Look what fun fact i found about scales?

[Womanvsmirror 314]

Here’s a fun fact that most scale manufacturers don’t want you to know: it is considered “normal” for a digital scale to have at least a 1% variation. Doesn’t seem like much, right? Let’s take an average guy who weighs 200 pounds as an example. With a 1% variation, the manufacturer will consider it normal for the scale to read 198 pounds or 202 pounds. That’s a 4-pound difference

And here I am going crazy weighing myself 10 times a day. Let me change that to "FUN STATEMENT "

http://www.myweighin.net/find-accurate-scales/

Edited April 28, 2016 by Womanvsmirror

[Babbs 14,681]

It actually more common for our bodies to have a 1% variation. You can't expect to weigh the same when you step on the scale morning, noon and night can you? I weigh 2 pounds more in the evening than I do in the morning. Why? Water retention, eating all day, excersise, hormones, you name it.

I've fluctuated up and down 3 pounds for almost a year in maintenence. You get used to the fluctuations. It's just our bodies doing thier thang.

[Womanvsmirror 314]

It was just a fun thing I found, if you knew my struggle this week you would get it.. my last weigh-in is tomorrow and I've been freaking out about how scales fluctuate so much it's caused Great concern for me all week and that's why I posted this

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[Babbs 14,681]

It was just a fun thing I found, if you knew my struggle this week you would get it.. my last weigh-in is tomorrow and I've been freaking out about how scales fluctuate so much it's caused Great concern for me all week and that's why I posted this

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If I knew your struggle this week?? I've had the surgery too, how would I not know your struggle?? I'm no different than you are. Except I've learned not to let the numbers on the scale rule my entire life......

[Womanvsmirror 314]

Yeah I can tell you're so supportive. Everyone's journey is different and I'm entitled to go through mine and if I'm not at the point where the scale no longer bothers me then fine I'm okay with that I haven't had surgery yet currently going through the insurance hoops so for me it does rule my entire life. for me the number on the scale is the difference between an approval and a denial

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[Babbs 14,681]

Yeah I can tell you're so supportive. Everyone's journey is different and I'm entitled to go through mine and if I'm not at the point where the scale no longer bothers me then fine I'm okay with that I haven't had surgery yet currently going through the insurance hoops so for me it does rule my entire life. for me the number on the scale is the difference between an approval and a denial

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I apologize. I didn't realize you were in the process of getting approved for surgery. I do understand the numbers ARE important during that time frame for insurance purposes.

No need to get shitty with me.

[ajg91342 36]

Pretty sure it was you @@Babbs being shitty...which isn't unusual considering the posts I've seen from you. Maybe you should take a look at the particular forum before responding next time.

[Womanvsmirror 314]

You got snarky when I clarified why I posted this article I found about scales. But since I'm already starving myself and to make sure I get an approval and it is making me crazy(hence why I said if you knew). Which was surprising the VIP's and Vets are usually pretty helpful. But I guess wls is no different than anything else when someone has succeeded, they often forget how hard it is for people just starting.

[Recycled 2,182]

Actually 1% would be 2 lbs at 200lbs not 4 lbs. You would not consider the total range on either side of 200lbs as a 1% variant. That would be 2%. But I digress.

Even more important, is the scales accuracy. I have calibrated several my scales using the known weight of water/gallon and my present scale at 200 lbs was off by 10.2 lbs. (reading over of course) And it was not adjustable.

Mechanical devices are typically inaccurate. As a pilot we have become accustomed to reading instruments that have correction cards showing the instruments corrections based on calibrations.

It really isn't that big a deal regarding a persons weight.......so I put it here as just food for thought.

[Womanvsmirror 314]

I thought it was the lack of food making me read to much into it

Pretty sure it was you @@Babbs being shitty...which isn't unusual considering the posts I've seen from you. Maybe you should take a look at the particular forum before responding next time.

[Babbs 14,681]

@@ajg91342

I'm sorry, was I speaking to you?

I apologized to the OP. I really don't need your 2 cents who ever you are with your 1 post on this forum. But thanks for your input. I'll really cherish it.

[ajg91342 36]

Definitely not! Good luck to you in this process. It is definitely stressful! I am currently waiting for insurance approval, so no surgery for me just yet.

[ajg91342 36]

@@Babbs

Funny thing is I've been viewing these forums for several months now to gather information as I go through my process. Yet you in particular have stood out from all other posters from the very beginning in a very unflattering way. So congrats, you earned my first post!

[Womanvsmirror 314]

Good luck , please update me , when you are approved. Hearing other approvals make me smile. I submit on Monday.

[Dub 9,922]

@@Womanvsmirror

You nailed it on the scale variations.

Back in the beginning of my bariatric process in June 2015, I shopped around online and bought the "big boy" model. It was the first talking scale I've ever owned, too. Grrrrrrrrrrr. Used to hate hoping on that thing and hearing it proclaim the big numbers so loudly. Has no volume knob, either.

Good thing it doesn't have volume control.....'cause there are days now where I'd crank that thang up way too loud and proud.

I have another set, too. It routinely weighs me 3-5 pounds less than the Big Boy scale does.

The scale can give you the same number for days on end......yet you KNOW there is work being done in your body. It certainly isn't the only metric, but it's on that cling to. I weigh almost every day after waking up. Can't help it. I need to see that number. It helps keep me focused on my behaviors and the overall impact to my goals.

As stated before......there have been times when scale didn't move for a week.....yet I'd have to use new holes on my belt. It's a strange dynamic that's at play in our post sleeved effort.....

Some only weigh every so often. I gotta get my scale fix daily. Right or wrong.....doesn't matter to me....hoping up on there makes me feel good.

@@Womanvsmirror

You nailed it on the scale variations.

Back in the beginning of my bariatric process in June 2015, I shopped around online and bought the "big boy" model. It was the first talking scale I've ever owned, too. Grrrrrrrrrrr. Used to hate hoping on that thing and hearing it proclaim the big numbers so loudly. Has no volume knob, either.

Good thing it doesn't have volume control.....'cause there are days now where I'd crank that thang up way too loud and proud.

I have another set, too. It routinely weighs me 3-5 pounds less than the Big Boy scale does.

The scale can give you the same number for days on end......yet you KNOW there is work being done in your body. It certainly isn't the only metric, but it's on that cling to. I weigh almost every day after waking up. Can't help it. I need to see that number. It helps keep me focused on my behaviors and the overall impact to my goals.

As stated before......there have been times when scale didn't move for a week.....yet I'd have to use new holes on my belt. It's a strange dynamic that's at play in our post sleeved effort.....

Some only weigh every so often. I gotta get my scale fix daily. Right or wrong.....doesn't matter to me....hoping up on there makes me feel good.