Devil Machine

My Wii called me fat.

Part of our Christmas gift to ourselves was a Wii, along with the Wii Fit.  When you first set up the Fit it asks you to go through a test, where you give it information like your birthday and height and the devil machine tells you your BMI and your weight if you want to know.  It also does a balance test and gives you your fit age (kind of like Brain Age for those familiar with the game).

Hubby did the test first and he ended up with a fit age of 54, ironic since his BMI was 22 and he’s in excellent physical condition (not to mention he’s younger than me).  His nose was severely out of joint when the machine told him his fit age was considerably higher than his real age and said that maybe he might want to improve that.

Next up was me.  I made hubby leave the room because I’m all secretive about my numbers like that.  I stepped on the board and went through all the little tests and the guy came up with the graph, which promptly shot to the top and told me I was obese.  Not a big shocker – I’ve seen the size of my badonkadonk.  But then my Mii (your Wii character) plumped up like a balloon and suddenly my onscreen me looked like a pink stay-puffed marshmallow man! *  Now my formerly cute little animated me is all chubtastic.  Bastiges.

The one saving grace of the evening was that my fit age is ten years younger than the hub’s.  He tried to be all poo-faced that I scored a better fit age, but I pointed out that my fat chick totally trumps his early onset geriatricity any day and if anyone gets to sport the poo-face it’s me.

The one thing I don’t like about this (aside from Mii bloat) is that it makes you set a goal.  Hub doesn’t need to lose weight, but it still wanted him to make some kind of goal.  You should have the option to set a goal or not.  I don’t particularly want to be chastised by a video game if I don’t reach my goals; goals that I didn’t want to set in the first place.

All that aside, it’s fun.  We have played some of the balance games and tried the yoga and both are pretty cool.  I have better balance than I thought I did because I did a lot better in the yoga than I expected.   Still, I have a lot more fun with the regular Wii games, but I guess that’s not the point with the Fit.

*A little hint, Nintendo: if you want the chunkalunka’s to continue to play your devil game don’t make them feel shittier by inflating their characters to a size more fit to the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade!