Friday night I took the Wii Fit Body Test. It told me I was fat and old. It was 11:30 p.m. and I had eaten a handful of potato chips moments before taking the test. And I was wearing jeans. That can’t be the best way to start a test do determine your fitness level. But that’s how I started and the results were a little humbling.
Being mocked by a little fat animated version of myself didn’t help either. Do they really need to morph your Mii body so you look like your height/weight combination suggests? I just want to punt that little sausage version of me when she waddle-runs across the screen.
Screw you Wii Fit and your little fat avatar.
Anyway. I took the test. Not only did it tell me that my BMI puts me at a borderline obese level but it also suggested that my Wii Fit age is 44.
Forty-four?
That’s 12 years older than my actual age.
Screw you Wii Fit and your little fat aging avatar.
So that sucked. But I took the Body Test again today and while my BMI hasn’t changed dramatically in two days—what can I say, I like cheese—my Wii Fit Age has. I went from 44 at 11:36 on a Friday night to a youthful 29 this afternoon.
That’s right. Twenty-nine.
Which is younger than my actual age by three glorious years.
Take that you little fat avatar.
Holly,
LOL! Yeah, I don’t always like my Wii Fit age, either. It’s usually older than I chronologically am (though in my head, I’m in my early 30s).
-Mike
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I hate my Wii Fit avatar. It does look like a sausage version of me. And the Wii is evil. It will cheerily tell my husband “That’s normal” when he steps on there but it groans and scowls at me and screams “That’s OBESE!!!” when I get into position. Thanks Wii Fit, like I wasn’t feeling shitty about myself enough.
I think we should punt our Wii Fit’s out the window.
P.S. Your new masthead is growing on me. I love the blue, it helps me get past the poor beat up dead bunny.
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Mike—I think they do that intentionally to make us want to work out more.
Vegas Princess—Right! We know we want to look better, they don’t have to rub it in our face. And don’t think of it as a dead bunny, think of it as a much loved, worn down stuffed animal who is missing an eye. That what I think of it as.
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Ain’t it the truth! Worst part was when I was using it daily, my weight kept going up, not down. So in theory, since muscle weighs more than fat, wouldn’t all of us end up obese on the Wii even if we worked out like crazy and turned all our fat to muscle??? If I’m going to be obese no matter what, I’d rather lift a donut(or 3) than weights!
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I’ve never even seen someone using the Wii Fit, so I can’t visualize these avatars; I think I have to do some Googling. But this does sound kind of sadly hilarious. I know I’d have a waddling sausage avatar, too! And I’d bet my age would be somewhere in my 50s, with the way I’ve been going the past few months.
I love the new header! I see it as a cool, used-up toy bunny, too–not a dead one, like that sicko Vegas Princess.
Keeping Wii-ing yourself into fitness, and keep us all updating on the progress of the little sausage.
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The first time I went on the Wii-Fit, I think I was 60 years old.
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My wife’s Wii Fit tried to tell me that I was like… in my fifties. I can control my weight, but you want me to get younger? Get me a DeLorean, some plutonium, a fluffy dog and some Huey Lewis on the cassette player and we’re in business.
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Amyjod—They really need to have some type of measurement process in the game. Even if your weight stays the same your body would be changing since a pound of muscle takes up less space than a pound of fat. But, it is a game and we can’t have it all. We can however have another donut if we please.
ICHD—Sadly hilarious is a perfect way to describe it. You really want to hate it but she just so cute waddling across the screen. Especially when G-tot sees it and yells “Mommy!”. Thanks for the props on the header.
Neil—Today I was 31 and the birds sang out in victory.
7son75—Don’t forget Doc.
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I am SO relieved…felt alone in my Wii angst until I found this board! If I believed everything that annoying animated balance board tells me, I’d be on anti-depressants. The worst part is the ridiculous amount of money you spend to hear it!
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