Good point Ms Simpson. I'm sure I'm not the only lady who won't get on the bathroom scales until she's completely emptied her bladder and had a big poo. And then gets on and off them several times, leaning in various directions before taking the lowest weight reading as gospel.

Oh, me too. I have electronic ones. Australian bathroom floors are pants for scales, cos the floors slope towards the drain. It can make for very interesting results (and a handy excuse if all the above fails to result in a loss)

When I go for my quarterly diabetes check ups, I have to be weighed. The nurse has one of those giant, very accurate contraptions, where she moves the weight along a big slider thing.

Gruesome thing it is.

I much prefer the scales in the doctor's office, which he drags out from under the examining table, plonks on a big board and put my weight at around 4 kilos lighter than I am at home, in the morning, naked. Marvellous scales!

It's a digital one... it measures water and gives you body fat percentage, but only of your lower body as it runs a fairly low current up through your legs... and of course, that doesn't give you the whole picture.

Hmm, thanks Garry. Does that work with a digital scale too, you think?

That's the sort of one I have. So obviously, I only ever use it for normal weighing (it's a bit like the washing machine - 27 programmes and I use 3 of them)

I have experimented with mine, just for your information. If I weigh myself with one leg in the air, held rigid and outright, it doesn't give the same figure as when I weigh myself with two feet on the scales.

This might have been because I had to hold onto the sink to keep my balance

Stop weighing yourselves people, it's unhealthy.

Thanks... although I'm not holding my leg out ... just lifting it up.

Yeah, that might be why...

Surely just looking in the mirror should do it.

What's wrong with wanting to get a fix on just how much weight you've lost? It's empowering and encouraging.

I lost 5kg before Christmas, and now I'm on the next 5kg.

I lost 5kg before Xmas too...put 3 back on though

I'm so weak willed

Toughts are not "thoughts" unless they are thoughtfully and ponderably "ponderable".

Quite so!

Well done on the weight loss.

So am I.... I just eat chips and drink wine. It's working well.

Thank you.

I like the sound of that diet

Ha.

I only do that on weekends though. And only once... well, all day is once, right?

The rest of the week, I am angelic.

Ponder this:

when rolling out dough for a treacle tart base - see a thread somewhere in this forum discussing pommie puddings (and where you can or cannot buy them) - use a proper rolling pin, not the one which is designed to roll out your children's playdough

My wife pointed out the error!