To be completely honest, part of me is beginning to doubt the accuracy of the scale. I mean, of course if you get on twice in a row, you get a different number, slight shifts in weight distribution effect weight recorded on every scale I've ever owned, but part of me doesn't believe even the general downward trend, despite using the same scale for every weigh in in the same location on the same bathroom floor wearing very nearly the same thing (nightgown or nothing).