This happened to me in January, after I had decided on the band. I was lying in bed with my husband waiting to go to sleep and I was feeling the rolls of flab. He asked me what I was doing. So I told him and I mentioned that sometimes I wondered if the flab wouldn't swallow me whole and that on occasions I thought of myself as sort of like pizza the hut from spaceballs and that I was worried I maybe gained a few pounds. So he said I should get up and weigh myself then because I would feel better once I got it over and knew if I had gained weight and how much.

So I said ok. I put the scale on the middle of the bathroom floor. I step on the scale. As I am stepping on the scale, the plastic on the edge of it cracks! I broke the scale! And it didn't register weight properly after that. So of course I was mad at my husband for telling me it would make me feel better! Breaking it did not make me feel better. I was also mad at the scale manufacturers since the scale was supposed to support up to 300 pounds and I only weighed 285ish. Which is less than 300! Then my husband fixed the scale by putting a piece of laminet flooring accross it which made the readings accurate. I had only gained one pound!

Then I thought the whole thing was hilarous. I was laughing about it for days! I couldn't wait to tell all of my friends the story of the broken scale! They knew I was getting the Lap band and was just waiting for insurance to approve it.

Anyone else?

I haven't physically broke any, but I got the dreaded "error" message on my digital scale because I weighed more than it could register.

Neal, I loved someone's sig line that used to say "Starting weight: E" I can SO relate to that!

I never broke a scale but I totally broke a chair once. You know those chairs made out of aluminum tubing and wicker that are sort of S shape? There's nothing holding you up except the bent metal in the front. I was sitting on one in a hotel room once when it slowly gave way. Thankfully, I was alone, but it was a bitch getting out of that!

I'm still scared of those chairs. :paranoid

Neal, I loved someone's sig line that used to say "Starting weight: E" I can SO relate to that!

Not the dreaded "E". . It might as well have said "get your fat a$$ off me, your hurting me!" That's how it made me feel:( Iam so weary of those chairs too.

I didnt break the scale, but those one of those flimsy metal message chairs. I went to sit on the chair and there is a rest for your head and one for your arms to cross in the front. Well, as I sat, I put too much weight on my hand and snapped the arm rest right off.

I was soooooooo embarassed! AND It was right in the MIDDLE OF THE MALL.

ugh.

My high weight was 425 freaking pounds!

I used to go down to shipping and recieving at my job and get on the industrial package scale to weigh myself!

Talk about embarassing, but I was on a diet and HAD TO KNOW, ya know?

Besides, I'm a guy, so it was always like a big laugh with the coworkers that I was such a massive dude...

I carried it really well at 6'6", but I was dying from it nonetheless.

I'll never go back there, though. It's banded or bust now.

I never broke a scale, but when I was a teenager my mom bought a stair stepper used.. and the cord on it that made the whole thing work snapped when I was using it. I don't think it was entirely because of my weight, but damn...

I have never broken a scale but I have broke a lawn chair....at a barbecue....with a bunch of people around. :think How embarrassing!

No, I've never gotten above 245lb, but I did once throw a perfectly good scale in the rubbish bin in a temper!

I never broke a scale but I broke my brother's stepstool. It was rated for 200 pounds and I weighed 220. The damn thing just collapsed and I was hanging on the cabinet with my stomach. It really bruised my stomach. I immediately went out and got a little ladder rated at 300 pounds, but I started thinking of doing something about my weight about then.

I had the outer case of a scale crack, my current scale is a speaking scale, it says hello then has to calibrate it self, once its ready it announces "im ready" but t really sounds like it is through gritted teeth because I am about to inflict pain on it! why couldn't they use some like harrison ford as the voice instead of a very whiny little old lady!

BTW Jachut, I can relate to almost destroying a set of scales because I did not like what they said.

Have not broken a chair but have been folded up inside one, one of the folding camping chairs folded up when I sat down- I could not budge as my weight on the seat kept it in the folded position! I was with friends around a camp fire, they only helped me out AFTER they had all run back to thr tents to find there cameras to take pictures!! What are friends for!

Thats what I did- broke the outer casing!

I haven't broken a chair yet, but sometimes I hear creaks that make me nervous.

My husband has a mini. I've explained to him that if I start driving again (I have narcolepsy and need to get more awake and get the narcolepsy under better control) I want to get a bigger car. The mini is a little car. Yes the seatbelt fits and if I slide the seat back I have leg room. But the seats are sort of narrow for a big girl like me. And sometimes when I get in the seat and I hear this big creak! At first I thought I was breaking the seat. And I was thinking "Oh great, I'm breaking the new mini". Then I realized it was just the seat settling into position in the track when when it had been moved or whatever.

I avoid delicate looking chairs-- Just in case. I think of shallow Hal where Gwenyth Paltrow breaks a chair at the restaurant -- I worry about that being me.

Never broke the scale but went to a picnic one sunny afternoon, sat down on the seat of the picnic table (no one was on the other side) and the whole table flipped over!! I cried I was so embarrassed, it's funny now. One of those "that was then, this is now" moments.

I broke a scale once by throwing it out of the bathroom window on the third floor of the house I was living in. Then I went down into the yard, picked it up and threw it against a tree till it shattered. Nuff said.:opps2:

I never broke a scale but I totally broke a chair once. You know those chairs made out of aluminum tubing and wicker that are sort of S shape? There's nothing holding you up except the bent metal in the front. I was sitting on one in a hotel room once when it slowly gave way.

I was sitting at our kitchen table with my husband and son. I leaned back to reach something on the counter...it was like slow motion. I was so pissed. And yes it was a bitch getting up from the floor. I'm glad they were the only ones there.

Have not broken a chair but have been folded up inside one, one of the folding camping chairs folded up when I sat down- I could not budge as my weight on the seat kept it in the folded position! I was with friends around a camp fire, they only helped me out AFTER they had all run back to thr tents to find there cameras to take pictures!! What are friends for!

I have friends like this! They would be crying with me because they would be laughing so hard. There are some girls I occasionally go on vacations with. We were on a trolley ride. Me and my other friend (both of us big) couldnt find a seat. So we sat on a bench together. Our knees were crammed so hard into the front seat we had impressions on them. She said the sucking noise we hear when we stood up would be our butts disengaging, if the seat wasnt attached to our butts when we stood up. We cracked up.