Recommendations for scale

[catsittingstill]

Okay, this is kind of personal but...

I'm thinking that I could really stand to lose some weight.  However my scale is an old analog model and it doesn't work reliably.  Depending where I stand on the platform I can "gain" or "loose" about six pounds--and sometimes the dial sticks altogether  and registers me as 20-40 pounds lighter than usual.

Does anybody have any recommendations for a good, sturdy, inexpensive scale, accurate to about a pound?  (or maybe I should say precise to about a pound--I don't care if it registers my exact weight as long as it registers my weight consistently, and registers changes in my weight accurately).

Recommendations gratefully received.

Comments

[quadrivium.livejournal.com]

I have a digital scale that I like. The brand name is Tanita, and it will also give an estimate of one's body fat percentage. I don't know how accurate the body fat measurements are, but the actual scale portion works very well.

[bedlamhouse]

I love our Tanita because I can set it to stone/lbs which keeps my mind working and fools my friends (*grin*)

It's the same general model as the one fleetfootmike has.

[quadrivium.livejournal.com]

How cool! I wonder if I can set mine to stones.

[judifilksign.livejournal.com]

The CURVES women's gym has one of these. You stand on it barefoot, and the metal parts send an electric impulse through your body. The time it takes to go through your body tells the resistance, and it can calculate body fat from that. High level models need you to input your height to accurately do that.

[mdlbear]

There's a large selection of inexpensive ($20-40) digital scales. They're based on solid-state load cells and appear to be quite accurate as well as precise. Ours was purchased at Macy's, has a 1" LCD display, and reads very consistently down to .1 lb. HoMedics brand IIRC; I looked this morning but that was over an hour ago and I have a memory like a steel sieve.

[randwolf.livejournal.com]

I have an old Krups mechanical scale with a clock dial; it's good to within a pound or two, but Krups doesn't even make them any more! I don't think the body-fat measuring technology is worth it for most people (and Consumer Reports says the most accurate of those can still be off by as much as 5%); a waistline measurement will usually tell you what you need to know for health purposes.

BTW, Kung-Fu Panda is pretty good.

[catsittingstill.livejournal.com]

I've heard good things about Kung-Fu Panda, and intend to see it one of these days.

I imagine the body-fat measuring thing would only be worthwhile if you're combining weightloss and strength training, which I wasn't planning on doing--at least not in any big way.

[mbumby.livejournal.com]

I also have a digital scale (I think Tanita) that reports body fat. (Mine reports to the half-pound, and the body fat to the percentage -- my sister has the older brother that may be more accurate on the weight, and reports body fat to the half percentage.)

When you start getting (ahem!) older, the folks who do your annual physical start being more concerned with body fat. There's a "should" range. (Different for women and man, different as you age...)

The directions for using the scale have all sorts of guidelines for getting accurate readings -- don't do it when you first wake up, don't do it after exercising or bathing ... Since I'm not usually at home during the 37.2 seconds when it's likely to be most accurate, I get numbers all over -- between 26% and 31% usually. (I think I "should" be aiming at 25%.)

I think it's more a "general health" thing than a "strength training" sort of thing.