Angelina Jolie

Which is more accurate a digital or regular scale?

My digital scale reads 2-3 more pounds heavier than the regular one. I also make sure that the non digital scale is directly on zero before I weigh myself, so why am I getting different readings and which one should I take as my true weight?

What\’s up with the gym scales? Could they be rigged or broken?

I’m on a diet (a healthy diet of 1300-1400 calories a day, and is made up of healthy and nutritious food) and I’m a member of Spark People. Lately I have been having trouble tracking my weight loss. I weigh myself every morning after going to the toilet and before eating my breakfast. The scales I use at home is an over decade old analog scales. That scale I know to be about a kilo off. This one says I weigh about 56kg and has shown that I have consistently lost about 500g per week. This is not the scales I am having trouble with. Until recently, the gym scales have been showing me a reading 1.5kg (with the extra 500g being the food I have eaten throughout the day) heavier than the one at home. But lately the digital gym scales have been giving me very strange readings indeed. On Tuesday I was shocked when it gave me a reading of 58.24kg! Over half a kilo heavier than it should have been and the home scales showed no weight increase at all! The next day I weighed myself at the gym and weighed exactly 57.60kg, which is what it should be. I weighed myself yesterday at the gym and I was back up to 58.24kg and again the home scales showed no increase! What is up with the gym scales?!?! It can’t be water retention, the old analog one should have picked up the increase as it had before when I was suffering from it. It can’t be extra muscle either, I have been working out for a while now and I think I have gained the extra muscle ages ago. I am losing a lot of weight. My waist used to be over 82cm and it is about 68cm now. My new size 12 gym pants don’t fit anymore, they feel loose and they threaten to slip down during aerobics even when I tie them up tight. Also, the gym scales have only been doing this for less than a week. Could the digital scales be rigged or broken? It’s right next to a water cooler and people have been spilling a lot of water lately, would that do it? Everyone at the gym uses it, too. Maybe it’s over used?

PS

They have a new set of scales now, a medical style analog one with sliding weights. Maybe people have been making complaints about the digital scales! Anyway…. I’m not sure if I’m using it right, but that one gives me a reading of about 57.5-57.6kg. So it must be the digital one that is the problem.

i have another question?

hey moms and moms to be.i had a doctors appointment today and i got the shock of my life.when they called me in to check my urine blood pressure and weight my nurse told me to step on the scale first because she had other patients.when i stepped on the digital scale it hit 164.5.my jaw dropped open instantly.it sounds good and all but im only 19 weeks and 4 days.at my last months check up i was 154.8.i gained like 10lbs in 1 month alone.when i finally got called to see my midwife she of course told me that im gaining to much weight to fast and escorted me right away to the nutritionist.i sat down and spoke with her and she said im suppose to only eat 3 meals and day and snack like 2 to 3 times only.i tried to explain to her that i do eat 3 meals a day and snack.but i still be hungry and she did not seem to understand.i don’t eat a lot of junk and i don’t even drink soda.i don’t know what caused me to gain so much weight in one month.im 5′4 (this i found out today) and my starting weight was 146.im not a over weight person.my arms are still bony and i always had thick legs and butt.the only place that seems to be getting bigger is my belly.i even found out today that im having a boy (im happy) and he weights 11 ounces already.my question is what do i do when i eat and im still hungry? should i be really worried about how much weight im gaining? i eat plenty of fruits and veggies.Is my baby boy going to be huge? how much did you gain when you were pregnant? does it really matter how much weight i put on? thanks i appreciate all the answers. if this helps im 20 going on 21 and this is my first baby.