On Monday, March 4, 2019 at 12:03:45 PM UTC-5, Rod Speed wrote:
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 just incredibly stupid, even for a troll. Tim is right. You're
not going to determine which meals produce a net gain, whether exercise
helps, by looking at gram or ounce changes in your weight. You can't.
You need to maintain a diet and check after a week or two, at which point
Tim's doctor type scale is perfectly adequate. And anyone who's been on a
diet and monitored their weight, can tell you that your weight can go up or
down by a pound or two or more, seemingly randomly, while you haven't
changed what you eat or the amount of exercise. And then suddenly after
your weight has been staying the same, it will suddenly be a couple pounds
less on a day when you measure it. I've gone for several weeks, the scale
registering the same weight, then suddenly two pounds lighter one day,
without changing anything. And then it tends to level off there again for
some period. Thinking you can weigh to the gram and figure out what's working
is totally nuts. I've never heard such BS.







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.

More BS, as anyone who'd dieted would know.




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.

Much easier to just focus on the longer term, a week to week timeframe,
as Tim said and no need to average anything. The more complicated you make
it, the more likely people are to fail. Most diets probably fail because
people have stupid expectations. They put 30 pounds on over 5 years, then
expect to lose it in a month and thinking that they need to and can track
in by the gram is equally dumb. First week the BS numbers don't seem right,
they quit and it's back to the old ways.