TimR wrote
Rod Speed wrote
Andy wrote

Looking for recommendations for a digital bathroom scale. Thanks

I like the Renpho ES-CS20M. Very reproducible weight and it
changes when you add something small in your hand like the
cellphone. Loads the reading into your smartphone and tracks that.

I'm of the opinion that a high level of precision is unimportant on a
scale.

Yes, but its useless if it doesnt give the same weight when
you weigh yourself repeatedly and fakes that by deliberately
showing the same weight unless there is a big change in weight.

I use a physician's balance beam scale. It does nothing
fancy, and weighs only to the quarter pound.

So isnt much use if you are trying to work out what meals
produce a net weight gain and which ones produce a net weight
loss and whether exercise does help with your weight loss.

But, the battery never dies,

I change the battery so rarely that I much prefer a quicker scale.

and how much precision do you need? Your weight varies
all day long with fluid intake and output, meals, exercise, etc.

Thats why you weigh yourself at the same time of time,
ideally just after you get up and after the first **** of the
day, wearing the same thing every time, what you sleep in.

Weighing to the ounce or gram is just silly.

Not if you are working out what meals produce a net
gain and whether exercise does help with weight loss.

You're insisting on decimal points for a weight that varies
slowly all day and night long. Which one is your real weight?

You dont need the real weight, its the weight change that matters
and trivial to ensure its done with a fixed config every day.

The common advice to weigh once a week is silly too.

Yes.

That doesn't avoid the individual variation. You'd be mathematically
correct to weigh every day and calculate a 5 or 7 day running average.

Or have the scales do that for you.

By the central limit theorem cell means are normally
distributed so you could do statistics.

Much more convenient to have the scales or the phone do that for you.