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Why do people keep their scales in the bathroom?

Posts: 137 Member
edited November 2024 in Motivation and Support
I read this question in someone's profile and it got me asking the same thing.

Why not the kitchen - where it might be an effective deterrent as one grabs for the Doritos and cookies?
Why not the living room - where game consoles, computers and TV sets invite bum-iness? Isn't placing the scale in the same area as the couch potato equal opportunity?

A carpenter doesn't hide his tape-measure. Why do dieters hide the scale?

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  • Posts: 10 Member
    So I can weigh myself naked first thing in the morning right before I take a shower.

    But I get your point. It might be useful to have motivation in the kitchen. I know that my weight fluctuates a lot during the day based on how much water I've drunk, what I'm wearing, etc, so it might be more meaningful for me to have inspiring pictures and quotes in the kitchen instead. But whatever works for you. :)
  • Posts: 302 Member
    We do keep ours in the kitchen but my official weigh in scale is my Nintendo Wii
  • Posts: 707 Member
    ditto, I weigh myself in the morning after I've been to the loo, and the bathroom's next door :smile:
  • Posts: 22,281 Member
    Because it's more comfortable than up their butt like I advise.
  • Posts: 2,833 Member
    Because you weigh naked after using the can, of course. Convenience, not "hiding".
  • Posts: 347 Member
    Also ... kitchen is a high traffic area. No one needs to be clunking into a scale that's doesn't need to be there.

    Can you imagine the posts if people had their scales in the kitchen & weighed themselves after every meal???


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    Lmao
  • Posts: 75 Member
    A carpenter normally has a secure place to store a tape measure when it's not in use. Normally, carpenters don't go around screaming to everyone "HEY. I'M A CARPENTER. LOOK AT MY TAPE MEASURE"

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    Or maybe they do...
  • Posts: 1,857 Member
    My scale is in the kitchen! I keep it underneath an arm chair in there. I live in a really old place with uneven floors, and that particular spot in the kitchen (if I pull the scale straight out) happens to be the most consistent and even spot in the house. I don't mind getting naked in the kitchen first thing in the morning! :drinker:
  • Posts: 278 Member
    I agree with the previous posters... because I weigh myself first thing in the morning, naked and the number that appears is personal... unless I chose to share it with someone.

    But think about it... there are those people (me) who have OCD's where if they moved the scale to the kitchen they would find them self hopping on the scale before every meal and if they gained a pound would not eat... yes I know *warning... eating disorder*! Yet, many people deal with eating disorders every day and moving the scale to the kitchen would just feed the eating disorder.
  • Posts: 1,683 Member
    Mine is in the bedroom. I have a Fitbit Aria and they can be skewed by high humidity. Plus my kids were on it all the time.
  • Posts: 137 Member
    Ha. Some of these replies made me laugh.

    For the record I don't own a scale and am not suggesting people should be weighing themselves naked in the kitchen. Can you imagine all the poor traumatized children?
  • Posts: 121 Member
    My bathroom is really small so I keep my scale under the TV stand in the living room on top of the Wii fit board which is no longer working.
  • Posts: 3 Member
    What she said! Plus, I don't want extra junk in the kitchen :)
  • Posts: 446 Member
    I keep mine in the kitchen and weigh my self buck nakid every morning. Live a little folks!! :drinker: :flowerforyou:
  • Posts: 75 Member
    Ha. Some of these replies made me laugh.

    For the record I don't own a scale and am not suggesting people should be weighing themselves naked in the kitchen. Can you imagine all the poor traumatized children?

    Oh. Also since I don't think this has been brought up yet in the discussion (or maybe it has), scales may tend to go wonky if you place them on a soft surface (ie. Carpeting). Most people's living room is either carpet or laminate wood, but both have a give to them due to padding underneath. Unless you have a top-of-the-line scale, it could possibly throw your numbers off by a pound or two. I have a chintzy scale that I got from Target, and I've noticed a difference between the weight being measured on tile vs. on laminate flooring. Just putting it out there.
  • Posts: 844 Member
    My bathroom's tiny and my kitchen is big. My scale lives in the kitchen. I'm up before everyone else in my family anyway, so I weigh, nekkid, in the kitchen. :laugh:
  • Posts: 21 Member
    bathroom is more private..also people like to weigh naked so maybe before hopping right into the shower
  • Posts: 183
    +2 this; ditto plus hard floor for accurate measuring, and also for nekkid, cause that can't/shouldn't happen in the kitchen.
    ^this.
    Also, with 5 kids its the only place I get any privacy.
  • Posts: 620 Member
    I put my scale in my bedroom because the surface is even there, but the spacing of the tiles in my bathroom means there's always a wobbly corner of the scale, unless I place it cockeyed which is annoying to look at.
  • Posts: 22,281 Member
    My scale is in the kitchen! I keep it underneath an arm chair in there. I live in a really old place with uneven floors, and that particular spot in the kitchen (if I pull the scale straight out) happens to be the most consistent and even spot in the house. I don't mind getting naked in the kitchen first thing in the morning! :drinker:

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  • Posts: 22,281 Member
    I put my scale in my bedroom because the surface is even there, but the spacing of the tiles in my bathroom means there's always a wobbly corner of the scale, unless I place it cockeyed which is annoying to look at.

    giggity
  • Posts: 413 Member
    Believe it or not, I actually keep my weight scale in the Kitchen... There is not enough room in my bathroom anyway, anyhow...
  • Posts: 408 Member
    Because I can't stand clutter, and it does not go with the décor. Besides, the bathroom is convenient. If I have to have the scales in view to eat like a normal person, then I'm not that commited to a healthy lifestyle.
  • Posts: 491 Member
    In the kitchen is my way. A reminder every time I enter the food zone.
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