Is it time to buy a new digital scale if

[no_hypocrisy]

the numbers don't correspond to your diet and (for lack of a better word) excretion?

First thing this morning, I "gained" one pound. Two trips to the pot and now another two pounds. And this is without clothing or food or drink.

All I had yesterday was a salad with nothing but vegetables and then a turkey Salisbury steak, one beet, and 5 thin asparagus.

I couldn't change the battery because the replacement was low.

Your thoughts?

[True Dough]

1. There are a number of variables that can make your weight fluctuate

throughout the day. Weighing yourself multiple times per day isn't useful, IMO.

If you step on the scale once a week or once a month and you're not seeing the corresponding change you are driving toward, then I would question the calibration of the scale.

[no_hypocrisy]

2. Thank you.

[marble falls]

3. The numbers don't mean so much day to day, what matters is over time: do you weigh ...

... more or less in a month.

Weighing daily might make you start to lose any sense of success. Sometimes ignoring numbers without context to one's overall health is the better part of controlling weight.