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confused with my scale please help.

taitai100
taitai100 Posts: 14 Member
edited September 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
Ok so I can't see all the numbers clearly on my scale wen I do it in lbs. So wen I did kg in tried to convert it to lbs my numbers didn't match. So my ? Is. Do the kg number supposed to match the lbs number always?

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  • daniekay7
    daniekay7 Posts: 2
    1kg=2.2ibs. Are you taking the kg wt. and MULTILE by 2.2 to get ibs? and YES, the number would match if your doing the convertion correct.
  • taitai100
    taitai100 Posts: 14 Member
    Yea my scale looks like it says 265.6 in lbs but kg it says 121.9 so Idk wat number to go by
  • Vicky14174
    Vicky14174 Posts: 715 Member
    268.18 lbs = 121.9 kg. you weigh 268.19 pounds now.
  • hottottie11
    hottottie11 Posts: 907 Member
    It means the same thing just different units...so by whatever is easiest for me. I'm the in the US so I use lbs
  • ultimategar
    ultimategar Posts: 96 Member
    your scale is nuts.
  • taitai100
    taitai100 Posts: 14 Member
    I agree my scale is making me mad its the biggest loser scale and its new.... last wk the nubers matched but this wk its not so shud I just go by the kg weight always?
  • kevanos
    kevanos Posts: 304 Member
    weird. I don`t know if you re-zero your scale when in kg and in lbs.
  • lacroyx
    lacroyx Posts: 5,754 Member
    have and hand weights or something you can measure? like a 5 lbs dumbell? weigh it on the scale and see if it's correct.
  • taitai100
    taitai100 Posts: 14 Member
    Yea I rezero the scale after kg and rezero before lbs.. thanks everybody for the feed back. I'm gonna go by kg for now on.
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