Scales lie

[Mudgy6 88]

Why is it that my scale at home is always lower than at the office. Big let down. Mine said 219. At the office, the scale said 226. Dont understand.

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[dhrguru 1,238]

weight fluctuates greatly, add in the variations differing scales gives you-- and it could drive a sane person mad. What time of day do you weigh at home? Are you dressed? What time of day was your appointment?

Is your home scale digital? If so make sure the batteries are fresh. Level flat surface is important too.

Fluctuation is the reason I take the average of my daily weigh ins.

[Mudgy6 88]

I do it different times a day

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[James Marusek 5,244]

Your body will fluctuate several pounds throughout the day. I always weigh myself first thing in the morning butt naked. That is the lowest reading of the day. But after I eat and drink I can gain a pound or two. When I add my clothes, my wallet, my shoes, my leather belt, my glasses. That can easily add another 5 pounds.

[eclecticwingtips 130]

scales are an indicator. Just pick the scale to use as you baseline. They are calibrated differently so will often gjve different numbers. My surgeons is always a few kg more

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[Thecloude1 342]

I'm more into the inches being lost then the number on the scale [emoji3][emoji106]

[Djmohr 6,965]

Weight fluctuates depending on the day, your Water retention, what you are wearing, etc.

I weigh myself in the morning naked..... And I go by what my scale tells me because I am on it at the same time in the same circumstances.

[WLSResources/ClothingExch 3,444]

You can rely on one scale (the doctor's, probably) for accuracy and the other (yours) for consistency, that is, just seeing your weight go down.

Not quite an aside, early in my surgery life I was a stickler for noting tenths of pounds as most of us are. After a while, it occurred to me that, when talking of losing 100 lbs or something like that, what's a few pounds give or take? The main thing is to see my weight going down whether I know the precise number at any time. Now when I'm weighed at my practice office, I scribble down the number on the scale, while the med assistant deducts two lbs for clothes and shoes. I don't care.

[DangerMouse007 105]

What I usually do on my appointment days with my surgeon is weigh myself at home nude (which is what I consider to be my official weight since I've been doing it that way since my first appointment with my surgeon six months before my surgery). Then I will weigh myself just before I leave for my appointment fully clothed shoes and all writing that down. Then, of course, is the weigh-in at the surgeon's office also fully clothed. I kept that record since I first started just to get some kind of a good idea of just how much my scale and the surgeon's scale is different. But yeah, my weight at home nude is what I consider my official weight since I do that way more often.

[suesmithwhippet 4]

Every scale is different. I like the "use the surgeons office for loss and your home one for consistency".

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[2twinkle 86]

I say, "Pick one scale and weigh yourself once a week."

My scale is at the gym so I don't use it nakid, although I could.

The best information comes from my measuring tape,

cause it doesn't care if its fat or muscle being considered.