The prior art shows a number of different types of footwear, for various purposes, having weight sensors—typically in the form of strain gages—adapted to provide a measurement of a person's weight or the distribution of weight over a footprint area or portion thereof. U.S. Pat. No. 7,174,277 to Vock et al. shows in FIGS. 57-62 a personal weighing system including a strain gage mounted in the tread or sole portion of a shoe and connected to a telemetry system for sending weight information to a remote receiver. (It should be noted re Vock et al. that the disclosures relative to the determination of an individual's weight are highly conceptual and some doubt obtains as to the ability of the systems and devices shown to accurately make the determination claimed. Specifically, determining the true weight of all object depends on the entire weight of the object being borne—supported—by the scale or scales alone. No portion of the object's weight may be borne or supported by anything other than the scale or scales. In the present invention, projecting the scale or scales beneath the shoe's sole insures that all of the subject's weight is borne and supported by the scale or scales alone.) Further prior art is shown in U.S. Pat. No. 6,122,846 to Grey et al., in which strain gages are mounted in a sensing unit in the sole of a shoe-type foot plate apparatus. This system is designed to communicate information to a remote display similar to that of Vock et al. A still further system is shown in U.S. Pat. No. 5,253,654 to Thomas et al. and includes a weight sensor disposed inside the shoe with a strain gage pad connected by a wire to a readout on the wearer's waist.