How to Weigh Yourself Correctly

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Monitoring your weight is difficult when it can fluctuate three to five pounds in a single day. This system will help.

To complete this How-To you will need:

Your own scale
Level floor
Patience

Step 1: Use your own scale

Always use the same scale. Scales that haven't been calibrated recently can be off by as much as four pounds, so using a variety of scales will make it more difficult for you to monitor gains and losses.

Tip: To check your own scale's accuracy, put a five-pound dumbbell or bag of sugar on it and see what reading you get.

Step 2: Weigh yourself in the morning

Weigh yourself at the same time every day, preferably first thing in the morning, before you eat.

Tip: Don't weigh yourself right after a workout, unless you always weigh yourself right after a workout and never at any other time. Exercising makes you sweat, so the reading may reflect an inaccurate weight decrease.

Step 3: Use a hard surface

Keep your scale on a flat, hard surface; carpeting can affect the reading.

Step 4: Pee before you weigh yourself

Make sure your bladder is empty when you step on the scale.

Step 5: Get naked

Weigh yourself naked or in your underwear; clothes and accessories can add as much as five pounds.

Step 6: Take an average

Weigh yourself on three consecutive days each week, and use the average of those numbers as your weekly weigh-in number.

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[Cullamore]

0:11 thats what my girlfriend does to me everyday!

[AdGarUK]

Step 1: Stop watching Howcast videos

Step 2: Get a Wii Fit

[shay1992ify]

digital scales are the best

[TheraMuttNightwolf]

Lol, using this to gain weight.

Tsk tsk. Fuq da poliec.

[Pondebong]

@Zhx12 whats so bad, no one will see

[ALAJOHNSTONE]

The best result will be in morning, before eating and drinking and after taking a pee and a big poo. Be naked too. An evening weigh is too depressing.

[rihanna1067]

Step 1: Buy a digital scale

[Cullamore]

@MegaSupercat123 haha i knowwww

[MegaSupercat123]

@Cullamore your a animal

[brutaka359]

1:16 I always use a calculator in the shower, what's wrong with that?

[xblazekickx]

your taller in the morning then the night