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    • Discrepancy between digital scales and MFP

    Posts: 2,742 Member
    edited November 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
    After not getting below my low weight in May, I finally did this morning and noticed that my scales weigh in 2/10 of an inch, but MFP translates that as two ounces. So when I registered my weight as 142.8 from 143.2, it showed a 10 oz. loss instead of less than a six oz. one. So I re-entered my weight as 143.0 to round up and now of course it shows only a 2 oz. loss.

    Rather than try to convert tenths of pounds into ounces, I'm just going to start rounding up to the next half-pound. Does anyone have an easy formula for this?

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    • Posts: 10,477 Member
      edited August 2015
      Formula as in Excel ? Not sure I quite understand, 142.8 is 142 lbs and 8/10th of a lb as implied by the decimal point. 142 lbs 8 ozs would be 142.5 lbs.
    • Posts: 350 Member
      This is why metric is the future.
    • Posts: 6,652 Member
      This is why better programming should be the future. It's already in base ten. It's mind boggling that MFP would treat decimals as ounces rather than tenths of a pound.
    • Posts: 15,149 Member
      DeguelloTex wrote: »
      This is why better programming should be the future. It's already in base ten. It's mind boggling that MFP would treat decimals as ounces rather than tenths of a pound.

      Right!
    • Posts: 567 Member
      I just tested it by putting in142.8 and it stayed at 142.8. Maybe it is a problem with your settings?
    • Posts: 763 Member
      Mine doesn't say oz anywhere. I was at 117.6, entered 116.8 today and it says I lost 0.8 lbs. Where does it say oz? on your feed?
    • Posts: 8,171 Member
      My MFP also does tenths of a lb. I checked it again. Where do you see it in ounces?????
    • Posts: 14,260 Member
      Yeah I'm not seeing ounces either.
    • Posts: 268 Member
      Does your scale do kilograms and pounds? My Canadian one does. You could switch it and it will be a lot easier, a lot more accurate and more straight forward to log as it's always in 10ths. Plus you'll lose like 80lbs overnight
    • Posts: 11,463 Member
      What is 2/10 inch on your scales?
    • Posts: 651 Member
      You don't need to adjust anything really. There's no reason to believe that your home scale is 100% accurate. You want to results to be precise (meaning highly repeatable) rather than accurate (meaning objectively correct). As long as the numbers are going down, it doesn't really matter WHAT the number is.
    • Posts: 651 Member
      kyrannosaurus wrote: »
      This is why metric is the future.

      Metric is the present friend, the USA is livin' in the past!
    • Posts: 9,603 Member
      I didn't know MFP did that. That does suck.

      Does this help? http://www.aqua-calc.com/convert/weight/ounce-to-pound
    • Posts: 8,171 Member
      Kalikel wrote: »
      I didn't know MFP did that. That does suck.

      It doesn't. OP is confused.

    • Posts: 2,742 Member
      lorrpb wrote: »
      What is 2/10 inch on your scales?

      A typo :) Nice catch!
    • Posts: 16,049 Member
      Zedeff wrote: »
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      Metric is the present friend, the USA is livin' in the past!

      It's about time you guys came over to easier way :bigsmile:

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