Dodgy NHS weighing scales

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According to the nurse I've lost 7kg (!) since I last saw her last, 6 months ago.

Now I'd love to think I really am that brilliant but I'm still on the same belt notch since last time and I'm pretty sure I haven't actually done anything very much weight-wise since the summer - if anything it should show an increase as I'm wearing more layers and I haven't had my hair cut for yonks.

Me thinks the several sets of scales dotted around the docs surgery & nurses rooms are all out of kilter. Which gets me wondering if my weight decrease/increase really was that important (say for monitoring diabetes) then I think I might take my own scales in each time.

Plus the nurse took my blood pressure at the same visit, telling me afterwards that the pressure gauge starts to go down before she releases the button!

I know not all NHS equipment is this ancient & wonky, as have seen plenty of good looking equipment in hospital during visits, but really at local level can't the docs afford to the time to standardise their scales or buy a new pair?

Now if I really had lost a stone, I mean 7kg, that'd mean a whole new warddrobe...

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[goodlife]

Oh, don't get me started with nurses and their weighing in 'skill's'. I really doubt they are that interested of the results..until they run out of something else to say about your health...then they pull out the 'you could loose some weight' -card
I've been weighed my shoes off and on, my coat ( with half of my belonging still in pockets) on and off...clothes on and almost all off...with old 'manual' type scales and digital.
Doctors only stare the numbers on paper and they don't know what nurses have told you to 'keep on' for weighing...so results can be really up or down.. And not only that...some alter the results depending how much your clothes 'might' wear..kind of educated quess and they wright that down as 'result'...and others don't bother and put the numbers down from scales recardless..
I'm slowly learning not to get bothered...but just do as I'm told and unless their stupidity start shining and I get some comments...then I give them my thoughts about it 

[Digeroo]

Weight loss does not always equate with shape loss.   

Saw a programme on TV recently and they were suggesting that weight is not a reliable indicator of health.  They lined a set of people up by weight, BMI,  by % fat every time there was a little shuffling of the order.   Then they lined them up on how quickly their heart rates recovered after exercise and then there was a complete about turn.  Several large muscly people shot to the good end and many of the thin skinny people went to the bad end. 

I believe that thinking about your weight too much is fattening.