I bought a new scale. This one is a Taylor instead of the stupid Healthometer that I was fighting with previoulsy. My new scale supposedly measures body fat percentage and water in your body too.
Last week my crappy scale read 166.2 on Saturday and 167.6 on Sunday if I remember correctly. And my body fat percentage was 37.9% I think.
This week, my new scale reads 166.2 and 39.3% body fat with 44.3% water.
Because as I'm sure you can imagine, I wasn't thrilled with what I saw, I also elected to step on my old crappy scale. Guess what it said? 156.6. WTF!!! So...the saga continues.
What am I to do? Go with the new scale even if it means remaining at the same weight I was last week even though I know that can't be right? Or perhaps I should go with the old scale because it's being nicer to me after being severely threatened by permanent replacement? Or, what about playing them against each other for a while to see if eventually they'll equal out? Or should I destroy the old scrapper and return the new lying machine and just use the professional scale at the gym?
Whatever! It's just a scale. I'd really just like to see some kind of consistency with the damn thing eventually. But in the meantime, I'm using how I feel, how my clothes fit, my energy level, and calorie counting to determine how successful I am. Eventually the scale won't have the opportunity to lie to me.
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5 comments:
Can you calibrate the new scale down to match the old scale's numbers?
Salina, I would stick with the new scale. All that matters is monitoring your weight from week to week. So what if you have one week that doesn't reflect a loss? There's all sorts of reasons that might happen in life, including getting a new scale.
Holy jupiter beans! Seriously it's such a drama. And I mean for you, messing with your mind. I am so glad to see you be in control mentally and know that you are doing all the right things. After all these weeks I would believe the old scale and maybe the new one does need calibrating. How about at the end of work out do some measuring at the club. Then go home and calibrate the new based on that and see which one is correct.
I have had two Taylor scales that I paid $50 for. The body fat percentage consistently overestimates by as much 4%, even with the settings set for an "athletic" woman. The old one that finally broke overestimated body fat, as well. Bear in mind that I KNOW the scale overestimates by that much because I've had hydrostatic fat testing done, which is the gold standard for body fat tests.
Even with using the scale on a floor that is level as verified by a carpenter's level, the scale has a huge problem getting a weight for me most mornings. Seriously, the numbers jump all over the place before it settles on one, sometimes taking as much as 30 seconds.
People talking about "calibrating" the scales, I've never discovered how to do that. Generally, with a digital-display scale, it involves taking the battery out for like 5-15 seconds, putting the scale on a level floor, and then putting the battery back in.
I seriously wonder if the digital scales don't have more problems with consistency because the technology is different from the old dial display spring mechanisms. I've been sorely tempted to buy an old style scale to see if I fare any better.
I looked at an analog scale and almost bought it but I was wooed by the sexy digital one. Damn technology. I might just take it back and get the analog anyway.
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