Scale differences

Amy_B

I bought a $6 non-digital scale today b/c I'm mad at my digital. The non-digi has me weighing 3 lbs less. Which should I believe? I weighed myself under the same conditions. Also, if my digi battery is dying, could it give false numbers?

Vanessa414

Bah. i hate digital scales. I did the same thing actually. Went for the dial one instead because my digi would give me all sorts of messed up numbers. I even changed the batteries and that didn't help. I'm just sticking with my dial one unless I somehow get a bunch of money to buy an expensive digital one.

MrsTomy

All i know is I had a cheapo non-digital scale and it was soooo off! On several occasions i weighed before and after using the restroom (weird, i know) and the silly thing had me weighing 1-2lbs more AFTER! Plus if you step on it a few times in a row and stand on different parts of the scale i could be + or - up to 5lbs!!! Any way I got a better one (i think i only spent ~$25) and I love it! It does body fat % (not sure how accurate that is...but its interesting!

Point is - i'm not sure if your digital scale is good or not, but the cheap non-digital ones have NOT been very reliable for me in the past!

Good luck! :flowerforyou:

hmo4

I have a supposedly high-tech Weight Watchers digital scale and I can have an up to 2 lb difference if I weigh in over and over. Never know what to pick. I usually go with the highest.

planetcitygirl73

I have had two digital scales most recently. I think the first one was from a company called Healthy Lifestyle or something like that and I got so frustrated with it being all over the place every time I stepped on it. So I got a WW scale and at first it was the exact same number each time. However, if I move it to like one foot any direction on the floor, it can give me different readings. I wonder if i have some kind of bathroom gravity anomaly :laugh: . Still, I'll get on it about 3 times and see if I get any repeating numbers or ones that are really close and pick one of those. Not the best, but I don't know what else to do since I also worry with those dial scales that they will "bounce" the number too high or low when it turns fast like it does...and I also need to know the decimal points of the weight loss such as .4 or .7

angele

so which scale and how do we know if lost or not? anyone know?

sassiebritches

I have had two digital scales most recently. I think the first one was from a company called Healthy Lifestyle or something like that and I got so frustrated with it being all over the place every time I stepped on it. So I got a WW scale and at first it was the exact same number each time. However, if I move it to like one foot any direction on the floor, it can give me different readings. I wonder if i have some kind of bathroom gravity anomaly :laugh: . Still, I'll get on it about 3 times and see if I get any repeating numbers or ones that are really close and pick one of those. Not the best, but I don't know what else to do since I also worry with those dial scales that they will "bounce" the number too high or low when it turns fast like it does...and I also need to know the decimal points of the weight loss such as .4 or .7

Hey I had the same crazy anomaly in my bathroom, so my scale is now in the kitchen!!!!!!!!!!!! EHEHEHEHEHEHE

newDZ

my scale depending if i'm facing north or south (i'm being honest) sometimes gives a different reading in the morning, but if i jump on at night both directions give me the same reading. WHATDAHELLLL!

Amy_B

Well, another reason I was questioning my non-digi is because my grandma's non-digi had me at less than my digi says also. I don't know what to think.