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I need a bathroom scale I can trust

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Yea, that's probably about right, but that gets me into the angry days. When you KNOW it should be decent out, but it's still 80 fucking degrees. That's almost worse than the 90°+ days of July. Almost, but not quite. By 13-14 weeks, it should be consistently nice out. Sucks when you get old, and time flies already, but all you want is for it to go faster to get through a bunch of bullshit weather.
 
Ha, I'm in SC so 3 more but I've grown to love it if I'm in that mode....biking, yard work. 100 or less. 95 here today, sweated my ass off on the bike. Dressed for work, 70 or less, please.
 
lxskllr said:
I've been using my scale in the bathroom lately since my doctor; the higi health station at the grocery store is STILL closed. I have no idea what I weigh. I can shift my weight around on the scale, and it changes 5-10 pounds. I also have a hard time seeing that far(really need to get new glasses). I appear to be 207-212#, but who knows?!
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I was having this problem (I appear to be X#, but who knows?!), so shopped.
Can you see an optometrist? With an Rx you can order glasses online cheap. Don't get crap frames, though. Even cheap frames can be robust and look good. My distance frames have garnered me dozens and dozens of compliments, from Zenni:

Frame #270524 $15.95 green/purple/black/translucent/blue/orange (a best seller)

Totally fine frame, plastic. I have lots of that frame and none have failed but the color that gets the compliments are the blue color. Doesn't look blue to me, more like grey, I am color blind, though.

Buy a digital scale. Plenty of ideas here. The Etekcity EB9380H is $20 or so, and I'm pretty confident it gets my weight within a pound every time.
lxskllr said:
Yea, that's probably about right, but that gets me into the angry days. When you KNOW it should be decent out, but it's still 80 fucking degrees. That's almost worse than the 90°+ days of July. Almost, but not quite. By 13-14 weeks, it should be consistently nice out. Sucks when you get old, and time flies already, but all you want is for it to go faster to get through a bunch of bullshit weather.
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Attitude adjustment?
 
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lxskllr said:
Moving would be better. Heat encourages slow thinking, and sloth. It's no accident the world's been driven by northerners, or to be more accurate, anti equatorians.
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Yes! On all counts. My weather here's been pretty damn great most of the time. I sure can't complain these days. It's expensive here but I'm ssssssooooooooooooooooooo used to that, I also have more money now. And I can get a lot out of a buck.

Global warming is making the anti equatorian effect more pronounced. Migrations are in the offing, just part of the burgeoning crisis.
 
JEDI said:
how much is a used scale that's usually in doctor's offices?
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I saw an old balance beam scale (I don't see them in doctor's offices anymore, they all use digital now) at the thrift store recently for like $20-30. I can't see any reason to need that level of precision for my day-to-day weight tracking, plus my current scale automatically logs the data to my phone (and China probably knows how much I weigh too, good luck making use of that data I suppose?)
 
lxskllr said:
I've been using my scale in the bathroom lately since my doctor; the higi health station at the grocery store is STILL closed. I have no idea what I weigh. I can shift my weight around on the scale, and it changes 5-10 pounds. I also have a hard time seeing that far(really need to get new glasses). I appear to be 207-212#, but who knows?!
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Are you asking or stating why shifting yourself on a scale changes the weight it outputs? ....
 
RPD said:
Are you asking or stating why shifting yourself on a scale changes the weight it outputs? ....
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I'm stating. Depending on where you stand on the scale, it displays a different weight, and I don't mean standing in some retarded position. Weight shifted a little forward displays differently than weight shifted back, but all within the platform, with an acceptable amount of whitespace around my feet.
 
lxskllr said:
I'm stating. Depending on where you stand on the scale, it displays a different weight, and I don't mean standing in some retarded position. Weight shifted a little forward displays differently than weight shifted back, but all within the platform, with an acceptable amount of whitespace around my feet.
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So if you know this, you know the limits of the scale and obviously it has a smaller than what appears as the measuring part of the scale.
 
lxskllr said:
I've been using my scale in the bathroom lately since my doctor; the higi health station at the grocery store is STILL closed. I have no idea what I weigh. I can shift my weight around on the scale, and it changes 5-10 pounds. I also have a hard time seeing that far(really need to get new glasses). I appear to be 207-212#, but who knows?!
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That's why people put on weight in middle-age. Your eyes deteriorate, so you can't read the calorie and fat information on the food packaging ("hmmm, sausages...calories and fat per 100g...blurry smudge...indecipherable microscopic print...blurry squiggles...ah, I'm sure it's fine, into the basket they go"), nor can you read the readout on the bathroom scales.
 
I trust my cheapie scale well enough. It seems to guess who I am (ball park) and give its idea of what I weigh, regardless of what it just read, but I'm not too bugged by that. I can always remove a battery and replace it to get a fresh idea, but I seldom do that. It's Wirecutter recommended: Etekcity EB9380H $19.99 - $3 coupon at the time off Amazon.
 
Digital scale with hand grips to measure fat and muscle percentages. They used to be on the pricey side but on Amazon they're way less than 50 bucks. And they seem to have ditched the grips
 
As a free person, one can create their own scale. I weigh exactly one ironwang and not a talon more.

That the rest of the world is wasting away is not my concern.
 
lxskllr said:
I have no idea what's going on here. By any chance, do you build scales? :^D
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For most scales, the measuring part you stand on is some square or rectangular shape. To get the most accurate measurement the thing you want to measure needs to be within this area or volume if you go up in the vertical axis. Basically the less balanced you area on this measuring surface, the less accurate it will be.
 
echo4747 said:
I have the Etekcity EB9380H ... So far I am pleased with it ( Ive only had it for ~2-1/2 months) Seems to give fairly consistant readings .. nothing out of the ordinary. Nice large digital readout... which is nice
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I am the OP. I wound up ordering this Etekcity EB9380H scale. Been using it ever since, but it just broke. The whole glass plate just shattered (see below). It acts like safety glass, so AFAIK it didn't shed little pieces of glass but when I stand on it it's like standing on a sponge, not a solid glass surface, if you can imagine that.

So, I'm back in the market for a digital scale. Oddly, Etekcity has a newer model of this same EB9380H scale, same model number, that supports Bluetooth connection to smartphones. Etekcity and other manufacturers of digital bathroom scales are doing that a lot now, multiple metrics measured and displayed either on your phone or phone/scale-itself. Just about no useful Youtube videos helpful here all things considered, I rummaged that scene the last hour or two.

What's really disconcerting is Amazon reviews. Amazon is obviously the place where you are going to see (AFAIK) the most customer reviews of these things. 99% of Amazon reviewers don't specify what model scale they are reviewing. Amazon is famous for mixing up reviews.

The EFS-551 Etekcity has some nice features including 0.1lb increment and a minimum weight of 100g (less than 24lb is 0.2lb increment accuracy, however). But one reviewer said it takes a long time to calibrate, enough to be "annoying." That would bother me. The EFS24, that reviewer said, is a lot faster, but is only 0.2lb increment. I may go with that. Price is nearly the same. Both support Bluetooth and display multiple parameters such as body fat %, BMI, % skeletal weight (although it's said to be way off), effective age, fat free body weight, body water %, etc.

The usefulness and accuracy of the multiple parameters supported is questionable (some, anyway) for these Bluetooth bathroom scales. Evidently they are pretty accurate in terms of just weight measurement.

FYI, don't stomp on one of these. I guess that's what broke mine. Just tapping it with my toe didn't always trigger it to turn on. The scale is said to work for up to 400lb user. I weigh less than 170lb.

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