Scales.. weird things.

i hope you're taking all this in tz?

Hangover in the Borders! Will read later

Our digital scales need to be zeroed on each use by placing one foot on the platform on a solid floor.

The scales came with extra feet to be used on a carpeted floor.

Given normal day-to-day variation in human weight, one day's weight isn't massively important. (Good pun there, hope you appreciate it.)

The important thing is trend. The right tool seems to be a weighted average. There's a good app for that on iPhone called True Weight. Just make sure you back it up once a month.

It doesn't answer the interesting question is why the scale is so imprecise. Mine is too, even on wood floors. (See https://www.ncsu.edu/labwrite/Experimental%20Design/accuracyprecision.htm)

But I think generally your body's daily fluctuation will overawe you scale's imprecision.

Put a new battery and make sure the scale is not on a soft surface (carpet). Weight yourslef first in the morning. This will give you the most accurate result

This is true I weigh myself as soon as I get out of bed and been to do what I need to do. It can be a pain weighing yourself daily but you just get used to it, I have to do it due to fluid retention.

And now for something completely different... I am on a self-imposed diet and as such I weigh myself every morning on digital scales. But I have noticed something odd, the reading on the scales depends on where I put them or in fact, when I stand on them. This is a mostly even floor, but it can fluctuate as much as 1 kilogram between weigh-ins. This morning I stood on them, it said I had gained 300 grams, my wife called me for something, I went back to the scales a minute later and all of a sudden I had lost those 300 grams plus another 200... I moved the scales a foot to the left and all of a sudden I had gained 500 grams...

 

Can I conclude my scales are borked? Or is there some sort of explanation for this, like minute changes in pressure from underneath?

As someone who has lost 9 stones (gastric sleeve) I can give a little advice.

Weigh yourself weekly.

Place your scales approx in the same place when you use them.

Good luck.

Angel1.

I don't like digital scales they never give the reading I want ! Instead of scales you could try measuring yourself around the stomach and keep a record to see if any weight loss has happened. Remembered men put on weight around the stomach just an idea.

Thanks for all the advice people Despite a hedonistic 5 days I have been able to control things quite well, or I have found a way to deceive the scales

I am going to accept there is a variance and take the week-to-week readings as indicators of a trend, as long as that trend is down I will be happy. @crookedspire - I automatically do, one of the reasons I want to lose weight is because I am fed up with having more and more clothes that don't fit well. Now that I am reversing 'the growth' I am beginning to notice I fit stuff again. As I haven't thrown my old clothes out I should be able to track more or less to where I was