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[Ang]

The last time I was weighed it was in rehab in 1981 and I weighed 98 pounds. 29 years later I weigh a lot more but I don't know how much exactly. My question is how do ya'll get weighed? Thanks for ya'lls help

[nomis]

Many ways. Once I was weighed on a commercial produce machine - just drove on and deducted the weight of the w/chr. Another time, the hospital had a set of scales with a chair mounted onto which I transfered. But the simplist is to drag out the bathroom scales, get a strong person you trust to pick you up and climb on the scales with you. After that they then deduct their weight and hey presto.

[McTavish]

I go for physio to a hospital once a week and my very nice physiotherapist gets the chair scales for me any time I ask him, it's just a matter of transferring on. I usually do this from the parallel bars when I'm standing, easy peasy, it means so much to us women to get weighed.

[Smileyblue]

I've been thinking about this myself, and have pretty much decided to go to our local scrap collectors.. They have a huge scale as they collect paper, scrap metal, bottles, pretty much anything and weigh it in order to pay whoever brought it in, so I'm sure they'll weight me if I asked them nicely.. And I'll be able to drive on as a bonus.. ;-) My father also suggested the local traffic cops as they have a weighbridge to weigh overloaded vehicles..

I just realised this post makes me sound big as a house! But I'm really not.. It's just the only big, flat scales we could think of that a wheelchair could roll onto.. Lol..
Oh well.. ;-)

[cathie]

I used to jump on the scales at work that were for weighing the horses lol, but now I just get weighed on the chair scales.

[araitn]

I got weighed a few weeks ago for the first time since leaving inpatient rehab, which was about three years ago. I was at a local hospital getting a MRI and asked if they had a way to weigh me. She initially said no but, after talking to someone else they realized they had a couple of new hospital beds that had the added feature of being able to weigh the patient. So, after my MRI they took me to one of the rooms with the new beds, which, I was told costs $13,000!

Before my injury, I weighed between 180 and 185 pounds depending on my eating habits and activity level. I was expecting to weigh a lot more now, maybe 200 pounds, becuase I've gained a lot of muscle in my upper body and put on a little bit of a belly (my wife says I haven't but she's just being nice) in the last few years. Well, to my suprise, I now weigh 165 pounds. I guess the muscle atrophy in my legs, especially below my knees, has outpaced the previous mentioned gains.

So, give the hospitals in your area a call and see if they have any of the beds that will weigh you. I plan on going by a couple of times a year just to keep track of my weight. Good luck.

[rue2you]

I also get weighed at PT. Other than that, good question!!

[sh1wn]

meat scale on a hoyer lift.

[Beautiful]

I don't weigh much, so I just have someone pick me up, step up on a scale, then have them step up on the scale by themselves, and just subtract.

[Maltese Cat]

horse hospitals often have nice big scales you can wheel onto............

[The Black Sheep]

The pick-me-up routine with another person, or I can put a regular bathroom scale in my walker and desperately try not to fall when I let go. It's worked a few times, but not the majority.

[eyelookok2blindgurls]

I just never weigh myself maybe if I started getting fat and looking like a huge krippled whale I would , but if your reasonably happy and healthy is there any real point in weighing yourself ??.

[nomis]

Well, if a doctor is about to pump some medication into you they usually like to measure the dose according to your weight. That's one good reason. Another is to learn you're the same weight as when you were 20 (importance increases with age) so you can nonchalantly drop it into conversations tosuggest you're still fighting fit.

[S&W Winger]

eyelookok2blindgurls, on 08 December 2010 - 04:26 AM, said:

I just never weigh myself maybe if I started getting fat and looking like a huge krippled whale I would , but if your reasonably happy and healthy is there any real point in weighing yourself ??.

Hey I resemble that remark!

Besides the Hoyer lift with built in scale and the beds also thus equipped...I like to pull up at the truck (lorry for you in the UK!) scales...just roll up and get your ticket...my chair weighs 350 lbs., so wtf! how did THIS happen!? I've become a beached whale...

Edited by S&W Winger, 08 December 2010 - 11:22 AM.

[norma]

Any rehab hospital/facility will have a scale you sit in your chair on or they will have a lift to weigh you. The type with the hammok that holds you.

[wheeliebear75]

(nomis darn near said everything I else I was gonna say)

Sea World.....at least the one here has roll-on scale by where the manatees are.

But yeah....almost all our friends can do the piggyback & subtract method on a regular scale.

OR I've also just sat my ass on the part everyone else steps on & sat Indian style/legs crossed & had B/F read the #'s.....may not be very accurate....BUT....it might work for those who are able to sit on the floor without any back-support with their legs crossed. Worth a try.

[MrBump]

i have a hoist with scales on it. I don't use the hoist for moving, just to weigh myself each fortnight just to keep me in check.

[rattrap]

if youre too fat for someone to lift you then just call up local hospital and ask them where their wheelchair scale is and go weight on it. then transfer out of your wheelchair and have it weighed by itself. then do the math. and viola you now have proof that youre fat.

Edited by rattrap, 23 January 2011 - 11:17 PM.

[why_d]

i've scales built into my bed. very handy!

[Flutey]

why_d, on 09 February 2011 - 10:44 AM, said:

i've scales built into my bed. very handy!

Hello everyone, I have just become a member of this forum and was looking at peoples thoughts on how they diet and weigh themselves. I personally know that there is a device on the market that someone has mentioned here. You have to know the weight of your own wheelchair and then you place yourself on the device and the machine deducts the weight of the wheelchair (which you punch in) and yourself, no maths needed lol. These scales were scheduled to be introduced into hospitals but I doubt if that will happen now in light of the recession and cut backs being experienced in a lot of countries and the UK not being unfortunately left out.

Still need a way to lose weight lol. I have CP and was going swimming although now that is causing problems with my stiffness. Any ideas would be most grateful, thanks.