We celebrated the holidays late this year, due to our December travel (I promise I will blog on that later). My MIL gave us a Wii. I was a bit surprised being that we never asked/showed any interest in one. Does she want my unemployed husband to ever go back to work. I envision days filled with him bowling, golfing, playing tennis in the endless time suck of gaming systems.
As many of you know, I sometimes feel that her gifts often have some kind of dig at me as well (remember the lovely napkins from last year "I am the f*!*ing queen). So, I was a little surprised that the next box was a Wiifit. Five months post-baby, was this saying I needed to get in shape. It was a good thing I wasn't having a bad body image day or I may not have responded very graciously. Mr. R says she knows I do work out videos. Hmmm, maybe.
So, we all gathered around the Wiifit to see what our "Wiifit age" was. I should preface this by saying we were all drinking wine. You enter your DOB, height and then do a balance test where you put weight on one side of the body then the other. Mama H- you would be great at this. Mr. R gets up there and he has a fit age of 45. It asked him if he finds himself tripping when he walks down the street. It tells him he is overweight. He is not amused. My MIL tries- her age is 37. I must point out that she drank the least amount of wine. I give it a try- my age was 57. It asked me if I trip walking down the street. I couldn't believe it, 20 years older than my MIL. I tried again the next day and it went down a whopping 51 years old. So, if I wasn't annoyed enough that my MIL spent all of this money on a gaming system we never wanted, I got a fit system that told me I was old and uncoordinated. (It was lucky it didn't call me fat or it would have been thrown out the window. Merry Christmas to me!
This is hilarious...I have 1 question: Does your MIL have 1 of these at home or have access to 1? Practice will GREATLY affect the outcome of these sorts of "tests".
ReplyDeleteIt is hilarious! What a funny gift. It seems that the wiifit overestimates everyone's weight and age. It told my brother he's obese and he's clearly not so don't take it to heart. Focus on the positives - you decreased your age by 6 years in a week. Imagine what you can do in a month?
ReplyDeleteMama LS- My MIL must have secretly opened the box and practiced before giving to us. :) I'm sure it overestimates things b/c otherwise why would you need it if you weren't fat or uncoordinated. However, my age went down overnight- not due to practice- just taking the test without wine. I'm sidelined for a few weeks due to stitches in my leg for a mole that was removed (that turned out to be fine) so I'll report back once I try it again.
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