correct weight

I went through the monopause 12 years ago. I was telling everyone oh I am now 9 stone 4

I am sure everyone was positively riveted

Treat yourself to another set of scales

Pop boots and use their scales

either way it’s so daft that you argued the toss with the GP standing in front of a likely far superior scale to your scale

The difference between 9st 3lb and 10 stone is 11lbs, not 7.

There is NO WAY I am 10 stone

yeah OP, there REALLY is!! 😂

Scales are weird things. The ones in my grandma's house always made me a stone lighter than the ones in my house.

So you weighed yourself first thing in the morning, no clothes, no food, empty bladder.

Then you went to the dr and got weighed, with clothes and after you had eaten, a couple of hours later in the morning.

For me, that can add 4-6lbs (and I'm a normal weight).

It would only need your scales to be out by a couple of lbs for this to completely make sense. It's normal for scales to be out by a tiny amount like that.

If your scales are 7 years old they are more likely to be inaccurate than the ones at the Dr's which will be regularly checked and recalibrated.

If they are not concerned about your weight then it's really not that big a deal. You sound like you are obsessing over this. If you feel and look healthy then all is good.

Also, you would have to weigh yourself at 10am, after breakfast, with clothes, for it to be comparable to your weight at the doctor's. There is no point in weighing yourself tomorrow with no clothes and before food, that's not what you are comparing to.

We got new scales. I weighed exactly two pounds more on the new ones. Weigh on the old. Walk over to new. Up two pounds in less than ten seconds. Both sit on a whole tile each in the same bathroom.

OP, I hear you. I'd be exactly the same. But I think a degree of variation in scales is pretty normal.

There were some very kind scales in my old workplace, which lured me into a flattering perception of what I weighed. I was brought back down to earth when I got some electronic ones for home. 😭

Very easy to add half a stone to the weight of a person just by getting dressed and having breakfast and a drink.

STOP IT!! 🤣🤣🤣

Trust me, that would be entirely within expected parameters. Especially when you factor in a small amount of variance between two different pairs of scales.

And I agree that you do sound obsessed.

Emptying your bladder and removing your clothes to weigh yourself?

Have a word with yourself about that.

what kind of shoes/ drinks/ meals weigh 2lb

Er, all of them. Have you never weighed anything?

A pint of water weighs over a pound
Shoes will easily weigh 1 to 2 pounds
A ready meal or tin of soup, so small meals, weigh just less than a pound each
A pair of jeans will weigh a pound or two

Very easy to add half a stone to the weight of a person just by getting dressed and having breakfast and a drink.

I don't see the issue here. If you're convinced you weigh 9 stone 3 then that should be good enough.

It's not like the Dr was telling you that you need to lose weight.

Weighing in your birthday suit before any water or food by any chance, and after a big wee (even a number 2, dare I say)? Nope? Just me then… Admittedly I haven’t read the thread as I really wouldn’t worry about this. Either this or you have a friendly set of scales or friendly tiles. 😁

I wouldn’t worry about that margin of error/margin for you to gain water weight as the day goes on etc.

Why would you go round telling everyone your weight? That's a really weird and annoying thing to do.

If I were you I would throw your scales away, don't replace them, and stop thinking, talking and generally obsessing about your weight.

what kind of shoes/ drinks/ meals weigh 2lb?

OP you are on a slippery slope to being obsessed if not there already
Your body will change and your weight fluctuate as is normal in life
Love the skin you are in

10 stone at 5”6 is a healthy bmi so it shouldn’t matter. Just ignore the doctors scale. They got the data needed.

Next time use the scales at somewhere like Boots for an accurate reading.

I've also noticed I'm heavier if I weigh myself after my morning coffee (before even eating anything)

Well quite, you've got the weight of you, and that of a mug of coffee in your stomach, that wasn't there when you weighed yourself the first time. Just because you weigh half a pound more, doesn't mean you've somehow got half a pound more body fat, which is what we should be concerned about when we weigh ourselves, because of the health detriment of carrying too much body fat.

I'm professionally interested in metrology (the science of measuring things, not the weather) and if you approach getting on scales as a scientific exercise, you see 10 stone, and it tells you not that a person weighs 10 stone, but at best, that person weighs somewhere between 9.5 and 10.5 stone.

Because of all the variables, a single measurement doesn't tell you anything more than that, even before you get to variation between scales, that's just due to variation in hydration, contents of digestive system etc.

What @Oysterbabe & @JuneShitfield said.... 2 drinks 2 lbs, 2 shoes 2lbs, 2 meals 2lb.

Bit of leeway for flooring & clothes and there's your difference. It's not like the number at the surgery is way out of the healthy weight range for your height is it?

You sound a right PITA going round telling everyone what you weight tho!

Get over your inner Bridget Jones & if you're exercising, lifting some weight (bodyweight even) regularly - as you're post-menopause, and feeling good in your clothes, what does it matter what the number is?

They're both just a number, that are quite meaningless on their own. What is your apparent aversion to weighing 10 stone? It's within the healthy BMI range, for what it's worth, so your doctor won't be suggesting that you lose weight.

Your blood pressure is 'that of a 20 YO' which suggests that you are fit and active.

I bet if you looked at a group of post menopausal women who were 5'6 tall, you'd be one of the slimmer, healthier ones, by far.

I'm only slightly taller than you and weigh 13 stone. Even if I was 'lean' I probably couldn't get lower than 11 stone as I have wide hips and long muscular legs, but I could definitely do with losing around 20 pounds of fat. Does that make you feel any better about weighing as much as '10 stone' as if it's some great weight?

I usually weigh myself naked first thing in the morning. If I weigh myself (again naked) at bedtime after a day's food and drink I can be half a stone more! I've also noticed I'm heavier if I weigh myself after my morning coffee (before even eating anything).
I can imagine if you'd had some food and drink and were dressed at the doctors you could be well over half a stone more. Plus using different scales.

Wooptie fucking ping.

All this shows is that you can’t compare your scales with the ones at the Dr. That’s all. So just look at the difference with individual scales as a benchmark. Whatever your scales read now, if they later read a half stone heavier then you have gained half a stone, or if they read half a stone lighted me then you have lost. But don’t compare yours to the Drs, they are clearly not that accurate.

Why are you going around telling everyone how much you weigh?

You sound very obsessed with weight, it’s not a good thing.