Digital or traditional scales - a question

Which are the best ones to use? I have a set of traditional and a set of digital both of which give different starting weights.....started my healthy eating regime a week ago and thought I'd re-weigh myself out of interest. The traditional set said I'd lost a kg whilst initially the digital set said I'd lost 3kg......so I reweighed on the digital cos I thought it was wrong, and it said 1kg lost. Weighed again out of interested and it went back to 3kg

and before you ask - I'm not obsessed with weighing myself, I was just trying to see if I could get a reproduceable results! lol

Reply 1

Sarky

I don't know which ones are better, but if you are gonna track weight loss its probably best to do it on the same scales each time be them digital or traditional. That way at least the weight loss will be consistent i guess.

Reply 2

dh00001

always use the same scales to weigh yourself and judge whats lost from that set.
digital would be more precise but both could be inaccurate.

Reply 3

Anonymous #1

i) It would appear that your digital scales are not to be trusted
ii) there is absolutely no reason to assume that digital scales would be more accurate.

Reply 4

Phantom Phoenix

I was using regular scales when I dieted last year, it took me ages to get below 14 stone and I thought I finally had, was delighted...got some digital scales for my birthday that said I was half a stone heavier than I'd thought. :mad:

I just used the digital ones from then on out of some (possibly mistaken) idea that they were accurate. But, as Sarky said (to paraphrase), it doesn't matter what your scales actually read because if you use the same ones every week they'll tell you accurately what you've lost - which is the important part! Consistency is key.

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