Why weighing NUDE is wrong!

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  • wamydia
    wamydia Posts: 259 Member
    How do you weigh yourself?

    Personally, I think weighing yourself in the nude is a recipe for disappointment. First off, scales vary! So if you go to another scale, it's probably going to read a pound one way or another. Second and most importantly, unless your doctor's office is different than anyone I have been to in the past 20 years, they weigh you first with your clothes on before you go into the smaller waiting room. So that's bound to bug people who are trying to lose.

    Even at work, we were doing what we called a "Fat Off" and we always have to weigh with our clothes on. So it made not sense for me to weigh myself nude if every other weigh-in I did outside of my home was going to be with clothes.

    So my tip... find something that weighs as much as your typical outfit. And then if you want to weigh in nude/undies you can use this extra device to make up your clothing difference. I use a low pulley row handle from my gym, it happens to weigh about 4lbs and I weighed my typical outfit and it also weighed about 4lbs.

    The reason I brought this up, is I have heard complaints from people about their weigh-ins outside of their home. I would still try and weigh in at the same time anytime you do, otherwise you will run into differences. But the idea here is that you would limit the difference to a small margin.

    If you disagree, let me know why?

    I guess it depends on what your goal is. My goal isn't so much to see what my exact weight is, but it's to see the relative change between the last time I weighed myself and this time. I'm looking for a measurement that shows my progress. In my opinion, for this purpose you should weigh nude or with the same clothing on each time. Different clothes weigh different amounts and can skew the overall picture of how much your weight has changed.

    On the other hand, if you are losing weight to impress your doctor and don't want to be taken by surprise, weigh with your clothes on. I don't see much point in this myself. I think people who complain about scales outside of their home are just being unrealistic. The weight at the doctor's office is always going to be higher, not just because of your clothes, but because you're probably still wearing shoes and have most likely eaten and drank before you got there. Or maybe you just haven't had a good poo that day. It could be a bunch of little things. I don't think I've ever weighed at the doctor's office and not been at least 5lbs heavier than I was at home, so I never worry about it much.
  • saschka7
    saschka7 Posts: 577 Member
    I guess I could take this topic more seriously if it wasn't called "Why weighing NUDE is wrong!"

    Theft and murder is wrong.

    2 + 3 = 17 is wrong.

    This is wrong:
    *kitten*.jpg

    But weighing nude is just weighing nude.

    I don't think you intended to be bossy, OP, but you came across that way. Just another person on the forums who comes across as someone who is convinced that their way is the only way and that everyone is....wrong.:yawn:
  • mockchoc
    mockchoc Posts: 6,573 Member
    Nude is how I weigh at home. Doctors office is with clothes on and I don't really care what it says since I won't be wearing the same clothes, shoes and have eaten and drank then same each time I'm there. All that counts is naked at home.
  • xDawnsgrace
    xDawnsgrace Posts: 436
    just weigh yourself at home, nude, at the same time every time you weigh, and IT'S NOT WRONG
  • ashleyisgreat
    ashleyisgreat Posts: 586 Member
    I guess I could take this topic more seriously if it wasn't called "Why weighing NUDE is wrong!"

    Theft and murder is wrong.

    2 + 3 = 17 is wrong.

    This is wrong:
    *kitten*.jpg

    But weighing nude is just weighing nude.

    I don't think you intended to be bossy, OP, but you came across that way. Just another person on the forums who comes across as someone who is convinced that their way is the only way and that everyone is....wrong.:yawn:

    That picture!! Hahaha.
  • EmilyEmpowered
    EmilyEmpowered Posts: 650 Member

    Edit: Because that 't' didn't belong there...

    ...and I may need it in a future pos.

    :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
  • MercuryBlue
    MercuryBlue Posts: 886 Member
    I guess I could take this topic more seriously if it wasn't called "Why weighing NUDE is wrong!"

    Theft and murder is wrong.

    2 + 3 = 17 is wrong.

    This is wrong:
    *kitten*.jpg

    But weighing nude is just weighing nude.

    I don't think you intended to be bossy, OP, but you came across that way. Just another person on the forums who comes across as someone who is convinced that their way is the only way and that everyone is....wrong.:yawn:


    Well, that picture just totally made my day.
  • Debbie_Ferr
    Debbie_Ferr Posts: 582 Member
    How do you weigh yourself?

    Personally, I think weighing yourself in the nude is a recipe for disappointment. First off, scales vary! So if you go to another scale, it's probably going to read a pound one way or another.
    If you disagree, let me know why?

    OP, what are you saying ? are you saying if you DON"T weigh in the nude, the scales WON'T vary ???

    =================
    Why are we splitting hairs over 1 or 2 pounds ??
    btw - clothes (sans shoes or jackets) and you'll weigh 2 pounds heavier at the most.
    heck, if you just drank a pint of water, you're a pound heavier !
    if you haven't pooped yet, you're a 1/2 pound to 1 pound heavier !!

    within any given day, your body naturally flectuates 2 to 5 pounds anyways.
  • Nikoruo
    Nikoruo Posts: 771 Member
    I don't really weight in outside my home and if i do it's at the doctor's office. Which i don't really care as much now since i have my own scale. I like to weight my pure natural weight especially considering my clothing themself weigh alot on their own. Seeing as they have to be bigger for me right now they also come with quite the bit of weight. I know this so i'd much rather see my pure weight when i'm weighing myself. I only weigh myself at home again :)
  • DragonSquatter
    DragonSquatter Posts: 957 Member
    Or you could realize that your clothes and the food you eat weigh SOMETHING and not obsess about every little itty bitty fluctuation and scale discrepancy...

    Track your progress on one scale and ignore the rest.

    Just a thought.
  • BurningAway
    BurningAway Posts: 279
    This is a problem for me, im naked about 98% of the time, i will not let my scale tell me how to live my life! ~chucks out window~
  • whierd
    whierd Posts: 14,025 Member
    What?

    Really? Really?

    You think that because when you get weighed at a DOCTOR's OFFICE (seriously, how often are you going to be at a dang Doctor's office?) with your clothes on, that you should always do it at home?

    No. That is a ridiculous suggestion.
  • _Zardoz_
    _Zardoz_ Posts: 3,987 Member
    Why are people so obsessed about what others do..Do what works for you and let others get on with their own thing
  • QueenE_
    QueenE_ Posts: 522 Member
    Clothing and shoes doesn't add on a lot it. Well, it seems like that to me anyways.. If anything you shouldn't weigh yourself at different parts of the day. I'm usually 3 pounds heavier at the end of the day from the food and water that I've ingested. I weigh myself in the morning sometimes nude, sometimes on my pajamas.
  • QueenE_
    QueenE_ Posts: 522 Member
    In not on
  • bonniecarbs
    bonniecarbs Posts: 446 Member
    Like someone else said, I want to know what I weigh, not my clothes. I never weigh anyplace but at home in the nude. I never let my doctor weigh me, and I never let the nurse weigh me at work when we had our annual physicals. So - only once place I weighed myself.
  • Determined518
    Determined518 Posts: 138 Member
    This really doesn't make sense. I mean unless your clothes weigh exactly the same every single day..... That would be the only valid reason for weighing with clothes on.

    PLUS BEING NAKED IS FUNNN!!!!
  • QueenE_
    QueenE_ Posts: 522 Member
    Ya know what? Just ignore my comments, obviously I can't freaking type..
  • Debbie_Ferr
    Debbie_Ferr Posts: 582 Member
    Reading all the posts.....
    This is FANTASTIC material for a Seinfeld episode !!
  • magerum
    magerum Posts: 12,589 Member
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  • LorinaLynn
    LorinaLynn Posts: 13,247 Member
    nothing done when nude is wrong

    Cooking bacon. Ouch.
  • Kureiton84
    Kureiton84 Posts: 20 Member
    I always weigh nude, in the morning, before eating, but after a bowel movement. If I have a doctor's appointment that day, I simply tell him my weight instead of weighing at the office (this is a habit from when I was over 300 lbs, the doctor's scale couldn't weigh me--I know, old school).
  • DragonSquatter
    DragonSquatter Posts: 957 Member
    nothing done when nude is wrong

    Cooking bacon. Ouch.

    Splatter guard.. problem solved.
  • j75j75
    j75j75 Posts: 854 Member
    I rarely weigh myself. If I like what I see when I look in the mirror then I'm all good :smile: :smile:
  • TheEffort
    TheEffort Posts: 1,028 Member
    [OP, what are you saying ? are you saying if you DON"T weigh in the nude, the scales WON'T vary ???

    =================
    Why are we splitting hairs over 1 or 2 pounds ??
    btw - clothes (sans shoes or jackets) and you'll weigh 2 pounds heavier at the most.
    heck, if you just drank a pint of water, you're a pound heavier !
    if you haven't pooped yet, you're a 1/2 pound to 1 pound heavier !!

    within any given day, your body naturally flectuates 2 to 5 pounds anyways.

    This.

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  • Mr_Bad_Example
    Mr_Bad_Example Posts: 2,403 Member
    How do you weigh yourself?

    Personally, I think weighing yourself in the nude is a recipe for disappointment. First off, scales vary! So if you go to another scale, it's probably going to read a pound one way or another. Second and most importantly, unless your doctor's office is different than anyone I have been to in the past 20 years, they weigh you first with your clothes on before you go into the smaller waiting room. So that's bound to bug people who are trying to lose.

    Even at work, we were doing what we called a "Fat Off" and we always have to weigh with our clothes on. So it made not sense for me to weigh myself nude if every other weigh-in I did outside of my home was going to be with clothes.

    So my tip... find something that weighs as much as your typical outfit. And then if you want to weigh in nude/undies you can use this extra device to make up your clothing difference. I use a low pulley row handle from my gym, it happens to weigh about 4lbs and I weighed my typical outfit and it also weighed about 4lbs.

    The reason I brought this up, is I have heard complaints from people about their weigh-ins outside of their home. I would still try and weigh in at the same time anytime you do, otherwise you will run into differences. But the idea here is that you would limit the difference to a small margin.

    If you disagree, let me know why?

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  • SRB8710
    SRB8710 Posts: 90
    The doctor scale is always 5lbs more then my scale at home. But that Is the scale I weigh in on so I will stick with it. I weigh in the morning usually naked. I don't really fret too much about other scales or whatnot.
  • ashleyisgreat
    ashleyisgreat Posts: 586 Member
    How do you weigh yourself?

    Personally, I think weighing yourself in the nude is a recipe for disappointment. First off, scales vary! So if you go to another scale, it's probably going to read a pound one way or another. Second and most importantly, unless your doctor's office is different than anyone I have been to in the past 20 years, they weigh you first with your clothes on before you go into the smaller waiting room. So that's bound to bug people who are trying to lose.

    Even at work, we were doing what we called a "Fat Off" and we always have to weigh with our clothes on. So it made not sense for me to weigh myself nude if every other weigh-in I did outside of my home was going to be with clothes.

    So my tip... find something that weighs as much as your typical outfit. And then if you want to weigh in nude/undies you can use this extra device to make up your clothing difference. I use a low pulley row handle from my gym, it happens to weigh about 4lbs and I weighed my typical outfit and it also weighed about 4lbs.

    The reason I brought this up, is I have heard complaints from people about their weigh-ins outside of their home. I would still try and weigh in at the same time anytime you do, otherwise you will run into differences. But the idea here is that you would limit the difference to a small margin.

    If you disagree, let me know why?

    tobias-funke-never-nude-o.gif

    Never-nudes unite!
  • FMUP
    FMUP Posts: 34 Member
    I weigh myself nude every day, with the scale in the same spot & my feet on the same spot on the scale--- if I change a variable, the measurement changes. Neurotic - well yes... but there is a method to my madness... I only go by my scale's weight & ignore everyone else's. And I focus on the change on my scale - the change, not the actual weight. As long as I am staying the same (at worst) or going down (at best), I'm good. Doesn't matter if it is 1 pound, 5 pounds or a tenth of a pound. Change is change & that's what I'm measuring!:happy:
  • BrendaLee
    BrendaLee Posts: 4,463 Member
    Honestly, I only care how much I weigh on my regular scales at home -- naked, first thing in the morning. I'm not running all over town weighing myself. ;)

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