It's official, my WW meeting scale is F-ed up

The confusion never ends!

Last week I weighed on my home scale: 181.8 and then a couple of hours later 187 at my first WW meeting. 

This week I weighed on my home scale: 181.4 and then a couple of hours later 183 at the meeting.

Somewhere in the middle of that, I weighed as low as 177.8 on my home scale over the weekend.  This is driving me nuts.

The WW leader was of course impressed at my 4 lbs loss this week but I told her the scale was jacked up and had put me 5 lbs over my home scale last week and this huge loss hadn't registered at all on my home scale.

It doesn't matter, I've paid for 11 more weeks of the meetings and I will keep following the plan and keep going but I'm discouraged and confused. At least today the discrepency between my home/WW scale actually makes sense when you account for clothing (1.2lbs) and not something crazy like last week (5.2lbs). 

She admits that it's a different scale we used last week vs. this week but says that she calibrated them at the office and they matched perfectly.

Soo... I dunno. But I'm not happy.

I won't buy another WW brand scale again. They are a waste of money.

It's probably your home scale. WW scales are calibrated weekly.. and your home scale is not. WW has to have their scales calibrated.. it's part of the program to keep their scales accurate. That's why I hate weighing at the gym because it's off ..

There is no reason to be mad at WW your mad at the higher scale of course but your scale at home could be inaccurate.. maybe try going to the store and jumping on a scale.. and see what it reads... sometimes they have scales out as samples.. at my grocery store they have a scale that's very accurate to when I was on WW.. it's takes a quarter.. and gives me lucky numbers for the week.. lol

My home scale actually is in line with my surgeon's office scale (always 2 lbs less to account for clothing) so I have a lot of confidence in it cause it's proven accurate to my Dr.'s scale for a year now. But this WW scale is just wonky. I know they are supposed to calibrate them weekly but maybe I'll believe it after some time has gone by. I'm not angry because the number is higher, I'm angry because it it jumped down 4 lbs in 1 week when my home scale didn't move at all, thus more likely than not, showing it is wildly out of whack.

my doctor scale is off and he admits it hadn't been calibrated in some time.... I personally believe in the WW scale and it wasn't always nice to me LOL 

My personal belief? Pick the scale that gives you the lowest weight and call that one the RIGHT scale 

AMEN!  LOL

All scales are different, that's a given. But do you weigh in different clothing at home than at WW? I wore the same outfit every week when I did weigh****chers. Lol What about your intake, are you eating and drinking between the two??

I weigh naked at home and with clothes at WW and I'd expect the difference to be about 2 lbs cause that's what it always is between home and my doctor's office (which accounts for the clothing difference.) Nope, no eating or drinking between home and the meeting.  Last week something was definitely wrong with the scale going from 181 to 187 in the span of 2 hours. This week's "4 lb loss" is really just due to the scale being accurate this week. That's all... that was my point. Rant over.

In California, WW was sued for charging lifetime members for being 2 lbs. over goal on inaccurate scales. They now have their scales calibrated by Weights and Measures. All measure the same.

Depending on the scale used, "calibrating" it might just mean that she zeroed it prior to the meeting started. And a leader would never admit to a scale being inaccurate.