Stoptober 2012

[marathondan]

As for scales, avoid the old-fashioned needle-and-dial variety, which aren't accurate enough for me. Get a digital scales, and one that shows you your fat percentage, muscle mass, and all that. These used to be dead expensive but are now becoming pretty standard and relatively cheap. But buy decent scales. I bought some 'bargain' scales from Sainsbury's before I left the UK but I could never get two successive readings to match. So I spent a bit more on a Swiss version, and it's very consistent.

Interesting that you mention this, because your data averaging method should in theory smooth out most of the measurement error. The only problem would be if the scales were going more and more out of true over time.

But I can imagine that after a while in Switzerland, you get used to precision.