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When weighing in, the perky motivating voice keeps chirping "That's obese!" every time I get on the scale. I *hate* that voice saying that every time! In addition, my Wii avatar is porked up to look as fat as I'm supposed to be. Since I carry my weight differently, my avatar actually looks bigger than I do in the mirror.
Worse? My darling daughter Sparkle, with her echolalia, has picked up on that delightful phrase and repeats it. Although it is *almost* cute when she weighs in at "normal" and chirps "That's obese - but where's my tummy?" as her avatar does *not* pork up. I tell her that her weight is just fine, so "Sister Sparkle" won't have a big tummy, because Sparkle doesn't, either.
I have figured out that about 6 pounds goes into each BMI point at my height and build. I need to lose about 12 pounds to get to "overweight." I'm not sure what it will chirp then. I'm sure it will still be in that mocking, laughing voice.
Worse? My darling daughter Sparkle, with her echolalia, has picked up on that delightful phrase and repeats it. Although it is *almost* cute when she weighs in at "normal" and chirps "That's obese - but where's my tummy?" as her avatar does *not* pork up. I tell her that her weight is just fine, so "Sister Sparkle" won't have a big tummy, because Sparkle doesn't, either.
I have figured out that about 6 pounds goes into each BMI point at my height and build. I need to lose about 12 pounds to get to "overweight." I'm not sure what it will chirp then. I'm sure it will still be in that mocking, laughing voice.
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Date: 2009-01-29 09:46 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2009-01-29 11:33 pm (UTC)It would motivate me to step right on the damn Wii. UGH.
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Date: 2009-01-30 02:13 am (UTC)Note: before I got pregnant, I was ca. 175lbs and 5'6" -- therefore, somewhat obese by BMI standards.
My Mii in WiiFit? Is spherical. Sigh.
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Date: 2009-01-30 11:03 am (UTC)The game does have a lot to reccomend it, but still, that's -so- not motivating.
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Date: 2009-01-30 09:56 pm (UTC)Yeah, my avatar is all tummy, with no compensating voluptuous curves like I have in real life.
I *am* girlier than a beach ball!
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Date: 2009-01-30 04:00 pm (UTC)And I've met you. You are NOT obese, and even if you were, you wouldn't be deserving of a chirpy bird saying "Obese" in quite that tone of voice. Demotivation +10.
Re: Echolalia
Date: 2009-01-30 10:06 pm (UTC)When I first got an endocrinologist, I was able to drop down to about 180 at one point. My doctor got all excited, and pulled out the height/weight chart.
"Oh, no," I told him. "I hate that thing!"
"But WAIT!" the doctor said, all excited. "Let me SHOW you! You've gone from grossly obese to just obese! This is GREAT!"
I had to laugh; he was sooooo excited for me. A diabetic patient actually improving. He was doing a happy dance for me, which was totally surprising because he'd always been so dour before.
And if I get to 175, then I shall merely be "overweight." If I get to 150, my weight-induced diabetes will be controlled by eating and exercise alone, without shots or oral medication. This is, in fact, my goal. That, and never hearing that bleeping little voice, mocking, mocking, mocking me.
Re: Echolalia
Date: 2009-01-31 03:18 pm (UTC)Not to mention underweight is far more dangerous, in terms of bad health outcomes and increased risk of death, than anything but 'OMG I cannot walk' levels of obesity.
Re: Echolalia
Date: 2009-01-31 05:41 pm (UTC)Re: Echolalia
Date: 2009-01-31 06:21 pm (UTC)AND that the statistics everyone cites with the big terror-scare thing involve, basically, percentages of the US population who are "fatter than me" ...
I find it not at all hard to imagine that, say, 40% of the US can be "fatter than me" and still most of them NOT be unhealthy.
The single greatest predictive factor about whether any given person is going to end up being obese or not has, believe it or not, nothing to do with diet or exercise. It has to do with heredity. If you have pudgy people in your family, you're much more likely to become pudgy. This is shown over and over, and yet the wash of Scare Tactics and FAT IS IMMORAL news stories do not stop. Even when the Amish study came back (a group known, as a whole, for eating fatty 'unhealthy' food and getting lots of healthy exercise) and showed that the only factor that had any statistical relationship to their weight was THEIR FAMILY'S WEIGHTS, the press releases pulled one tiny 20% correlation out and publicised that all over the news.
The other interesting thing, if you actually look at studies (and not just newspapers), is that there is increasing evidence that the 'risk factors' we've been told to minimize to 'avoid dying of a heart attack' (lower our weight and our cholesterol, etc) actually have very little relationship to getting, or dying from, a heart attack ...
See also the blog Junkfood Science, if you want more info.
Re: Echolalia
Date: 2009-02-01 05:04 pm (UTC)no subject
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