Throw Away Your Scale & Stop Weighing Yourself if You Want to Actually Lose Weight! If you’re somewhere between the age of 5 and 95, chances are you grew up with a bathroom scale. Your great-grandparents probably stepped on one every morning before work. Our parents had at least a one-to-one ratio of scales to bathrooms in our homes. Walk into any Publix Grocery store, and you’ll see a giant scale next to the checkout lines.  Fitness culture has changed and adapted over the last 100 years in 100 different ways. But