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CURSE YOU SCALE!!

ForestFairy022
Posts: 99 Member
I swear this thing is busted. It's been 3 weeks and absolutely no change in number whatsoever. I mean, show me I've gained or I've lost something, show me ANYTHING scale!!! Not just the EXACT. SAME. NUMBER. EVERY. TIME!
I don't understand it. I've tested it out with a bag of flour and it worked. Blasted thing from hell! **throws it through mfp window**
I don't understand it. I've tested it out with a bag of flour and it worked. Blasted thing from hell! **throws it through mfp window**
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I feel your frustration0
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It keeps saying 62.2kg. Honestly can it not just change to 62.1 or 62.3 or just do SOMETHING?! Gosh its been exactly the same for 3 weeks. How?! You want to tell me I have the same amount of poop in me that I had 3 weeks ago? ...0
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Switch it to pounds, at least it'll look different0
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You might want to place it somewhere else just to see. The digital scale at the Y has a bad habit of "memorizing" my weight. Once I forgot I had a set of keys in my pocket, so I got off the scale, took them out, waited for the scale to calibrate, and I weighed the exact same thing. A lady about my size got on them and SHE weighed the same as I did! She was excited that she had lost three pounds, but somehow I don't think she did.0
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Haha! Or maybe take the batteries out and put them in again.0
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Screw the scale, my trousers waist is loose.0
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try not using the scale - progress measured by so many other things bar that. most demotivational tool around, IMO.0
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Are you measuring inches as well!?0
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I so know what you mean!0
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a million times yes! My scale has been at the exact same number for about a month. Now, I get that I haven't been weighing my food but the last time i tried MFP, I didn't weigh my food and lost 30 lbs. I wouldn't even mind if the scale went up but it's been exactly the same forever!0
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My scale "sticks."
To unstick it, I hold something to add a couple pounds' worth of weight, then weigh again with just me. It usually shows a different weight the second time - more in line with what I'm expecting. (Sometimes it goes up, sometimes it goes down.)
I know that sounds weird, but a few years ago I spent over three weeks at the same weight no matter what I did (use the bathroom, wear clothing, etc.), and that's when I discovered two or so pounds added and removed from my weight would reset it. I almost wondered if it was a feature of the device. Like the scale* saying "you're weighing yourself too often - wait for more than .4 lbs change next time."
But those .4 lbs matter when you want to see an effect.
* There's a word for believing inanimate objects are out to get you - resistentionalism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resistentialism0 -
at least you're consistent...amiright?0
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