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For a long time now I’ve been weighing myself daily, but I realised in the beginning that the numbers the thing is that when you geton the digital body scales tend to be nonsense. Weight measurements are just like opinion polls – individual results don’t explain to you anything because there’s too much random noise, error and variation. It’s only after you have a few dozen you can start to reliably find a trend.

 

But that noise taught me to be curious. It’s very easy to chalk up weight gains and losses to hidden forces or semi-scientific concepts like ‘starvation mode’, but once you do that you lose feelings of control. Understanding is power, and I desired to understand what myself did during a single day that caused my weight to vary a lot from one morning to another.

 

I received my Etekcity Digital Body Weight Scale with Step-On Technology, 400 Pounds, Elegant Black and also for the price I got this for I was really surprised at the quality. The scale came nicely packaged inside a retail box surround with molded packaging foam, the industry must, simply because this scale is manufactured out of tempered glass. The scale sported batteries to power this up and works straight as is also. It is a basic step-and-read function that ranges from 11lb to 400lb although I have seen it working pretty reliably in the 11lb threshold. Overall, I would this scale is current accurate and precise meaning the extra weight is pretty close as well as the groupings are close together or else equaled. This is auto off/auto on just geton or on either activate or off – it happens to be that easy.

 

I benefit from the fact the lcd is backlit and I must say the digital numbers are fairly big enough to see. I was really astonished at how small this scale was but can’t help but concern yourself with shattering the glass. I have seen good and terrible reviews because of this scale but I would point out that is to human error. If you leave the dimensions on the ground and try to keep from moving or picking this I would say you happen to be safe. But of course when you ding the corner it'll shatter. Overall, for that price of the scale it is really a steal because the product quality, slimness, accuracy are actually just superb and I would recommend.

 

None of the is massively surprising naturally, but what I think it shows is merely how unreliable any single measurement of weight is. On virtually any day my weight varied by about four pounds, using a dozen pounds passing in and out in the giant meat tube which is me at just vaguely predictable times. When you consider a sensible weight reduction target is maybe 0.25lbs each day, you will notice how coming from all days that’s just likely to be swallowed up within the noise. While I was generally lighter inside mornings and heavier after meals as you’d expect, my exact weight at any time was really only a crap shoot. Only by considering a long-term view, over many days, would it be possible to find out the genuine trend.

 

So how would you figure out how much you weigh? Whatever you do, don’t belong to the trap of weighing yourself weekly – it’s not enough data that you can know what’s really happening. Weigh yourself every day, but disregard the number that comes through to the scales. Instead grab the average in the last a week (preferably ten or fourteen), and after weeks look at how that average is beginning to change over time. That’s the spot that the real truth lies. More at etekcity.com