How do you weigh yourself?

[SCIQuad96]

Originally Posted by Emi2

I recently bought that digital scale and found it was a bit too long so my husband replaced the rings/hooks that are on it with smaller hooks/rings - now I have to always hooked up...makes getting weighed much less of an ordeal.

Emily, thanks for the info. Your "tip/what needed to be done" is greatly appreciated. Until I really think I need to know my weight more then roughly every three months I'll stick with going to the rehabs and using their scales.

I range from 160 to 165. If I break the 165 mark I get nuts.

[darlagee22]

One time i impulsively just transferred onto the luggage scale at the airport and my husband helped me put my feet up on it. (I immediately went on a diet!) At home, I put a regular scale on our fireplace hearth and transfer to it, sitting on it without covering up the dial. I lean back & can hold up my legs with my hip flexors & my hands under my knees and my husband reads the dial as soon as I can get still and balanced... A postal scale about the same size works better cuz the readout is on a separate piece.

[GL]

In my Excercise workout area I have a big old scale and I roll my wheelchair up to it and gently stand on the scale and quickly take my readings .

[rybread]

I got weighed once in 2005 right before I went into surgery on a Hoyer lift scale and I weighed 240 pounds. We just recently weight me and my chair on a wheelchair scale at a physical therapy place. The chair and I weighed 180 pounds so we weighed the chair separately and it weighed 35 pounds (the new chair I've got coming weighs 20 pounds with the wheels) so that put my weight at 145 pounds. I've lost 95 pounds in the past five years but I started at around 135 pounds, if not a little bit less so I still feel kind of big. Oh well, at least I fit my chair properly again.

[WolfeMan]

If anyone really wants to weigh yourself, visit you local Post Office, Recycling Center, UPS Store etc. They all have scales our chairs will fit on and at least ask if they mind if you rolled up on them to weigh yourself. They may say no, but it won't hurt to ask. I am forturnate to have a mail facility at work, if not I think I'd give this a try. Obviously, just subtract the weight of your chair.

[forestranger52]

I bought an electronic cable hoist from cabelas for $100.

Mount on cellar ceiling joists.

Gambrel, digital scale and sling. Lift from wheelchair.

[SoulScream]

So I saw a bathroom scale laying there on the floor and thought of this thread. I rolled one wheel up on it then pushed myself sideways till I was balancing one wheel on the scale. It read around 195. I would think this chair is 30 lbs. I'll weight it using the same method next time I wind up on the floor. lol

[Kaitlyn's Mom]

The rehab center Kaitlyn was at had a roll-on scale that weighed her, then weighed and her wheelchair, then just her wheelchair and subtracted the difference. Without one of those, I'm not sure how else she could get weighed.

[GinoL]

I have a sitting scale made by Health-O-Meter. I purchased this years ago, cannot recall where. It works great, you just put it on a chair and sit on it with your feet hanging and then lock the reading by pushing a lever. Very easy to use! I tried Google to find it but no luck. I would post a pic if I could.

[rafiellalove]

I have a roll on scale at my rehab also, also my doctor weighs me every time I come in, same concept, weighing me and the chair and just the chair, subtracting the difference.