Joined: 07 June 2007 United Kingdom Posts: 1197 Gender: Female
Posted: 25 March 2008 at 7:51pm | IP Logged
I weighed myself yesturday and was dishearted that i hadnt lost so today at work i used our scales there (big industrial ones ) which are 100% accurate (there calibrated ) and said i was 7lb lighter than my scales i asked a woman at work if they would give me a more accurate result than my own to which she said yep ! so thinking i had buggered scales lol i brought some more (@22.99) got home trie them out for them to give me the same weight as my other ones well i then screamed shouted then tried the kg section (same as at work ) and got virtually the same result as the work ones .Why is it these scales vary so much between stones and kg's (in stones i weigh 13st 11lb ish and in kg's im 86 which converts to 13st 5lb ) why such a vary in results eh?
Joined: 11 June 2005 United Kingdom Posts: 5844 Gender: Female
Posted: 25 March 2008 at 8:02pm | IP Logged
I have no idea why they convert so odd but I have exactly the same problem. When I was weighed at the hospital I had lost a good amount of weight in kg but when I weigh myself in stone on the home ones they read exactly the same as they always do, I too thought they were broken and tried the kg weight and got the same as the hospital..... Maybe scales are made to kg as we are meant to be a decimal nation now and they convert them inaccuratly to stone and pounds.
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Posted: 25 March 2008 at 8:29pm | IP Logged
lol Chris (sorry ) least u wont have so much confusion unlike us
Sam thats what dh said that we are not ment to use stones ect anymore its meant to be in kg ! that suits me just as long as the hospital weigh me in kg when i go back it just really upset me that one said one thing and other said another thing .
Joined: 09 December 2006 United Kingdom Posts: 990 Gender: Female
Posted: 25 March 2008 at 10:10pm | IP Logged
To be honest most scales weigh differently i have 2 sets here that are 7lb diff from each other then my mums weigh between the 2 - best thting to do is stick to same scales then u know u def have lsot iykwim? :)
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Topic: omg how stupid lol
well i then screamed shouted then tried the kg section (same as at work ) and got virtually the same result as the work ones .Why is it these scales vary so much between stones and kg's (in stones i weigh 13st 11lb ish and in kg's im 86 which converts to 13st 5lb ) why such a vary in results eh?
Mine converts exactly to what it says I am in stones/lb's My scales just say... 'loose weight' pmsl
