correct weight

As much as I love an indignant post in the afternoon. Throw the scales out OP and use a tape measure. Scales are a stupid idea and can easily get obsessed by them.

Why are you not weighing yourself now? Why do you want to wait till the morning? Is it so you can see a lower number?

do you have a history of eating disorders?

Oh OP. You sounds like my mum. Obsessed with her weight, always talking about how she has gained or lost and her whole day ruined if the scale says something different than yesterday 😞

Is that the same 'they' that tell you to weigh yourself once a week, never more?

If they did know anything about weighing anything, they'd know that is rubbish for a start.

So glad I'm not the only one 😂

Op started a thread about her scales in March! 😂

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Flute56 · 25/03/2023 10:26
They say weigh yourself on a hard floor not carpet first thing in the morning. The issue I have is differet areas of my kitchen floor give me diifferent results. By th door I am one weight By th window I am another and by the washing maching another. Wich one i the most accurate so I know which spot to use each time

you fruitcake op!

This is the reason I always weigh myself first thing in the morning, butt naked, after having been to the loo 🤣😂😆

OP Why can't you accept your scales may not be accurate?

This reminds me of the Michael McIntyre sketch about his wife being happy if she’s a size 8 in one shop but then the day is ruined if she’s a size 12 in the next shop.

Your body hasn’t changed from when you weighed yourself in the bathroom to when you were weighed at the doctors. The numbers are irrelevant.

I bet the GP is going to have a giggle with her partner tonight about this

This reminds me of when I nearly made a mortifying scale-based error.

There was a time when I went to the gym three times a week, and didn't eat much in the evenings I didn't exercise. I weighed myself at the gym, and was about 10.5 stone.

I then left my job, met current DP, stopped going to the gym and started going out on the piss with DP, and having a great time. Had no scales at home.

Bought some scales, got on them and they said I was 11.5 stone. WHAT NONSENSE, I thought, and packed them back up to return them to the shop and be outraged. Just before I stormed up to the counter at Boots, thought I'd check how 'inaccurate' they were by getting on their big in-store scales. Oddly, they too said I was 11.5 stone. This would also explain why all my clothes were too small.

Denial was strong.

I never realised that people cared so much.

I understand looking in the mirror and thinking 'I look fat, so want to lose weight' or being concerned about being overweight due for health reasons, but I didn't realise that people fixated on the number, for numbers sake.

OP you haven't said anything about whether you are happy about your appearance, or concerned about your health, quite the opposite, you say you know you look slimmer, and you sound healthy.

So why the obsession with your weight being below a certain number? Is this some weird 'women tend to weigh 8 or 9 stone' notion, that's not true anyway? Just look around you. You can tell by looking at people that a good amount of them weigh over 10 stone.

I think it's because the OP is absolutely FEWMIN' 😂

Just face it, you’re 10 stone. Deal with it.

Just here for the update...

Me too! 😂

I was telling everyone oh I am now 9 stone 4 WHY??? I can guarantee that these people you tell couldn't care less!

You do realise that medical equipment needs to be calibrated often, to ensure it is accurate?

I've never understood this either.

No-one's going to pass me on my way to work in the morning and think, "Oh look, Mrs Doyle looks about 2lbs lighter. She must've just had a shit"

Why does it matter?

Don’t see the point in weighing yourself in the morning just weigh now. Either you’ll be under 10 stone or you won’t be 🤷🏼‍♀️

Although, OP, weren't you already aware your scales gave a wide range of weight readings?

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/weight_loss_chat/4770838-weighing-yoursel

Flute56 · 25/03/2023 17:07
There is a differennce of about 5 or 6 pounds

You'd better go and tell everyone you have unwittingly misled them, they will be absolutely fascinated.

Tbh it's more likely that 7 year old scales are wrong than it is that two sets of scales at a doctor's surgery are but you've got the new scales now so you can see in the morning.
Maybe do one wearing what you were wearing today just to see.

It's not a massive deal really though. It's a few pounds. Don't upset yourself about it

Chill out OP. Jeez!

It is entirely possible to weigh heavier with clothes on, empty bladder and empty stomach with your last meal prior to breakfast being around 12 hours or more.

After drinks also.

If you drink a litre of water, you will be the equivalent of a litre heavier on the scales, but it doesn't mean you have put weight on.

If your scales are wrong then you wouldn’t have been 10 stone before you were ill but more like 10.7. Surely that’s obvious?