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7 months ago I had covid. I lost half a stone. Before covid I weighed 10 stone . I went down to 9 stone 7. Movng forward I decided to cut out eating sugar for 4 weeks and when I weighed myself at the end of the period, I had dropped some weighted and weighed in at 9 stone 4. All good or so I thought.

I had a text from my GP surgery to have my blood pressure done. Whilst I was there, the nurse said would you like me to check your height and weight and I said yes please. She checked my height and I was 5 foot 6 and asked me to get on the scales. She said the weight was in kg which I could not understand so she converted it to stones and told me I was 10 stone 2. I said that is impossible because I weighed myself this morning first thing with no clothes and no food and I weighed 9 stone 3 and I have definately lost weight since I had coved etc and my arms and face definately look thinner and my clothes are lose. She said oh these are not digital scales so she said come with me and we went to another room and I got on the digital scales and it was a difference of 2 pounds so she said I was 1 was 10 stone.

I said no I weighed myself this morning and I was half a stone lighter. She said how old are your scales and I said about 7 years old so she said they are probably too old to be accurate so buy some new scales.

Sorry but pre covid I was 10 stone and I have most definately dropped weight so I think her scales are not accurate. I weigh myself on a hard surface the same surface as the nurse weighed me in the surgery.

After I left I went to Argos and bought some new scales. They cost me £12 which I was reluctant to pay because I did not see how my ones could be so inaccurate. I will weigh myself in the morning as I did this morning, first thing, no clothes no food and with an empty bladder and if I reach the same weight as I did today then I wm taking the new scales back to Argos and getting a refund because that will prove that I do not need to buy new scales and that there is nothing wrong with the ones I have been using up to now.

ok I was wearing clothes at the surgery and had some breakfast but the nurse said it should not be too much different because I was wearing a very thin dress but it was difference of 71b

Any advce. There is NO WAY I am 10 stone

Presumably the scales were wrong before you lost weight and they're still wrong now? You've lost the same or a similar amount of weight but from a different starting point.

I was going to say exactly this!

This!!!

Are you accepting this now OP?

just used the brand new scales and it said i am 10 stone. That is proof that my original scales were wrong.

However nobody has mentioned when I said the boots machine said i was 5 foot 4 because both the doctor two days ago and a previous medic said I was 5 foot 6

This also means that when I was weighing myself before I had covid on my old home scales, I was showing as 10 stone and then when I recovered from covid I was 9 stone 7. If as I have now discovered the scales were wrong then I was not 10 stone before I caught covid, I was more like 10 stone 6 or something because if I lost 71b and then a bit more when I stopped eating sugar for the whole of April then that would make it correct that I am 10 stone now

Blimey 😲

So if I shed another half stone that will make me 9 stone 7 which is what I thought I was whenI lost the half stone during covid. It all makes sense now

OP, all measurements have a margin of error - less so regularly calibrated ones such as for medical use. I mean, even growth scans for babies are known for being way out, as the medical professionals always emphasise, and these are very important measurements by contrast to us weighing ourselves at home and being annoyed we’re a few pounds heavier than we thought. We’ve all been there. You said yourself that you Googled the Boots ones and it said they are often wrong. Maybe they’re wrong about your height too. Maybe the doctor’s ones were. I don’t actually know my exact height as I’ve been told a few over the years. You’re a healthy weight for either of those heights.

obviously I have eaten today so I will be very curious what the new scales when I try to see what I weigh first thing tomorrrow morning which is when you are at your lightest and true weight

We are meant to have food in us undigested and water of course. Our true weight is an average of what we are at several points throughout the day, not when our stomach is emptiest and grumbling. But I am not suggesting you weigh even more than you already do!

However nobody has mentioned when I said the boots machine said i was 5 foot 4 because both the doctor two days ago and a previous medic said I was 5 foot 6

It's because nobody thinks it's worthy of commenting on. It's just a number. You are the height that you are, just like you weigh whatever you weigh. Someone could say you are 15 stone, someone could say you are 8 stone. It doesn't change the fact of your actual weight. As long as your clothes still fit you it's all good.

I have got rid of the new scales now. They were very heavy and made of glass. I only got them because thats all the shop had to offer. I have ordered some non glass ones from Amazon. I do not understand why bathroom scales need to be made of glass anyway. They are horrible