Skeptical

My inlaws have a Wii and a Wii Fit. I hate how the thing makes you weigh everyday because it will tell me that I've gained 3 pounds in one day. Then it will ask me what the reason for my weight gain is. OK. Well, I didn't eat enough to gain weight. Nor did I eat anything that would make me hold 3 pounds of water. So, the only reason I can think of is that you're a piece of junk. But, you don't give me that option. So, I say, "I don't know." Then it says, "Let's review a little about how nutrition works," or some nonsense like that. I already know how nutrition works. I know more about nutrition and exercise than most people. I have gained and lost hundreds of pounds. I've read lots of articles and I even went through a home course to be a trainer. So, don't tell me that you're going to teach me something I don't already know. I know that I don't know everything, but I'm sure that Nintendo didn't program their Wii Fit to contain more information than my brain already has.

What? You think that just because I'm very overweight that I can't know much about being healthy? Bah. Just because you have knowledge doesn't mean you always use it. I know I shouldn't eat certain foods, but I'm human and I fail a lot. Otherwise, I wouldn't been in this predicament.

Well, I've been doing very well lately. It's pretty much come down to my eating healthy and losing weight or continue to have problems with my RA and gain some other problems that I don't have and don't want. I realized the other week that my mama was my age when she developed diabetes. I want absolutely nothing to do with that. I actually get frustrated with people who just automatically thought that I would get gestational diabetes because I was pregnant and overweight. I didn't get it. What I ended up with Nathan was gestational hypertension. High blood pressure runs rampant in my family. I don't want that. Considering my BP was always on the low side of normal, I'm really surprised that it ran so much higher in both my pregnancies.

So, coming back to my original thoughts, my scale is packed away in some box somewhere in our storage unit. If I want to know if I've lost weight, I have to use the Wii Fit. I weighed a few days after I made my changes to my eating habits and it said I lost 7 pounds. My clothes are much looser on me and even my husband has commented (without my mentioning it) that I have lost inches. So then, I weighed again last week and it said I gained 2 pounds. Whatever. Now, I'm scared to weigh. I don't want it to say that I've gained again. PITA. I hate the thing. If I could find my measuring tape, I would just go by inches.

I have a long way to go. I hate BMI, too. You can't tell me that when I worked with my old trainer and had lost all that weight and weighed 189 pounds that I was obese. I told him that I wanted to lose 50 more pounds and he laughed at me. He said there was no way I could lose that much. Maybe 20 pounds. BMI is not a one size fits all. There are some people with more lean body mass than others. I've always been strong. So, getting to 134 pounds for me is laughable. No BMI. You're BS. I'm thinking if I get down to 170, I'm doing good. I probably won't have the muscle I had in '03, but I'll be close enough.

Wish me luck. I really want to weigh. I expect that I've lost at least 5 more pounds, but the Wii Fit probably will say I've gained 5. I'll just wait until we unpack and use my scale.