I didn't have any scales in my house for about 4 years... and I put on about 40kgs !
So now they're back in *grrrrr*. I have a love/hate relationship with them. I'm scared to way myself (I do that about once a month). But everytime I do and I have lost weight, it REALLY motivates me and gives me a health boost. So I guess it kinda works for me. But I totally agree that daily way-ins are just ridiculous. It varies wayyyyy too much! And to be honest, when you (ehmm..I..) are talking about loosing 40kgs, a couple of grams water retention is not relevant. (Maybe that's why I like 'oldfashioned' sales , they are not so accurate they show full kg and not g) So I guess what I'm trying to say is that a little variation in weight doesn't bother me, as long as the overall trend is downwards... Does that make sense? When you are as big as me, clothes have to be looser anyway (otherwise I look like a fat german sausage ), therefore I can't usually tell if I put on 5kgs or not...
Good thread though!
Last edited by Raupe; June 18th, 2010 at 05:21 PM.
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I have some. But they don't work right. They give different weights depending what surface you put them on and always weigh light anyway.
DS likes playing with them, but they're not much good for anything else.
I don't have any at all. If anything i would be one to go by the way my clothes fit me. I had a hand me down set of scales but i know they were never accurate, i think they were a little on the light side.
Where do you people go that you can weigh kids? Mine are too big for the parcel scales at the post office and one gets "booooooooooored" at the doc and the other freaks out at being locked in so I try not to take them to the doc if at all possible.
Mind you, DD#1 has been almost 30kg for the last few years but has grown at least 6 inches taller ...
We don't! Shel and I have never had a set of scales in the whole time we lived together. My history of anorexia was why we never had them when we first met. We have just never bought any. I think think they are necessary.
We do have a Wii Fit thing, but I am lazy and haven't been on it since January. I haven't weighed myself since then LOL!
We too go on how our clothes are fitting. For paracetamol, we use Dymadon, and the highest dose they have is for a weight that she was about 6 months ago. So I just look up the dose for weight, and do a bit less than that.
they show full kg and not g) So I guess what I'm trying to say is that a little variation in weight doesn't bother me, as long as the overall trend is downwards... Does that make sense? When you are as big as me, clothes have to be looser anyway (otherwise I look like a fat german sausage
), therefore I can't usually tell if I put on 5kgs or not...
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