in on so I will stick with it. I weigh in the morning usually naked. I don't really fret too much about other scales or whatnot.

ashleyisgreat

How do you weigh yourself?

Personally, I think weighing yourself in the nude is a recipe for disappointment. First off, scales vary! So if you go to another scale, it's probably going to read a pound one way or another. Second and most importantly, unless your doctor's office is different than anyone I have been to in the past 20 years, they weigh you first with your clothes on before you go into the smaller waiting room. So that's bound to bug people who are trying to lose.

Even at work, we were doing what we called a "Fat Off" and we always have to weigh with our clothes on. So it made not sense for me to weigh myself nude if every other weigh-in I did outside of my home was going to be with clothes.

So my tip... find something that weighs as much as your typical outfit. And then if you want to weigh in nude/undies you can use this extra device to make up your clothing difference. I use a low pulley row handle from my gym, it happens to weigh about 4lbs and I weighed my typical outfit and it also weighed about 4lbs.

The reason I brought this up, is I have heard complaints from people about their weigh-ins outside of their home. I would still try and weigh in at the same time anytime you do, otherwise you will run into differences. But the idea here is that you would limit the difference to a small margin.

If you disagree, let me know why?

Never-nudes unite!

FMUP

I weigh myself nude every day, with the scale in the same spot & my feet on the same spot on the scale--- if I change a variable, the measurement changes. Neurotic - well yes... but there is a method to my madness... I only go by my scale's weight & ignore everyone else's. And I focus on the change on my scale - the change, not the actual weight. As long as I am staying the same (at worst) or going down (at best), I'm good. Doesn't matter if it is 1 pound, 5 pounds or a tenth of a pound. Change is change & that's what I'm measuring!:happy:

BrendaLee

Honestly, I only care how much I weigh on my regular scales at home -- naked, first thing in the morning. I'm not running all over town weighing myself.