The wages of Thanksgiving

[trinityvixen]

In a truly bizarre sort of logic, the Wii tells me (via Wii Fit), that I've dropped 14 years in "physical age" despite the fact that the modest weight I've lost since I started exercising all came back over the holiday. I have really good balance, I suppose.

Comments

[chuckro]

...so your Wii thinks that you're in your earaly teens? Or it thought you were nearly 40 before?

[trinityvixen]

It thinks I'm 25. Last time, it said I was 39. What I've learned is that weight is irrelevant. Being able to stand really still is everything.

[chuckro]

I'm not sure I realized that maturity was so easily measured by your ability to stand still.

[trinityvixen]

I improved by about 40% (however they measure that) on each of the two balance tests, one of which was a test to see if I could stand as still as possible. (The other is a shifting balance test, that sees if you can shift your weight onto either foot just so much and hold it there for three seconds at a time.) I don't get it.

[sols_light]

The Wiifit age is a measure of how well you do those tests for your actual age and BMI. I always get a bad result if I get given one test and get a good result if I get others. So it's rather random.