Went to the doctors today, and hopped on the scales upon the appropriate instruction … to be told that I weighed 2½Kg LESS than my own scales had measured this very morning!

On the one hand … cooool; but on the other my scales are seriously rubbish (maybe the doctors are too), so ….

… can anybody recommend some accurate bathroom scales to me please? Ta!

had you eaten, drunk anything or been to the loo after weighing yourself in the morning?

doesn’t your weight fluctuate by up to 5 lbs or something during the day?

Organic355 : Nope – only 20 minutes between the two weighings. nothing in or out, as it were …

I’ve got the weightwatchers electronic ones, about £15 in sainsbury’s, always read the same as any others I use.

Were you wearing shoes etc at home?

Floor surface and calibration.

Yes bathroom scales are not that accurate.

Yep, docs use the old fashioned looking slidey-metal-bar scales for a reason!

Our bathroom scales are fancy electronic ones that tell you your body fat, bmi, muscle mass etc

All well and good, but I can drop half a stone just by weighing myself again!
We’ve resorted to weighing ourselves multiple times and taking an average.

Ive got a set of those fancy ones and they weigh me half a stone heavier than a set at my mates house, he reckons theirs read exactly the same as the ones at the hospital, so maybe the fancy ones arent always that accurate, or so I hope.

Perhaps it’s a vanity result. Much like the way in which women’s clothing sizes have been tinkered with in order that Lucy from HR can con herself into thinking she’s a 10, when she looks like a galleon in full sail.

I had some scales where the strain gauge was actuated by a set of metal linkages that just moved against each other roughly, no bearings or anything. So it was jerky enough on a tiny scale to affect the readings significantly. If I lowered my weight on carefully it ended up with a lower reading by 2-3kg than if I stood on it heavily straight away.

apologies for hi-jacking the thread a little, but i too am in the market for new scales, am looking at electronic ones that will measure fat/muscle etc, and had noticed that the variance issue comes up a lot on reviews.

so are old fashioned needle type ones a better bet?