Another check in the red column!

Yes, that means I'm posting a loss.  This morning's scale reading was 277.1.  Very nice.

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The funny thing about losing weight

You know how the most useful thing for tracking your weight is something to accurately weigh yourself?  Guess what:  Our scale is proving itself quite variable in performance.  I weighed myself this morning and logged the results, then Allison told me that it weighed her about five pounds heavier than her visit to the clinic.

We gave it the old 5 gallons of water test (a gallon weighs about 8.35 lbs.), to see how well it did, and it measured 43.7, which leaves almost 2 pounds for the container.  I took a gallon out and it measured 35.3, which is pretty much in line, considering the assumed 1/10th pound of accuracy.  I also weighed myself 5 more times, putting my weight on different parts of the scale, and measured between 278.5 and 281.9.  I'm still logging my original 281.5, just to be consistent.

Until we can find something to buy that we can trust, I'll be continuing to use our "Weight Watchers" branded scale.

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