Morning weigh-in: 390 pounds (estimated)
Blood pressure: 139 / 93 mmHg
I'll be doing this every Friday morning from now on.
By the way, most bathroom scales these days top-out at or below 330 pounds (150 kg), a factor which contributed to my troubles because once I went over the limit I stopped weighing myself. Eventually, I got smarter and looked for a scale that could handle my weight. This is a specialty item, so you probably won't find at it WalMart. The scale I settled on is the Siltec PS500L which tops-out at 500 pounds. There are other Siltec models with variations in the position of the display and maximum weight.
Make no mistake, this is not a fine measuring instrument. It's shows a different weight depending on whether I put my feet together in the middle or spread them out a bit. I even get different readings depending on which foot I step up with first. However, most of the other scales I could find at the time were much more expensive, $400 or more compared to the PS500L at $170 or so. I don't know if the others would be more accurate either, perhaps they were just more durable or better looking.
I get around these problems by stepping on and off several times with a consistent movement and taking the most common reading.
For my previous weight-check, when I stepped on it read 440. Yikes. I knew I was near 400 but didn't think I'd gone that far over. When I stepped off, I noticed that the scale didn't zero properly but dropped back to 35. I turned it off and on and tried again and got proper zero readings and a weight of 405.
That's another problem with the low-cost PS500L, it has an on-off switch that you have to remember to turn off when you're done. Otherwise the batteries wear down. (I had to replace them today.) It can also accept an AC adapter.
UPDATE: I later became dissatisfied with this scale and bought a new one. The weigh-in amount at the top of this post has been adjusted to reflect my estimated actual weight based on adjustments calculated using the newer scale. The weights in the body of this posting, however, are the actual readings I obtained at the time.
