Scale Wrong - No really it was

bethany1031

Ok, I'm looking for some thoughts on what you would do or what I should do. Turns out my scale, that I've been using for months, was not calibrated right & I'm actually 9lbs heavier than I originally thought. Which doesn't bode well for my ego, but more importantly throws my awesome weight loss tracker in a complete tizzy. Granted it doesn't change the fact that I've still lost 15 lbs, but the bottom line number is not what I thought.

Would you go back & change your original starting weight to add the 9lbs, & change your current weight to what's right? Knowing you've still lost 15lbs - that doesn't change. But it kind of screws up all the other logs in between.

Would you leave as is, knowing you don't get to log any losses till you actually catch up with the number in your records? (which sounds kind of depressing)

Or do you subtract 9lbs from whatever the scale says so that your log stays with the same flow?

Does this make sense? I'm not good with math so I may have actually confused myself at some point during that post.

wolfchild59

When I got a new scale, the new scale showed me that I was six pounds heavier than my old scale did. The old scale was a dial/spring scale and the new was digital. Given that was planning on using the digital scale from that point forward, I had to take the additional six pounds as my actual weight.

So I went to my weight entries, and starting from my very first weight log (starting weight), I edited every single entry to add six pounds to it.

Like you said, it doesn't alter the amount lost, just makes the current weight and weight entries more accurate. And I'd rather do that task once, then have to alter the scale numbers every single weigh-in time from now until you get a new scale.

Carolyn_79

When I got a new scale, the new scale showed me that I was six pounds heavier than my old scale did. The old scale was a dial/spring scale and the new was digital. Given that was planning on using the digital scale from that point forward, I had to take the additional six pounds as my actual weight.

So I went to my weight entries, and starting from my very first weight log (starting weight), I edited every single entry to add six pounds to it.

Like you said, it doesn't alter the amount lost, just makes the current weight and weight entries more accurate. And I'd rather do that task once, then have to alter the scale numbers every single weigh-in time from now until you get a new scale.

This is what I'd do as well.

treetop57

For me it would depend on how many numbers I had to change. If I weighed in once a week for two months, I'd go in and edit the eight numbers. If I weighed in every day for two months, I would just change the beginning weight to make the loss shown on the ticker right. A graph would have a big jump down at the beginning and big jump up at the end, but that doesn't matter to me.

What I would not do is plan to adjust the new numbers in the future. I would do a little bit of work now and not worry about it again.

bethany1031

Wonderful! Thanks all!!!!!!!