What’s wrong with my scale?

[Anonymous]

The numbers on my scale have started to become wacky. I usually weigh myself in the same corner of the bathroom, and I’m getting numbers that are -+ 5 lb within the same day.

Is the scale (which is just a year old) just not reliable? It’s Amazon so perhaps not great quality. Any recs?

[Anonymous]

If you weigh something like a 5-lb weight does it also fluctuate? Is it level? Need new batteries?

[Anonymous]

Can you calibrate by weighing something of a known weight? Like a 50 lb bag of rice or dog food?

[Anonymous]

Good ideas…I weighed a 5 lb weight and it’s telling me that it’s 5.8 lb. Then it said that it was 5lb.

So the weight itself could be not quite right or the scale is off. But it is giving me different numbers even for the weight itself.

[Anonymous]

Does it have a battery? My scale does this when the battery is getting low, just becomes more erratic. Worth a try. Otherwise, sounds like you need a new one…

[Anonymous]

A lot of scales you need to step on, step off, wait a second and step back on.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does it have a battery? My scale does this when the battery is getting low, just becomes more erratic. Worth a try. Otherwise, sounds like you need a new one…

+1

[Anonymous]

Mine says I lost 40-50 lbs overnight. Need to check the battery. But it’s my goal weight….

[Anonymous]

Mine says “one person at a time”. WTF?

[Anonymous]

What do you “within the same day” ?

If you yourself nude first thing in the morning, step off, step back on and it is a more than 1 lb difference, it is your scale.

If you weight yourself nude first thing in the morning, get dressed, eat breakfast, have a couple cups of coffee, eat lunch, weight yourself again- yes the number could be a 5 lb difference

[Anonymous]

Relatedly…If anyone knows…

So my scale shows different weights depending on where it is on the floor. I know I should just always weigh myself in the same space to gauge if it’s moving up or down, but I genuinely want to know what I really am.

For example: in one corner, it’ll say I’m 122. But just weighing myself 6 inches away, I’ll get 125. It’s consistent on each spot, with a flux of 3 lb. So what am I? The heavier weight? The lower weight?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Relatedly…If anyone knows…

So my scale shows different weights depending on where it is on the floor. I know I should just always weigh myself in the same space to gauge if it’s moving up or down, but I genuinely want to know what I really am.

For example: in one corner, it’ll say I’m 122. But just weighing myself 6 inches away, I’ll get 125. It’s consistent on each spot, with a flux of 3 lb. So what am I? The heavier weight? The lower weight?

Find the hardest, flattest spot. Clean any dust/debris from the pads. Make sure the batteries are fresh. That’s about what you can do with an at-home scale.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A lot of scales you need to step on, step off, wait a second and step back on.

Does anyone know why this is? It’s true for me. It’s almost always a pound more or less when I step off and then get back on and if I get on and off repeatedly it stays that second number.

[Anonymous]

We have a joke in our house we pick the best of 3 lol weight yourself 3x and pick the best number lol.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Relatedly…If anyone knows…

So my scale shows different weights depending on where it is on the floor. I know I should just always weigh myself in the same space to gauge if it’s moving up or down, but I genuinely want to know what I really am.

For example: in one corner, it’ll say I’m 122. But just weighing myself 6 inches away, I’ll get 125. It’s consistent on each spot, with a flux of 3 lb. So what am I? The heavier weight? The lower weight?

Mine is like this. No idea what my true weight is, but I keep it on the flattest spot and only weigh myself there. If it shows I’m heavier, then I’ve gained. I don’t care about the exact number, just if it is going up or down.