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How many of us, have stepped on the scale, been unhappy, and moved the scale around, stepped on it differently to try to get a number we liked better. Raise your hands.
Everyone who didn't raise your hand please report for 1 hour of after school detention for lying.
Modern digital scales typically claim an implied accuracy of 0.2 pounds. If it says 194.2 you think it must mean bigger than 194.1 and smaller than 194.3.
Doesn't seem to work like that.
Some scales cheat: They are sloppily made and without further processing, if you weight yourself 6 times you'd 6 several different answers.
So internally the scale looks at the number, and if it's close to a recent number, it will use that recent number instead.
This is very frustrating for us dieters. I'd much rather lose my 0.2 pounds each day and see some progress instead of waiting on a mini-plateau for a week.
### Test your scale
Take your food scale and a stack of glasses into the bathroom.
Assuming your scale has a interval of 0.2 pounds, make up a set of weights that are multiples of that. This is easy to do by adding water to a glass while it's on the scale. (Use another glass to pour) You want a .2, .4, .6, .8, and 1 pound weights. (1 pound will be about 2 cups if the cup is zero weight. May be a tough fit.)
If you want a heavier weight, put a bottle of something in a sock, and trim it to an interval by adding coins.
Stand on the scale. Weigh. Get off and write it down.
Pick up the .2 lb glass. and repeat. Get off and write it down.
Repeat up to a pound, or whatever the top end of your weight set is.
Do the test again later starting at the top end and going down.
If you got a set of weighings that changed each time (or at least most of the time) then try to figure out the exact model of your scale, and post it here, along with any details you remember as to how long ago, and where you bought it.
Since most scales have this inherent error, there is no need to post models that failed the test.
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My scale shows the weighing numbers it's considering. They blink by at about 2 per second. I'm beginning to think that the last one before the final number is the actual reading before it figures out which lie to tell.
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