Digital home scale vs. analog scale at my gym

[bocajoes]

I weighed in this morning at home; my home digital scale showed me at 288, which is 4 lbs. heavier than I weighed just two days ago!

I went to my gym after the weigh in, and I stepped on their analog scale. WITH shoes, sweat pants, t-shirt, and iPod in pocket, it weighed me at 284! My real weight is probably closer to 282-283 lbs.

Frustrating...

[stephbob]

Re: Digital home scale vs. analog scale at my gym

It is frustrating, but different scales, as well as weighing at different times of the day, will give you different results. Don't fret, just pick one scale, and go by that each week. Don't keep weighing yourself on various scales because you will continue to get different readings and it will cause you unnecessary frustration

[Elizellen]

Re: Digital home scale vs. analog scale at my gym

Steph is right, choose whichever scales is the most convenient to use and stick to it for your progression weights.

[nat11]

Re: Digital home scale vs. analog scale at my gym

Also take body measurements.

[Peytonn]

Re: Digital home scale vs. analog scale at my gym

yeah.. what's important is not how much it SAYS you weigh.. but how much of a difference there is from last week.. to this week..

(oh.. and I just bought a new digital for home... because my old dial scale had gotten too annoying to read when I didn't have contacts in)

so THAT's the one I'm going with now

[bocajoes]

Re: Digital home scale vs. analog scale at my gym

Thanks for the advice! At the gym this morning, I placed a 30 lb. dumbell on the scale. Guess what? It weighed 30 pounds. So I know that scale is accurate. I then weighed myself and the scale weighed me at 281 lbs. That is two to three pounds lighter than I weighed on the same scale yesterday. Contrast that to my home digital scale, which weighed me at 288 lbs. this morning. I am inclined to think that the analog gym scale is the one I should use as my guide, based on the dumbell test. My home scale might need a new battery.

[Suzanne_H]

Re: Digital home scale vs. analog scale at my gym

I find that different scales give different readings. Even the tilt of the scale can vary... like if I weigh in the kitchen then take the same scale to the bathroom get two different readings. Pfffffffffft

To keep things on the level I weigh on one scale, one location, one time of day... first thing in the morning after I use the toilet, clean out the ears and belly button and just before stepping in the shower... LOL