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Its that time of year again, to grab a massive bargain and my scales were $160 off normal price. I paid $40. Facts aside. I hate them, they are a full body analysis, whoopee and it makes me instantly 2 kilos heavier, it does the same to husband.
I guess I'll adapt, matter of having to, I threw out the old ones.

you'll lose weight still, but from a higher level

I was swearing at my old ones so much because of inaccuracies like telling me that just one glass of water weighed 2kg, that he went out and bought an all sing all dance scales. I am so heavy that they refuse to measure body fat and water percentage for me, even though my son who is even bigger with a higher BMI weighs properly on it. I also haven't figured out how to send it to my PC yet so I get a chart of everyone's progress.
The worst of it is that as soon as the new ones were set up and working, the old ones decided to start working properly again.
At least its only 2kg, you could go to your doctors, get weighed there and find that their scales show you 4kg up.

[carorees]

Think yourselves lucky! When I got new scales they weighed me 10kg heavier

Sometimes I think I'm very lucky my scales only display half kg intervals, because it stops me from obsessing over irrelevant dips and bumps. Other times I really want better scales, to properly celebrate every 100 g lost!

Forewarned by your hard-won experiences, I weighed myself wearing jacket and shoes and all before going to the store and trying the scales I've had my eye on. They did not display the same weight, and said I was significantly heavier than the scales at home say.

At least I didn't waste any money.

[carorees]

Sadly my new scales agreed with the doctor's ones, so I had to assume my old ones were way off! Still, I should not get a shock next time they weigh me at the doc's!

My son is seeing a specialist as he will need further surgery soon (the reason he is on the 5:2 with me). He went to the specialists clinic and was shown to be 12kg down from the previous visit only 4 weeks before. We both knew they must be wrong but no one would take any notice, so he weighed himself at the doctors surgery which showed a 3kg loss. I would hate to think of someone being weighed for a procedure and the anesthetist being given the wrong weight and calculating the wrong dosage based on it.

Hi:

My scales are about 30 years old. Dial and pointer kind. I just looked at them and it seems they are adjusted to be about 10 pounds off from 0. I vaguely remember that a long time ago I tried to 'adjust' them to some other scale I had been on that had another number for my weight. I hope that other scale was right, or I've been going through the years thinking I'm 10 pounds heavier than I really am.

Reading the posts here, and seeing people distraught as a result of their scales showing a 300 gram gain or only a 100 gram loss, I wonder if I really belong. Do I really need fancy scales to lose weight on 5:2?

My son is seeing a specialist as he will need further surgery soon (the reason he is on the 5:2 with me). He went to the specialists clinic and was shown to be 12kg down from the previous visit only 4 weeks before. We both knew they must be wrong but no one would take any notice, so he weighed himself at the doctors surgery which showed a 3kg loss. I would hate to think of someone being weighed for a procedure and the anesthetist being given the wrong weight and calculating the wrong dosage based on it.

The last sentence here has always been my fear. I believe true weight is no clothes and then the anesthetist gives you a dosage of knock out juice based on clothing weight. I hope they take these points in to consideration.