Which scales are the most accurate.

Kst76
Kst76 Posts: 935 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
I have a regular digital scale but every room I weigh differs from 1- 4 pounds. I have all hard wood floors, but our apartment is very old so i'm sure the floor is very uneven.
Are there any scales that you can calibrate and adjust for the uneven floor surface?
I currently am weighing at the sames spot all the time, however, I would still like to log my actual weight as accurate as I can.
Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated.

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  • bellaesprita000
    bellaesprita000 Posts: 384 Member
    I weigh myself daily on a digital scale that I keep in the bathroom and once a week at the gym's manual scale. The weights are usually within 2 lbs of each other. At home I do it naked with no clothes while at the gym I'm fully dressed with trainers on.
  • bellaesprita000
    bellaesprita000 Posts: 384 Member
    I use the garmin index smart scale at home
  • Kst76
    Kst76 Posts: 935 Member
    bellaesprita wrote: »
    I use the garmin index smart scale at home

    Thanks! I looked it up on Amazon. It looks fancy..lol..
    But I'm sure it's a good one.
  • bellaesprita000
    bellaesprita000 Posts: 384 Member
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    karintalley wrote: »
    bellaesprita wrote: »
    I use the garmin index smart scale at home

    Thanks! I looked it up on Amazon. It looks fancy..lol..
    But I'm sure it's a good one.

    It was a gift. I like that I can track other things like BMI, body fat%, muscle mass, etc. on it. Makes me happy to see my overall weight and body fat% go down while muscle mass stays the same.
  • bellaesprita000
    bellaesprita000 Posts: 384 Member
    lorrpb wrote: »
    Use one scale only, at the same time and in the same place every time. Every scale varies a bit and the exact number is less important than the trend and a consistent weigh in method.

    Now I do. But in the beginning of my journey, I suppose I was in disbelief at my progress that I would compare the weights on the both scales. Like the OP, I was concerned with accuracy.
  • Kst76
    Kst76 Posts: 935 Member
    Yeah..I weigh on one scale and it's progressing down. I was happy. Then I weigh myself in another room and I was like..wtf! Lol
    I moved scale back to original spot and I'm gonna forget this ever happen.
  • AnvilHead
    AnvilHead Posts: 18,343 Member
    edited October 2017
    karintalley wrote: »
    Yeah..I weigh on one scale and it's progressing down. I was happy. Then I weigh myself in another room and I was like..wtf! Lol
    I moved scale back to original spot and I'm gonna forget this ever happen.

    Don't weigh yourself in another room, or on any other scale. Weigh at the same time, in the same place, under the same conditions, wearing the same clothing (or lack thereof) every time.

    My scale is on a tile floor in my bathroom. I literally keep the location within a few millimeters from weigh-in to weigh-in, by centering it against adjacent grout lines in the tile. My routine is identical every morning - I get out of bed, go pee, and weigh naked before eating or drinking anything. Since I use a wi-fi scale, my weight is then automatically logged to several apps which track my weight (Nokia Healthmate, Happy Scale, Trendweight, Garmin Connect and Apple Health). The process is completely transparent to me - I just step on the scale and step off when it's done, it handles the rest.

    There will still be day to day variations, which is perfectly normal. Water/glycogen retention, stomach contents, hormonal factors (TOM for women), etc., so your weight will always fluctuate from day to day, sometimes by several pounds. Best practice is to log your weights in a trend app such as Happy Scale (iOS), Libra (Android) or Trendweight/Weightgrapher (web), and monitor the overall trend rather than daily readings.

    [ETA:] If you step on a different scale at the gym, doctor's office, grocery store, etc. at a different time of day, wearing different clothes and after eating/drinking/exercising/sweating/etc., don't be shocked in the least that it gives you a different weight than your home scale. If you think about it, it's perfectly logical that your weight would be different in those conditions.

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