Wii Fit BMI Argh
Jan. 31st, 2010 10:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ailbheWe set the kids up on the shiny new Wii Fit today and I was really NOT HAPPY with them measuring the kids' BMI and labelling them "at risk of overweight" and asking them to set weight-loss goals.
I cannot articulate how annoyed I was, in fact.
But the good news is that I didn't articulate how annoyed I was, particularly in front of the children. I ignored it.
I sincerely hope that the children and I gain enough weight in the next 6 months to mess with that blasted calorie-counting pig's head but good.
On the other hand, both children find the balance board easier to operate than the remote controls.
I cannot articulate how annoyed I was, in fact.
But the good news is that I didn't articulate how annoyed I was, particularly in front of the children. I ignored it.
I sincerely hope that the children and I gain enough weight in the next 6 months to mess with that blasted calorie-counting pig's head but good.
On the other hand, both children find the balance board easier to operate than the remote controls.
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Date: 2010-01-31 11:16 pm (UTC)It said I was "ideal" and suggested I set a weight-loss goal of 2 BMI points.
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Date: 2010-01-31 11:18 pm (UTC)And you were suggested a weightloss goal?
I'd probably get a "does not compute" or a "would the second person please get off the board" on mine.
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Date: 2010-01-31 11:20 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2010-02-01 05:04 pm (UTC)...
Wow.
There isn't enough swearing in the world.
Emer is at the lower limit for making it work, weightwise, and needs to really throw herself into the moves to get any result.
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Date: 2010-02-01 05:16 pm (UTC)You can hack the hardware to fake it so you can use it even if you're over the weight limit -- basically putting foam between the bits it uses to sense weight so it thinks you weight less than you do -- if you really want to play it, but I was ticked enough about that aspect that I didn't want to bother. (It's academic now, as we gave our Wii away over Christmas, but still.)
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Date: 2010-01-31 11:22 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-01-31 11:51 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-02-01 04:02 pm (UTC)