Does anyone here use analong scales?

vanityy99
vanityy99 Posts: 2,583 Member
edited December 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
Does anyone here use an analong scale and prefer over a digital scale? Anyone else find them more dependable? They give you one answer and that’s it. Unlike the digital scales that I’ve used, I could get different readings within seconds of stepping on it again.

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  • Remoth
    Remoth Posts: 117 Member
    All digital scales have an accuracy rating, just because they go down to 0.01 lbs on the screen does not mean they are accurate to 0.01lb. The more accurate, the more expensive. Mine is usually good to within +/- 0.4 lbs. I dont worry about it in the slightest since my body weight fluctuates more than that every day. Nothing like 1 cup of water to change the scale by half a pound. If your scale is giving you readings of more than a pound or two off everytime you step on it, maybe its time for a new scale? Analog scales wear out over time as well.
  • vanityy99
    vanityy99 Posts: 2,583 Member
    edited February 2019
    Remoth wrote: »
    All digital scales have an accuracy rating, just because they go down to 0.01 lbs on the screen does not mean they are accurate to 0.01lb. The more accurate, the more expensive. Mine is usually good to within +/- 0.4 lbs. I dont worry about it in the slightest since my body weight fluctuates more than that every day. Nothing like 1 cup of water to change the scale by half a pound. If your scale is giving you readings of more than a pound or two off everytime you step on it, maybe its time for a new scale? Analog scales wear out over time as well.

    The digital scale is actually a brand new one I bought today because my other one was old. I don’t have to drink, or put anything else in my system before the digital scale gives me a different reading. I got my analong scale in 2015.

    The digital scales also showed me that my 8lb weights are 7.3lbs and 7.6 on another. My analong shows me 8lbs.

  • collectingblues
    collectingblues Posts: 2,541 Member
    Yes. I didn’t like how I was obsessing over .2 fluctuations, and I don’t need to know that level of detail. Plus, I got really turned off when the battery started to go, and it was stuck on the same weight for more than two months before the battery finally died.

    My analog is accurate — as confirmed by weighing dumbbells on it, and comparing it to the balance scale at my gym. That’s good enough for me.
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