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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 154672" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>Just a comment about weight apparently not changing - check your bathroom scales. I've finally worked out not to necessarily believe the digital scales, because they can be upset by all sorts of variables including how you step on them. The older scales which read on a dial are more accurate. Double-check the zero to make sure.</p><p></p><p>Another trick which husband set up - find some weights. In our case because we're metric, we filled a large plastic bottle with exactly 2 litres of water (measured with a jug). By definition, 2 litres weighs exactly 2 Kilograms. So we weigh ourselves just as we are, and then immediately, this time holding the bottle of water. It should show us as 2 Kg heavier, but it doesn't (with our scales). Try measuring out 30.7 fluid ounces of water. That weighs 2 pounds. Or double it and measure out 61.4 fluid ounces, for a 4 pound weight. Then try weighing yourself, with and without the water bottle. If the weight with the bottle is 4 pounds heavier than the weight without the bottle, then your scales are behaving themselves.</p><p></p><p>So I use my scales as an estimate only, and if it shows no change or a gain, I don't let it upset me.</p><p></p><p>Another trick - weigh yourself three times. Average out the readings.</p><p></p><p>But best of all - find someone with a dial you can read, instead of a digital output. Try to weigh yourself at the same time each day, wearing the same things (or close enough). I weigh myself in the mornings wearing just underwear, for the most repeatable readings.</p><p></p><p>And don't get disheartened.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 154672, member: 1991"] Just a comment about weight apparently not changing - check your bathroom scales. I've finally worked out not to necessarily believe the digital scales, because they can be upset by all sorts of variables including how you step on them. The older scales which read on a dial are more accurate. Double-check the zero to make sure. Another trick which husband set up - find some weights. In our case because we're metric, we filled a large plastic bottle with exactly 2 litres of water (measured with a jug). By definition, 2 litres weighs exactly 2 Kilograms. So we weigh ourselves just as we are, and then immediately, this time holding the bottle of water. It should show us as 2 Kg heavier, but it doesn't (with our scales). Try measuring out 30.7 fluid ounces of water. That weighs 2 pounds. Or double it and measure out 61.4 fluid ounces, for a 4 pound weight. Then try weighing yourself, with and without the water bottle. If the weight with the bottle is 4 pounds heavier than the weight without the bottle, then your scales are behaving themselves. So I use my scales as an estimate only, and if it shows no change or a gain, I don't let it upset me. Another trick - weigh yourself three times. Average out the readings. But best of all - find someone with a dial you can read, instead of a digital output. Try to weigh yourself at the same time each day, wearing the same things (or close enough). I weigh myself in the mornings wearing just underwear, for the most repeatable readings. And don't get disheartened. Marg [/QUOTE]
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