Astrogirl

I use the hell out of the Wii Fit. I like the exercises (though I’m really tired of the music) and I love having my weight recorded every day.

When it weighs you at a different time than the previous day, it tells you that you should weigh in at the same time every day because your weight can fluctuate up to 2 lbs. during the day. So, it recognizes that you could gain (or lose) 2 lbs. that is not actual loss but simply a water weight change. If you gain more than 2 lbs, you get this dialogue:

This list is a bit too short and does not include things like “I ate too much salt yesterday” or “female related bloating”, which kind of leaves me with no answer but “I don’t know.” Once I picked indigestion because I could not figure out what it meant by that and it had no appropriate answer. I found out then that it thinks that is a polite way of saying “I’m constipated” and recommended more fiber in my diet. Whoops! On top of all that, it *knows* I exercise 6 days a week, so why does it even offer that one?

A few days ago, I registered a 1.5lb gain and it gave me the “Try to think about reasons for your weight gain” business while telling me my weight could randomly fluctuate up to 2lbs. a day. WTH?? So, I said I didn’t know, because I don’t know, and today, it gave me this shit:

Okaaaaay.

Another complaint regarding the weight tracking: There’s no trend line. Why on earth? It has all the information, and for a computer, figuring a trend line is pretty simple math. You have to just imagine the line for yourself because no one at Nintendo thought of this.

I used to record my outside exercise in the Activity Log, but since it *still* tells me that I should do other exercise away from the Wii, I don’t bother. It even asks “refresh my memory, do you do any other exercise?” and tells me about the log when I’ve just added TO the log. It makes the software seem really dumb.

I’m still trying to get a decent picture of the “zen sitting” (Lotus Focus) balance game. Hopefully, I’ll remember during the evening hours when we won’t get so much reflection off the television.

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