Most mornings we go through the same routine: we step on our digital scale, grab something heavy and step on again, then weigh ourselves a third time. The reason? The scale gives a different reading before and after we hold the heavy thing (in our case, a storage bin of out-season clothes). We've learned not to trust it, and have begun to feel nostalgic for a good old fashioned analog scale. Here's why else we want one.
• Large, easy-to-see dial face.
• Circular dial gives a more visceral sense of relative weight gain or loss.
• Four little colored tabs fit around the face to mark weight goals and milestones.
Since the relative accuracy of an analog scale's spring mechanism trumps the body fat readouts and tenth of a pound increments of our digital scale, we'll be picking one of these up soon.
$84.00 at Amazon.
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Ha. I do exactly the same thing! Maybe i should switch too.
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Can I say this? My analog health-o-meter is not so accurate.. although it is very beautiful.
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I just dumped a Homedics digital scale, the weight fluctuations were sometimes up to 8lbs over, (for me thats an anxiety attack waiting to happen, lol). I thought I was having health problems till I started reading up on how crappy digital scales are on a bunch of sites. I even had my thyroid checked cause it seemed weird for my weight to fluctuate so radically. So, out the door with the last clutter clearing it went and I bought a 30 dollar no name little old school one and it is point on. I just have to set the arrow to zero when I move it round a lot. BUt it matches up with the scale at the gym (same kind doctors offices have). So, I'm over the digital ones, this was the second one that let me down. analog all the way for me
;-)
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OH this could be the answer to my life's problems!
DCRny - which one did you get?
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I love my digital one. Used to own 2 (one $30 other $95) and they stopped working after a few years, so I just replaced it with one from Sam's Club (Homedics). Works great. The problem isn't with the digital part of it, it's just the model and how old it is; anything electronic has only so many months of real use, after that stuff gets broken and needs to be replaced.
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Why does anyone need to weigh herself every morning? Obsessed?
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