Sure, your "friend" is the 500 lb behemoth. One of the people in the thread suggested not even weighing himself and just start losing weight until the scale registers as a first goal. Fatty makes the ridiculous excuse that only seeing the starting weight will motivate him. Same whale song as usual Fatties are just asking for it. Plenty of ways to get the answer to this on the Internet without embarrassing yourself on the LoseIt sub. Hammy was just looking for some praise on the fact that it INTENDED to lose weight. Ps a Google search on this lead to bunch of "bariatric" scales, most of which come with a handheld display that plugs into the base, seeing as how they wouldn't be able to read the number on the scale itself. Hilarity.