Could you gain 50lbs without realising?

[ordinaryseven]

The last time I weighed myself about 7 years ago, I was 130lbs. Recently weighed myself again and it read 180lbs. I don't feel like my weight has changed much at all in the past 7 years, and I wear some of the same clothes I did back then (as in the exact same pair of jeans or same t-shirt, not just same size).

Has anyone else has had their weight change so much without realising or is it more likely that that one of the scales was wrong?

I don't have my own scales so I can't weigh myself again any time soon, but I'm thinking one of those weights was wrong

Probably. Where were the scales & were they digital or not? The scales in a surgery are calibrated annually, a friends scales won’t be. Scales don’t weigh as accurately on a carpeted floor compared to solid floor. Pretty sure you would notice that amount of weight!

Muscle mass. Have you been working out? Muscle is heavy but doesn’t mean your fat

If you put on 50 lbs you would be waddling around - you really would notice - buy some scales.

No way, I would notice!

How tall are you? 130lb at many heights would be slim. 180lb at many heights wouldn't be. Were you always slim, or a bit curvier? If the latter and your height isn't v small then I'd assume perhaps the scales were faulty 7 years ago.

I went from 11 stone prior to giving birth to dc2, to around 14 stone a couple years later, and wasn't expecting it to be that much of an increase - stretchy fabrics and change of clothes to maternity ones again meant I was still wearing clothes from before. I thought I'd only gained about a stone so it was a shock - sadly multiple scales agreed it was so and after injury I've only gained more since then.

No. That's about 1/3 of my body weight. Your scales just be wrong if you haven't changed by several clothes sizes.

@ordinaryseven No I look much fatter objectively, but it doesn't stand out to me day to day looking in the mirror. Only if I look at old photos and compare.