new scale -- I have been deceived!

I'm for starting fresh. It feels good to me. Keep counting the weight you've lost and judge your progress based on how you feel!

Step 1: cry

Step 2: reconfigure everything to the "new" weight.

Step 3: Cuss. A lot.

Step 4: Cry some more

Step 5: work it out, and move on.

I know I bought a new one too and I gained 10 pounds! It was awful. However, I just adjusted my starting number and my current number. So it still show I lost the same amount, I just have an extra 10 pounds to lose to reach my goal!

i would just adjust your current weight to this scale and move forward, dont go back to your start weight because you just dont know, maybe you gained some water this weekend and it isnt ALL the new scale...
it doesnt matter in the end cause you are where you are because of what you have been doing...keep doing the right things and that 5lbs might be gone in a week or two or more if you really step it up a notch....

I think home scales are pretty notoriously inaccurate. However, they certainly can be useful in showing the directional nature of your improvement. One thing you can do is take your scale with you to your doctor's office or to another scale that you trust. Most home scales have a small dial that allows you to calibrate the scale a bit. You might be able to re-set it to be more accurate.

--Carter

Assuming you were weighing on the same scale the whole time, it doesn't take away what you have done so far!!! But part of this whole process is "getting real" with ourselves. Since that is the scale you are now using, you should adjust your weight to reflect what it says. You might not like it, but if it's new, it's probably a bit more accurate. I know mine matches right up with the scale @ the Dr.'s office.

We had 2 scales in the house and I definitely liked one better than the other since it tended to weigh a couple of pounds lighter:-) Had to replace the "light" scale and now they both say pretty much the same thing.

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If it were me, and this is just me, I would go through and add five to all my weigh ins or at least the first one. That way my loss recording would be on. I don't want those two numbers dueling in my head. It says this but really its this blahblahblah...

The digital can show different read-outs from one second to the next depending on what kind you have. Mine will show up to a 1 lb difference when I step on it. For instance, I might be 215.2 (which I am not, for the record) after a couple of immediate attempts at stepping on it and then on the third successive attempt it might jump to 216.4. I always step on/off it and record my weight 3 or 4 times and then use the highest figure. I'm sure you've done it already, but try weighing yourself a few times in a row and see if the weight changes.

LOL I like that response!

It’s like the body fat calculators. Since being submerged in water is the most accurate but not usually accessible unless you are a professional athlete the hand-held ones doctors use are 4% less than the one's you buy in the store and step on like a scale. I therefore like the doctor-used ones especially since they warn you that you can’t be pregnant to use it due to the electrode while the standing one doesn't have that warning (therefore hand held must be more accurate/powerful right?) I researched a bit later and found the reason for the difference in percentage is b/c the electrode has to go through more fat first through your feet than the hand-held one that goes to your organs and major muscles (but not largest) first.

Does that make the arm-one more accurate, not sure.

that sucks! i'd return the damn thing for one i like the numbers better on

I like the idea of getting one with better numbers.


I would also just verify your weight by placing the scale in a different spot. For me I have tiled down stairs. Some of the tiles are not even with the one next it. So, I have to make sure it is on one tile only to get an accurate weight. Unless of course I like the uneven weight measurement! LOL

I agree with Carter Grt and RminVA I recently had a new scale and weighed myself at work for our BL competition which is on a doctors scale and my scale at home is pretty close only three pound less than doctors scale but really not even that considering I weigh myself in much lighter clothing at home so good luck