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I've always checked my Tanita scale against the doctor's scale. Before I leave for an appointment I'll step on mine with my clothes and shoes and the whole trip. Then I'll go to the doctor's office and step on theirs. They always match exactly. If they didn't match I assume I would buy a new scale. 

Based on old scales becoming less accurate, I would guess that the new one is right. I've been known to set dumbbells or kettlebells on them as a test. It's a pointless test because the scale always correctly reads whatever I set on it, but maybe if you're comparing two scales you could see if one or the other is off.

Do you have a dumbbell lying around? I've tested my scale by putting a 5lb dumbbell on it, it came up as 5lbs, so I knew my scale was accurate. :)

 

Errr...never mind, I just saw Swigg's comment! :/

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Sarah

I kind of assume there will be some variation with different scales.  So I just pick one---MINE---and that's the one I watch.  I always weigh with nothing on, and at the doctor's office I'll have clothes on, sometimes heavy winter stuff, so obviously that will be different.  I'm not going to worry about the doctor's scales!

I like the dumbbell idea. So simple yet so good. So then for the last 5 years my weight wasn't really my weight...that's hard for me to wrap my brain around. I felt great at 118, which was really 121 if my scale is correct. I am going to do the bell test when I get home.

A lot of this is SOOOOO mental!  I mean, I can get on the scales one day and see 142.  Next day it's 140, so while I don't look one tiny bit different and all my clothes fit the same, on my 140 days I feel so incredibly much slimmer!  Next day the scales pop up a pound or two, and that feeling is gone, suddenly I feel like a bloated pig.  The scales often have the power to make my intellect disappear.  Blast those scales.....

It's so annoying isn't it?!!  I have been toying with the idea of putting the scale away for a while and not stepping on it.  It is downright ridiculous that if I am fitting in the same clothes and look the same in the mirror that I should feel bloated and fat and unhappy if it reads 118 and leaner and more confident if it reads 115!

Like Carola said, the scales have the power to make my intellect disappear--and add to that my common sense! Why do we (I) care so darn much?