FatBadger
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I hate our scales.
I know that sounds like the setup for a jokey poke at not liking what they keep telling me and that they are in league with the mirror at the top of the stairs which has someone else living inside it, who keeps stepping into view at the same time I arrive, but clearly isn’t me. (I will catch him out one day. I’ll sidle up to that mirror all sneaky like and he won’t be there and I’ll have been right, yes right all along.)
But despite how it sounds, this isn’t a setup for some witty rant about those two, liars though they are. But actually to ask you folks if you use scales that you swear by and would highly recommend as I’m honestly not so happy with the ones we’ve had over the years.
We’ve had our current ones for about five years now I suppose. They’re digital, which was supposedly to avoid the difficulty of reading the result on the old fashioned type and were a replacement for another digital set I’d fallen out with. But not to digress… if I step on them now, I’ll get a weight. But if I weight a few moments and try again, I’ll get a different weight! And depending on what mood the thing is in, these might be wildly different! Leading to a frustrating third attempt, to see which of the other two it might be most similar to!
If I weigh a two pound bag of flour on our kitchen scales, it’ll say two pounds. (Not that we have a two pound bag of flour in the house anymore.) And if I then weigh it again, it’ll say two pounds! Because of course it bleedin will, because it’s a two pound bag of flour! This apparently is too much to ask from bathroom scales!
Since my diagnosis four weeks ago now, I’ve vowed to be kinder to my mental health, by stepping on the scales once and once only and I’ve stuck to that, I have. But then this morning it all went a bit pear shaped! First I forgot to have the light on. So it was dim and I couldn’t make out where the reading was going. So I lent forward to better see, which of course upset the scales and skewed the result.
Cursing, I turned the light on, waited a few moments and started again and this time it told me that since last Saturday I’ve lost A STONE!! For goodness sake. I walked away and tried again five minutes later, this time I’d lost six pounds. Tempted as I was to believe that one, I waited again and on the next try it said I’d lost two pounds. I can believe that, it sounds about right so that’s what I’ve settled on.
Anyway… my question is, what do you folks use? Does anyone have a (hopefully not expensive) recommendation for a make of scales that might just reliably offer me the curtesy of an accurate measurement. You know….. the same way our £3.50 kitchen scales would do for, a potato? Not that we have potatoes in the house anymore either…… Ah, chips.
Badger
I know that sounds like the setup for a jokey poke at not liking what they keep telling me and that they are in league with the mirror at the top of the stairs which has someone else living inside it, who keeps stepping into view at the same time I arrive, but clearly isn’t me. (I will catch him out one day. I’ll sidle up to that mirror all sneaky like and he won’t be there and I’ll have been right, yes right all along.)
But despite how it sounds, this isn’t a setup for some witty rant about those two, liars though they are. But actually to ask you folks if you use scales that you swear by and would highly recommend as I’m honestly not so happy with the ones we’ve had over the years.
We’ve had our current ones for about five years now I suppose. They’re digital, which was supposedly to avoid the difficulty of reading the result on the old fashioned type and were a replacement for another digital set I’d fallen out with. But not to digress… if I step on them now, I’ll get a weight. But if I weight a few moments and try again, I’ll get a different weight! And depending on what mood the thing is in, these might be wildly different! Leading to a frustrating third attempt, to see which of the other two it might be most similar to!
If I weigh a two pound bag of flour on our kitchen scales, it’ll say two pounds. (Not that we have a two pound bag of flour in the house anymore.) And if I then weigh it again, it’ll say two pounds! Because of course it bleedin will, because it’s a two pound bag of flour! This apparently is too much to ask from bathroom scales!
Since my diagnosis four weeks ago now, I’ve vowed to be kinder to my mental health, by stepping on the scales once and once only and I’ve stuck to that, I have. But then this morning it all went a bit pear shaped! First I forgot to have the light on. So it was dim and I couldn’t make out where the reading was going. So I lent forward to better see, which of course upset the scales and skewed the result.
Cursing, I turned the light on, waited a few moments and started again and this time it told me that since last Saturday I’ve lost A STONE!! For goodness sake. I walked away and tried again five minutes later, this time I’d lost six pounds. Tempted as I was to believe that one, I waited again and on the next try it said I’d lost two pounds. I can believe that, it sounds about right so that’s what I’ve settled on.
Anyway… my question is, what do you folks use? Does anyone have a (hopefully not expensive) recommendation for a make of scales that might just reliably offer me the curtesy of an accurate measurement. You know….. the same way our £3.50 kitchen scales would do for, a potato? Not that we have potatoes in the house anymore either…… Ah, chips.
Badger
