I really like this forum. I visit read and post here whenever I can. I've enjoyed reading about what others do to reach goals and have learned a few things along the way.
In this section, a lot of focus is placed upon what we weigh. A lot of people include their body weight as a necessary statistic in their OP. As I work on myself (trying to be more healthy, gain stamina, lose weight, etc...) it occurred to me that I am using a 15+ year old plain jane bathroom scale. I'm guessing the overall accuracy isn't quite as important as it providing a week to week comparison as to how I'm doing (IOW: the numbers don't matter as much as the comparison). When a co-worker asked what my target weight is, I honestly replied that I don't know, I am just trying to be happy with the way I look naked in the mirror.
So, I'd like to ask what others here use to track their weight? Is a typical old spring type bathroom scale sufficient? I've seen digital scales for as cheap as $20, are they any more accurate? Perhaps more importantly, are the digital scales more consistent than spring scales? I remember when the tri-beam scale was king. I'm assuming that there is a reason that my doctors office still has one. I figure that if I weigh myself at the doctors and then come home and weigh myself, I should have a good idea how close my scale is.
I do know that I have a hard time reading exactly what my weight is on my current scale. It has a full circle and the needle moves to the number (as opposed to where the numbers move to the needle). Of course, even when I zero it out, a couple of bounces and it usually is off by a pound or more again.
I'm considering buying this (http://www.amazon.com/Precision-Digi...V2&cdSort=best) scale from Amazon, and I figured I'd ask here first. Frankly, it isn't a big investment, but I figured I'd ask first.
So, please feel free to post about what you use, how important you feel your weight is, whether or not you feel the mirror is a better tool than the scale, enlighten me about how body mass index is far superior than a scale, etc... Please feel free to post something funny!
EDIT: Ughh... During my research into scales, I saw a person talking about being sure that a scale is placed on a hard floor. Well, the feet on my scale are all off, so I usually place it on the bathroom mat. Today, I weighed myself as I usually do and then moved the scale to the tile portion of the floor. Boom! I gained 2 pounds.... Ughh... So, I tried it again, still 2 pounds heavier. I moved the scale back to the mat and I tried again. Sure enough I got 2 pounds lighter. I guess it takes about 2 pounds of weight to fully compress that bathroom mat. Great, I just started researching scales and I've already gained 2 pounds! I know it doesn't matter, because I've always put the scale on the mat, so my weight loss is just as many pounds. But, it's just that I'm heavier than I thought right off the bat. Let's see what happens when I buy a new scale.
In this section, a lot of focus is placed upon what we weigh. A lot of people include their body weight as a necessary statistic in their OP. As I work on myself (trying to be more healthy, gain stamina, lose weight, etc...) it occurred to me that I am using a 15+ year old plain jane bathroom scale. I'm guessing the overall accuracy isn't quite as important as it providing a week to week comparison as to how I'm doing (IOW: the numbers don't matter as much as the comparison). When a co-worker asked what my target weight is, I honestly replied that I don't know, I am just trying to be happy with the way I look naked in the mirror.
So, I'd like to ask what others here use to track their weight? Is a typical old spring type bathroom scale sufficient? I've seen digital scales for as cheap as $20, are they any more accurate? Perhaps more importantly, are the digital scales more consistent than spring scales? I remember when the tri-beam scale was king. I'm assuming that there is a reason that my doctors office still has one. I figure that if I weigh myself at the doctors and then come home and weigh myself, I should have a good idea how close my scale is.
I do know that I have a hard time reading exactly what my weight is on my current scale. It has a full circle and the needle moves to the number (as opposed to where the numbers move to the needle). Of course, even when I zero it out, a couple of bounces and it usually is off by a pound or more again.
I'm considering buying this (http://www.amazon.com/Precision-Digi...V2&cdSort=best) scale from Amazon, and I figured I'd ask here first. Frankly, it isn't a big investment, but I figured I'd ask first.
So, please feel free to post about what you use, how important you feel your weight is, whether or not you feel the mirror is a better tool than the scale, enlighten me about how body mass index is far superior than a scale, etc... Please feel free to post something funny!
EDIT: Ughh... During my research into scales, I saw a person talking about being sure that a scale is placed on a hard floor. Well, the feet on my scale are all off, so I usually place it on the bathroom mat. Today, I weighed myself as I usually do and then moved the scale to the tile portion of the floor. Boom! I gained 2 pounds.... Ughh... So, I tried it again, still 2 pounds heavier. I moved the scale back to the mat and I tried again. Sure enough I got 2 pounds lighter. I guess it takes about 2 pounds of weight to fully compress that bathroom mat. Great, I just started researching scales and I've already gained 2 pounds! I know it doesn't matter, because I've always put the scale on the mat, so my weight loss is just as many pounds. But, it's just that I'm heavier than I thought right off the bat. Let's see what happens when I buy a new scale.
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