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Doctors have claimed time and again that regularly weighing yourself can keep the pounds from creeping up on you. That means you'll want a cheap bathroom scale that gives you the cold, hard, unvarnished facts and does so consistently. But even if your cheap scale delivers as promised, if it isn't durable you may find your well-intentioned efforts evaporating as quickly as those unmonitored pounds add up.

There are two types of cheap scales on the market today: digital and analog. Many of the new-fangled, high-tech versions are more than weight machines. Some can assess your body fat percentage and give you the news through voice activation, and many display your weight in pounds or kilograms. (High school math reminder: one kilogram equals 2.2 pounds.) There's no arguing with these digital bathroom scales -- they give a precise number, usually down to tenths of a pound. But if fudging a bit is more your style, you might prefer the standard mechanical bathroom scale with a pointer that rests on a tiny marker (and sometimes wavers back and forth between two) and can be adjusted to give you a closer approximation of the results you want.

Conair, EatSmart, Health o Meter, Taylor, Tanita, Seca Scales, Soehlne, and Newline are some of the popular producers of bathroom scales. Some weight-loss companies, such as Weight Watchers, also make a buck or two off bathroom scales that bear their own moniker. You can buy a cheap mechanical scale for as little as $9 and a cheap digital scale for less than $30. Upmarket models are priced in the $50-plus range and can easily hit the triple digits; a professional digital scale like you'd find at the doctor's office -- the 599KL Waist-High Digital Scale, with a 600-pound capacity, for example -- costs more than $400.

The most important factor in choosing a cheap bathroom scale is accuracy, followed by consistency and durability. Experts from Mayo Clinic say digital bathroom scales have a better track record for giving the proper weight and for longevity compared to the mechanical scales designed for home use. Moreover, digital scales measure in smaller increments than cheap mechanical scales and the readout, displayed in digits, is much easier to see.

For all these reasons and because the difference in price between cheap mechanical and digital scales is relatively small, we include only the latter on our list of picks, although we do mention a couple of cheap mechanical scales in the discussion that follows. Our research indicates that the EatSmart Precision Digital Bathroom Scale (starting at $29, Amazon) and the Elite ESC9008X Home Electronic Personal Bathroom Scale with Memory (starting at $22, Amazon) are the best cheap scales, and the Taylor Precision 7329B Lithium Electronic Scale (starting at $13, Amazon) qualifies as the runner up. We found that the Taylor LED Superbrite Scale (starting at $18, Amazon) doesn't cut it; users gripe about inaccurate readings and other performance issues.

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Weight Watchers WW-11D Portable Precision Electronic Scale
Health o Meter SAB602-05, Taylor Precision 20044014 mechanical
Taylor LED Superbrite Scale
Taylor Precision 7329 Lithium Electronic Scale
EatSmart Precision Digital Bathroom Scale
Elite ESC9008X Home Electronic Personal Bathroom Scale

 

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