What Type of Scale do You Like to Use

What type of scale does everyone like to use?

I liked to use the old fashioned weighing machine with the platform and upright with the weights which slide up and down the scales. Half way through their exam I liked to see my patients finally slip their briefs off and stand naked facing outwards on the scales.

I have a regular beam type doctors scale with the height gauge thing on it in my exam room.

I don't trust the long term accuracy of the spring type scales.

I have a double beam balance detecto because I am neurotic about my weight. It has been 115-117 with a absolute max of 120 since college. I hate fat.

Is there someone in Michigan that could weigh and measure me on a monthly basis that would be strict with me?

I'd say the old style analog scale with weights is the way to go. The nostalgia along with having to step up onto it are a nice part of getting the patient details.

I prefer scales with function of body composition monitor. It can calculate BMI, body fat, body age and other indexes based on bioelectrical impedance.

I prefer the standard old fashioned balance beam scales. Seems like a more accurate weight and hardly if ever has a malfunction. Plus patients just look better standing on them in my opinion.

Drive on scale ,take weight and subtract 500 pounds what's left is me .

Method 2 is when I am in the hospital they always put me in a bed with an automatic scale .

@sap I've done that before too and in the hospital all the times I do put me on bed with a scale.

For a while after a year and a half of Prednisone I had to go out to the junkyard and use their scale because I didn't have one that went up about 400 neither did my doctor.

Now that I'm down to about 280 I like these big fancy ones like the metal tilting ones but they're all electronic with my doctor has.

At the doctor's I prefer the old fashioned style balances with the mechanical beams etc on. At home, I have an electronic one that does body composition, body fat % etc. So the best of both worlds.

I have used the same digital scale for many years. It is not the greatest accuracy but you can make yourself seems a bit lighter if you weigh a number of times and take the lowest number!! lol….

Denise

I have used the same digital scale for many years. It is not the greatest accuracy but you can make yourself seems a bit lighter if you weigh a number of times and take the lowest number!! lol….

@Denise if you use the same scale, wearing the same thing, or nothing at all, the weight you get will be accurate within itself.

What is fun though is weighing yourself after a large enema. If you set a baseline you can know how much fluid you've taken 🌹

@eeetime I have weighed myself on several occasions after an enema and I agree with you that it is fun…before the enema, after the enema, and after off loading the enema!! Although the scale accuracy and repeatability may be a factor, it seems that one weighs a bit more after an enema or enema series suggesting that some of the water is retained for awhile until the next time you need to off load the water.

I use a digital bathroom scale that I can stand on. It will read in tenths of a pound as well as in pounds. That way I can see just how much I weigh exactly. I do this in the morning when I first get up and I have not eaten anything. If I also have to use the toilet, I will do that first so that I get my true weight.

Also, when I give myself enemas, I will weigh myself before the first enema is put in. When it is all inside of me, I will weigh myself again with the enema inside of me. When I let the enema out and it is all out of me, I will once again weigh myself. If I give myself a series of enemas, I will also weigh myself before the enema, while holding the enema and again after it is out of me. I like to see if it has made me lose any weight. Most of the time it will make me lose anywhere from 1 to 4 pounds.

I once had the time to do something really special in regard to weighing myself. My wife had gone out of town or a few days and I could give myself as many enemas as I wanted to for several days. I gave myself the first enema after she left. It was 4 quarts. I weighed myself before, while holding it and after I let it out. This was done repeatedly for several hours. I also did not eat anything for 30 hours. I gave myself at least 25 enemas in that time. When I got on the scale after all that time and all those enemas, I found that I lost 8 pounds. I was also very hungry and ate some food. I did not give myself any enemas until the next morning after I weighed myself. I had gained back about 2 of those 8 pounds. Time for more enemas. This lasted about 5 days before my wife came home. I had lost by that time about 10 pounds. She said nothing about the weight loss. But when she saw me nude, she got really sexually excited over it. She must have known that somehow I lost some weight, but never said anything about my weight loss.

Some years ago I switched from pounds to kilos. The mass is the same but the result in kilos is a smaller number 80 k equals about 200 lb.

Selfdelusion is a comforting thing.

I am beginning to think a talking scale would be a good way to go. I am finding it hard to read the scale accurately without my glasses, and I don't usually wear them when I am showering, and that is when I usually hop on the scale.

Have to make sure I don't get one of those smartass scales that say things like “One at a time, people”

Some years ago I switched from pounds to kilos. The mass is the same but the result in kilos is a smaller number 80 k equals about 200 lb.

Selfdelusion is a comforting thing.

@superego At least you own up to it! 😄. Reminds me of “vanity sizing” where the clothing label says it is smaller than it really is - so you think your fitting into a 32 waist pant but it's really a 34 in waist.

I have a digital scale - easy to read. Not concerned with how accurate it is - just consistency so I can see a relative velocity one way or the other.

I think the balance ones with the sliding weights are cool and very strongly associated with a real doctor's office. I had a regular digital scale for years, and a few months ago after losing my scale in a move, I splurged on the home version of an InBody scale that estimates body fat and lean muscle mass in addition to measuring weight. It's pretty cool.

In school, medicals we were weighed on one of the scales described by cesario in the last post. Sometimes in our underpants and sometimes naked.

We have an antique penny scale that we use. I believe it has no springs that wear out and give an invalid weight.

Well, we will be using the Detecto scale with the sliding weights for the first time, Saturday evening. MrsFn will be getting a full play exam. 😉

Fn

I currently use a digital scale for my exams, because it was all I had and haven't been able to invest more, but I personally love the slider scales. I feel they provide a more authentic experience and are much more fun in general to use.

Detecto 439 Weight and Height scale

I have a Salter 145 mechanical set of scales, it has a decent size imperial and metric dial, but i still find it difficult to read from standing,

I'm not sure i'm comfortable with the idea of stepping on glass as is used in some domestic scales, however I agree with other respondants that balance beam scales look more correct for a medical room, something I do wonder is if the electrical current used in the BMI measuring scale would have an effect similar to electro stimulation, or is it just the scenario of a medical examination that I find arousing 😃