OK..this digital scale sucks or I suck!

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Registered: 08-27-2004
OK..this digital scale sucks or I suck!
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Tue, 04-26-2005 - 8:09pm
Maybe this is just a cheap scale! I bought it for 15.00 on sale at Target. I just stepped off and on 3 times in a row and each time it gave me a different weight with a difference of 3 POUNDS! Then I tried it again another 3 times and it gave me the same weight but then I must have gained 1.5 pounds since this morning! It is really confusing me now..I don't know how much I weigh!
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Registered: 04-01-2004
Tue, 04-26-2005 - 9:43pm

Yoyo,


I don't know about your scale.

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Registered: 08-27-2004
Tue, 04-26-2005 - 10:19pm
Oh..I know...I only weigh myself in the morn like you said..I was just checking the darn thing to see if it really was inaccurate. Obviously it is if I weigh myself and then weigh myself again immediately and get a totally different weight. I had my son do it too and it did the same for him. Im just going to take it back..But thanks...hehe..I was just trying to have faith it the darn thing...'cause I hate doing returns...lol
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Registered: 09-14-2004
Wed, 04-27-2005 - 9:41am
There is definitely a problem with your scale. I have a Tanita body fat scale that I bought at Bed Bath and Beyond. It wasn't too expensive. It is very accurate.
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Registered: 04-20-2004
Wed, 04-27-2005 - 10:56am
Yoyo,
I don't know if there's any truth to this or not, but I've always been told that you're not suppose to weigh something right after the other. You're supposed to give it a little bit of a break. Try waiting five minutes before you weigh yourself again and see what result you get then. But then again, I might have just been told that by people who just had very cheap scales:) Just a thought, I really don't know.