Which scales are right help!!

Have you calibrated your digital scale? There should be instructions for how to reset it to actual 0 if that makes sense.

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ldalvarado wrote: »

Have you calibrated your digital scale? There should be instructions for how to reset it to actual 0 if that makes sense.

my first thought was also calibration; If you don't leave your scale in the same place then every time you put it down you have to recalibrate. Mine I have to tap the scale to turn on, and then leave it alone off until it reads zero and shuts itself off; afterwards I can step on to turn it on and weigh. Some you have to tap on, let it zero, then hop on before it shuts itself off.

I had a digital scale that weighed me the same every week (I think it had a memory built in to prevent minor fluctuations) and that annoyed me so I bought a second digital. The second scale weighs consistently 1-1.5 lbs heavier; I worried over how to approach this (because I wanted to use the one without a built in memory, but didn't want to "put on" 1.5lbs) then after worrying with it I decided it didn't matter.

In the end it helped me to realize my goals are to lose weight, and once I'm happy to maintain there. The numbers can be off by 1, 1.5, 8, or 1,000lbs as long as they are consistent (if you're losing then it shows you going down). I had a correction day in my weigh-ins (weighed with the old and new scale and plugged in the old scale on the day before), and it looks funny on my weight loss chart; but I've grown to be okay with that.

As far as precision, the only way to really know would be for you to weigh something approximately your weight (because scales may have more or less error at 20lbs than 200lbs), and weigh the same object in the same conditions on a calibrated scale (shipping scale maybe). I would like to think a mechanical scale would be more accurate, but it's all in the assembly; also would like to think your doctor's scale would be more accurate