I have a Taylor scale, not the same model, but one that is supposed to track body fat and all that. That scale is sooooo inaccurate it is not funny. For example, I showed my husband (who bought the scale) that I could get on and weigh myself and get a certain weight, THEN, get back on holding a large bottle of shampoo and it would weigh the same. If that was not bad enough, I got back on holding two, large, full bottles of shampoo (.5 litre kind) and it STILL showed the same weight!
Someone much heavier or much lighter has to weigh themselves on it after me before I can weigh myself again and get a different weight. Go figure.
I am new to this thread but I have lost 52 lbs. and sucessfully kept it off for over 5 years.
NancyLynn, those last few lbs. are so hard to lose because if you are trying to do it by dieting, consider that a lb. of fat is equal to 3500 calories. If you want to get rid of a lb. you have to cut out those 3500 calories from somewhere. When calculating calories to cut the formula is normally 15 X (lb. of body weight)=number of calories per day to stay at a certain weight, if you are getting moderate exercise. If you cut 500 calories from that number, you will lose a lb. per week. So, a person that weighs 150 lbs. takes that times 15 and comes up with 2250 calories per day. If they cut 500, they will lose that lb. per week.
The skinnier you get, the harder it gets to cut enough calories to lose! You practically have to stop eating. At 131 lbs. you would have to be eating 1,465 calories per day to lose one lb. per week. That is assuming moderate exercise where you get your heart rate up and keep it up for 30 minutes at a time. If you exercised enough, you could lose more.
I went through this myself, the weight just dropped off when I was heavier but as I got thinner it slowed down and I had to cut calories more and ramp up my exercise. Both very hard to do, especially at the same time as you lose energy when you don't eat as much.
Anyway, I hope this made sense. Maybe you already knew this? If so, sorry for the unsolicited advice