Bought a digital scale today!

Turns out i'm 126 and not 120 as my old scale said! Guess it's time to get back on the healthy eating and boost the exercise...anyone else have that unhappy suprise when making the switch? :D it's a little further to my goal of 115 then i thought, ah well!

I hate digital scales!!!

I bought an analog (the old fashioned needly kind).  it always tells me the exact same weight every time I stand on it, get off, stand on it again.  my digitals all gave me different weights within seconds of each weighin.  very frustrating.

Anyone else hate digital scales for the same reason that tamji does?

I want to know because I need a scale with bigger sized numbers on it.  That or start eating more carrots for my vision.

i have a digital scale that likes to go crazy every once in a while also. it is very frusterating. especially when ur doing every thing right. actually when is a good time to weigh urself or does it even matter

I just take the first weight my digital scale gives me...the varience seems to be about .4 lbs which I can handle.

my digital scale acts weird sometimes but i like and i weigh myself 3 times right after each other and then take the average. The best time to weigh yourself is in the morning because your weight fluctuates throughout the day.

The really best time to weight yourself is yes, in the morning but especially after you've past all your liquids and solids into the john and before your shower.

do you keep your scales on the carpet or tile? because if you weigh yourself on carpet the weight can fluctuate depending on how dense the carpet it.

 

Years ago my digital scales fluctuated so wildly they were unhelpful and I threw them out and got an old needle one. HOWEVER, the needly one (good brand, not cheap) really had me "guesstimating" as far as half pounds, etc. and for ME I need all the motivation I can get. I like to see even a ".2 loss".

 I researched digitals again, went with the best rated brand, mid price range model ($40-coupon=$32), and there is MUCH less fluctuating than with my old digital. It may vary .2 or at most .4, so I usually just take the first weight. You can figure that if it is slightly slightly off in one direction one day, some other day it will be a tiny tiny bit off in the other, so it all averages out.

WARNING: When switching to digital, I discovered my old needle scale had been UNDERweighing me by almost two pounds!! So I went back and adjusted my records to reflect the corrected weights, and now it is all as accurate as possible.

Just don't get discouraged when you see your REAL weight in one inch numbers... can be a shock!

Love my digital scale, has a hydration and body fat % thing on it to, but I dont trust those at all because those vary wildly depending on the moisture in the room and on my feet ;P
sometimes it says im 20% BMI sometimes it says im 60% BMI :P

Weight never goes nuts tho.

You can also put your height, age, etc in and set a goal and it saves your weight history and each time you weigh yourself it tells you how much you've lost and how far away from your goal you are.  And has presets for 4 people if you are in a household.

Here's a url to it:
http://www.healthometerstore.com/product_deta il.asp?T1=HOM+BFM955%2D60&;.
Got mine at wal mart for bout $45. 
" Health o meter® Wt. Tracking & Body Fat"
:)

Ijust bought a digital scale as well, with the hydration and the bf% and all, and I agree, I have gotten between 21 and 26 % bf, which is a very great difference.  I like the digital ones though because when I bend down to read the analogs, or shift my weight, etc, it comes out differently, whereas I can actulaly read the digital.