Weekly Weigh In - new scales are amazing

Yes, I know I've not blogged my food diary this week - suffice to say it's not been too bad, though I did spend the last two days eating out due to being away - I'll try to get better.

On to the weigh in.  I got a nice surprise this week ... I've been using a set of analogue scales for a long time - they were good ones, not cheap, but it was getting wearing having to twiddle the dial to recalibrate them each time, so I decided to invest in a set of digital scales instead.

When they arrived, I weighed myself to find they told me I was lighter than the analogue scales had been saying.  So I did a test at the suggestion of a friend, and weighed a full bag of sugar (in the baking cupboard - I don't use sugar in my day to day diet) ... it turns out the analogue scales weigh over - in fact on one of the three times I tested them, they weighed the 2kg bag at 3.5kg!  (the digital scales were spot on all three times)

So, whilst I don't have an actual weight loss to report this week (as this all happened a few days ago and todays reading is the same), I do have amended figures.  The scale glitch was adding over 5lbs to my weight.


(The boring bit)
Percentage of starting weight lost adjusted down this week - 2.2%
Total of starting weight now lost - 6.5%
And of target weight loss - 21.6%

New weight is 107.5kg ... which is 16st 13, or 237lbs


(and yes, I know that technically I should rejig my weights from day one, but seeing as I don't know if the variance was constant, I'm going to leave them as is)