Whack-A-Scale

My scale is starting to go a little wacko. In the span of a few minutes it can go up or down thirty pounds! It's on a flat, hard surface. I don't do anything crazy, like leap onto the scale or anything. I have no idea what's going on. I know some scales can be a little off, but this is ridiculous. I can't afford to upgrade for a couple of weeks. Until then, I guess I'll just weigh myself a few different times until I get to something within 5 lbs of my previous weight. Very, very frustrating.

It would be nice to believe that I'd dropped nine pounds since monday and the 268 lbs it told me this morning was the real weight. But holy mother, the next minute it read 318 lbs. If it reads over 300 lbs again, I'm throwing the damn thing out the window.

My biggest fear is that I'll get a fancy new scale (I'm thinking the Tanita), and find out I'm actually 10 or 20 lbs heavier than its been telling me.

So on Monday, I'm going to see if I can get an accurate reading, but if it says anything over 285 then all weigh-ins will be on hold until I can cough up 50 bucks.