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Gravity wants to accelerate you at $9.8~\mathrm{m/s^2}$ downward when you are standing on a scale. The scale, which is on the floor, which is on the Earth, wants to resist your downward acceleration. So, the scale must resist that acceleration with a $F = m*9.8~\mathrm{m/s^2}$. It shows up as your weight on the readout.

Even though you aren't moving, you are still being subjected to a gravitational acceleration.

Gravity wants to accelerate you at $9.8~\mathrm{m/s^2}$ downward when you are standing on a scale. The scale, which is on the floor, which is on the Earth, wants to resist your downward acceleration. So, the scale must resist that acceleration with $F = m*9.8~\mathrm{m/s^2}$. It shows up as your weight on the readout.

Even though you aren't moving, you are still being subjected to a gravitational acceleration.

Gravity wants to accelerate you at $9.8 m/s^2$ downward when you are standing on a scale. The scale, which is on the floor, which is on the Earth, wants to resist your downward acceleration. So, the scale must resist that acceleration with a $Force = m*9.8 m/s^2$. It shows up as your weight on the readout.

Even though you aren't moving, you are still being subjected to a gravitational acceleration.

Gravity wants to accelerate you at $9.8~\mathrm{m/s^2}$ downward when you are standing on a scale. The scale, which is on the floor, which is on the Earth, wants to resist your downward acceleration. So, the scale must resist that acceleration with a $F = m*9.8~\mathrm{m/s^2}$. It shows up as your weight on the readout.

Even though you aren't moving, you are still being subjected to a gravitational acceleration.

"Weight" is a word that describes one object's resistance to another object's motion. Gravity wants to accelerate you at $9.8 m/s^2$ downward when you are standing on a scale. The scale, which is on the floor, which is on the Earth, wants to resist your downward acceleration. So, the scale must resist that acceleration with a $Force = m*9.8 m/s^2$. It shows up as your weight on the readout.

Even though you aren't moving, you are still being subjected to a gravitational acceleration.

Gravity wants to accelerate you at $9.8 m/s^2$ downward when you are standing on a scale. The scale, which is on the floor, which is on the Earth, wants to resist your downward acceleration. So, the scale must resist that acceleration with a $Force = m*9.8 m/s^2$. It shows up as your weight on the readout.

Even though you aren't moving, you are still being subjected to a gravitational acceleration.