Weight Disaster

[sunny-dave]

I've had my scales for years.

For quite a while now they have assured me that I'm a pretty much constant weight - somewhere mildly above 'acceptable' but well below 'you fat bar steward'.

I have, however, become suspicious of their veracity and so I invited a much smaller person to try them ... they were mortified to discover that they weighed the same as me ... which was patently not true.

I've invested this morning in a new set of scales ...

... according to them I am now "one at a time please" - about a stone and a half above the reading on the old set.

Which means that I have to stop blaming my washing machine for shrinking everything, and start a diet.

Oh buggeration :((

[gness]

Now you've worried me, Dave.....

I returned from a Guinness drinking....Irish food holiday and my scales read the same as before I left.....or I thought they did!

Am I brave enough to buy new scales?....☺

[ummmm]

Oh dear :-)

[Old_Geezer]

I don't trust scales. Maybe I need a set of those clinical ones where one slides the weights along until they balance. I think they are less likely to give questionable readings than these new fangled digital display and pressure sensor ones.

[berniecuddles]

Dave you are what you are-you live once-sod it!!!

[petal54]

our scale depend where they're placed on the floor,move a few inches to gain/loose weight

[Butterbun]

I know the feeling sunny-dave. Most of my clothes seem to have 'shrunk' too.

[Baldric]

I've been on a Diet for two weeks, eating less, no beer, some wine + G&T at weekends in moderation, ,lots of dog walking and I'm weight training as normal, blooming scales haven't moved,
think I might pop down the Surgery and hop on the Nurse
's scales, just to check if mine need replacing.

[gness]

That 's threw me there, Baldric....thought you had a new weight loss method you'd been keeping to yourself....☺

[Barmaid]

I dont need scales. I went into the office recently and sat on a desk to have a chinwag with a couple of people. Bloody thing groaned, creaked and damn near collapsed.

[Baldric]

It's gotta be worth a try gness
(interesting typo)
;o)

[sunny-dave]

If you hop on this nurse you could lose more than a few pounds ...

http://images.sodahead.com/profiles/0/0/2/0/1/0/6/6/1/mslr-39522900744.jpeg

[Baldric]

Oh Dear!

[askyourgran]

Dave I have scales which are completely wrong all the time. I can walk around the house with them and I weigh anything between 9st and 15st. I only use them to weight our suitcases on for holidays now....at least we haven't had to pay excess yet.

[murraymints]

Dave I'd just use the old one , at least you won't be depressed !

[boxtops]

You can always hop on the scales in your local chemist, they're supposed to be correct :-)

[gness]

Don't those have a weight limit, Boxy?.....;-)

[Baldric]

Boxy I'll stick with my idea @ 1509
;-)

[Eve]

I was going to ask what kind of floor you have put them on.

I had a full on indignant moment with some new scales I had...before finding out you aren't meant to put them on carpet...only after returning them to Argos on the grounds they were broken...

(hangs head in shame)

[Old_Geezer]

IMO any that do not work on carpet ought to be returned as defective. When I first bought my present house the only uncarpeted room was the garage ! What sort of designer thinks it ok to create scales that cease to be accurate if not on a solid floor ? I don't weigh any less in soft soled shoes than I do in hard soled shoes ! It's a design flaw.

[gness]

Wow...thanks, Dave....thought I'd get a slap with a wet fish for that....☺