As we look toward the holidays and all of the food that comes with them, many people are also starting to give extra thought to their waist sizes and/or weight.  The EatSmart Precision Tracker Digital Scale is a great tool for helping you keep tabs, because it actually stores your information and tells you your trends.

I actually have the opposite problem of most people – I have trouble staying heavy enough.  (‘Though don’t go getting the wrong idea.  That is no me on the scale in the photo above!  That’s my five-year-old!  Can’t photograph myself on the scale without altering the weight with the camera. 🙂 )  Weighing myself regularly is extremely helpful for me because if I don’t, I tend to find that I’ve dropped off far enough before I realize it that it’s really, really hard to catch back up.  It’s much easier to maintain if I can catch myself declining while it’s still only a pound or so I need to recover from.

Whether you’re trying to track weight gain or weight loss, the features of this scale make it really easy to do. It will store the information for up to eight different users.  When you step onto the scale, it recognizes which one you are.  (Presumably, if someone else in your household is really close to your weight, it might get a little confused.  We’re all sufficiently different that it has no difficulty.)  It weighs you and first tells you your current weight, just like a “regular” scale.  But then it cycles through several bits of “comparison” information, letting you know how much lighter/heavier you are than the last time you weighed yourself, as well as the total overall change in the whole time you’ve been using the scale.  (If necessary, you can reset it and start over.)

I like this sooo much better than my old scale.  For one thing, my old scale was solar-powered.  This sounds like it would be a really good thing.  Problem is, it requires so much solar power to operate that it really only works right next to an umcovered window at midday on a sunny day.  I don’t know about you, but that doesn’t describe a lot of my house a lot of the time, and it certainly doesn’t describe my bathroom!  I was constantly forgetting to weigh myself during the “right” part of the day and having to jump through proverbial hoops with a buddy and a flashlight to be able to weigh myself. Not so with this scale.  It just works.  (It does require batteries.  However, they’re included, so it works straight out of the box.)

Also, it’s slim.  Look at the difference in thickness between this and my old scale:

And it’s just plain nicer-looking.  So it’s easier to store, but you’re less inclined to feel the need to.

The only thing we found we had difficulty with was weighing the toddler.  She’s too light to register on it, so she can’t weigh herself.  And if I weigh her with me, it thinks I’ve gained too much weight. 😉  Since the toddler is not really our primary reason for owning a bathroom scale, that’s not really a big deal.

EatSmart sells other types of scales, as well.  Visit them on Facebook, Twitter, G+, and/or Pinterest if you’d like to check them out to see the options and/or learn more about the company. 🙂

Disclosure: I was provided with the scale above to facilitate this review.  As always, all opinions expressed here are entirely my own.