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I used to have this old dial scale that was crap, because it wouldn't stay on zero. I could never get an accurate reading. I would step on when it said three pounds and when I stepped off it would say five! So irritating. Yesterday I decided I was getting a digital scale so I can tell my exact weight and see half-pound losses that are impossible to read on a dial.
Who knows how accurate my weight was today compared to my old scale, but it was lower--so I'm not complaining! I guess I don't know if I really lost a pound or if my old scale was just weighing me higher. At least now I will be able to really see the numbers going down instead of just guessing that the dial is making me weigh two pounds more than yesterday! And I think this scale is pretty accurate. It said it was accurate with in .02 pounds or something. I'm pretty darn excited about it. Is that weird to get so excited over a scale? I really can't diet with out it! I need to see that while I may not notice changes in my body, I can have concrete proof that what I'm doing is working because of the scale.
My scale is a digital, although it doesn't do the 0.xxx or even 0.x lbs, just the whole numbers; which is sometimes just as discouraging.
I want to spend the big bucks and get one of those scales that even gives the body fat & mass indexes, and all that other good stuff. I really do think that would be much less discouraging if even though I may see the lbs going up, I would see the other stuff going down.
The one thing that I do like about my current scale is that although it doesn't give all of the other information, it gives the same exact weight as my doctor's offices; and we all know how much heavier those read than our at-home scales, so it doesn't upset me as much when I weight myself at home before going in and then get there and see a 5-8 lb difference depending upon the office - because there isn't one. :)
I have the fancy one that does BMI and all that, but you have to program it and I haven't bothered with it since I first got it. A couple weeks ago I didn't trust it, so I went to the clinic across the street from my work and weighed there-- and it said the same thing as my home scale.
