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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.

Date: 2009-01-29 09:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] geojlc.livejournal.com
I get that too and also find it really annoying... Sorry Sparkle's also copying it. Hopefully she only uses it in the game...

Date: 2009-01-29 10:08 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wyld-dandelyon.livejournal.com
I know it's intended to be a motivator, but one of my sisters says she can't stand her "fat" wii-fit icon, and won't do the exercises as a result. There should be a way to reset those things!!!

Date: 2009-01-30 01:42 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] judifilksign.livejournal.com
I have been tempted to make myself "grow" a foot, so the BMI cheats and is less awful.

Date: 2009-01-29 11:33 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dormouse-in-tea.livejournal.com
how lovely and. . . motivating.

It would motivate me to step right on the damn Wii. UGH.

Date: 2009-01-30 02:13 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] almeda.livejournal.com
The game is (a) really wedded to BMI, and (b) utterly BELIEVES that BMI is utterly, utterly true and awesome.

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.

Date: 2009-01-30 11:03 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] mneme
Ick. You're not obese. You're voluptuous.

The game does have a lot to reccomend it, but still, that's -so- not motivating.

Date: 2009-01-30 09:56 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] judifilksign.livejournal.com
Thank you for the compliment!
Yeah, my avatar is all tummy, with no compensating voluptuous curves like I have in real life.

I *am* girlier than a beach ball!

Echolalia

Date: 2009-01-30 04:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] u-must-b-joking.livejournal.com
Indeed. Keith, who's an aspie, still experiences 'the evening silly period'. It occurs many nights after dinner, until about 9 pm. During that time his echolalia may get very bad and he may giggle uncontrollably and fidget in a most entertaining fashion. I told him when he was about 9 that he had echolalia and then I was truly done for; every evening he'd wander around and say, "Echolalia? Echolalia?" until I was either hooting with laughter or tempted to strangle him.

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)
From: [identity profile] judifilksign.livejournal.com
Oh, I *am* technically obese, just at the beginning of that category, rather than at the grossly or morbidly end of the scale. I am also fortunate enough to carry my weight evenly, gaining on my toes, arms and legs as well as in my tummy, which makes me look proportional to myself.

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)
From: [identity profile] almeda.livejournal.com
I'd take BMI more seriously if they hadn't been progressively shifting the endpoints of the bands (i.e. what it takes to be 'overweight,' 'obese,' etc) LIGHTER over the last five years.

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)
From: [identity profile] judifilksign.livejournal.com
To hear the news, our nation has gotten progressively fatter, with more people obese than ever before. Is this really because the nation is that much fatter, or are these results due to the shift in weight BMI scales? What do you think?

Re: Echolalia

Date: 2009-01-31 06:21 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] almeda.livejournal.com
Given that (a) my pre-preg BMI was roughly 28.5, (b) I had relatively little body fat then except in my boobs and a thin skim of subcutaneous, and (c) I think most people looking at me [and my doctors!] would agree that I was not in fact any kind of an unhealthy weight ...

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)
From: [identity profile] judifilksign.livejournal.com
I have just spent an hour or so browsing that fascinating site. Thanks for the link!

Date: 2009-02-05 01:13 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ladymondegreen.livejournal.com
The one that gets to me is on the yoga exercises when you're standing on one leg with your leg pulled up and it says "you're a little shaky", which, duh!

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