For Christmas, I received the WII Fit Plus. On the box as big as day, it says weight limit 335 lbs. Ut-0h. So even with me knowing my weight and that it was well over the limit, I still stepped my happy fat self on the scale anyway. And the cut little voice on the system, said “oh!” and then they politely told me to step my big self down! lol. I wasn’t too defeated because I knew that I was having the surgery, but how devastating is that? You get a workout device, unwrap it and can’t use it. Now I know it’s no one else’s fault that we big people get as big as we get, but dag.
So I got on the scale today, 5 days post surgery. Because I wanted to see if I had met the 335 lb limit and if I could start working out yet. I got on my scale and it said 319 and then 324, so I thought for sure my scale was trippin. So I plugged up the WII and set up my profile and all that, and I got to the point where they finally ask you to step on the scale. I did, and guess what? It continued on. The lady with the surprised, “oh!” still spoke, but they asked me more questions and then told me I was obese. They told me that my ideal weight for my height was 132 lbs. I almost fell over!!!! 132??? Naw dude. For real?
Then I got to thinking. What age I must’ve been when I was around 132. I mean it must’ve been middle school or even elementrary. My senior year of high school, I remember doing a weight loss challenge with my family. $20 per person pot. I think there was 5 of us all together. I remember weighing the most out of everyone, and I believe I was 180-190.
I look back at my senior cruise picture and think, “hell yeah!!!! I was hot!” I don’t know, it’s just surprising to me that society has me at 132 where in my culture, we’d be happy being still 50 lbs over that. Who’s right and who’s wrong? Is there really such a thing as big boned? Does that equal the 50 lbs overage? It’s just kinda crazy when you look at where the doctor’s and society has us all lumped up in the anorexic category. Or is it me in my unhealthy frame of mind and thinking???
