DD:5 And the Fat Avatar

Bridget Jones’s Update of Day 5: BMI: 25. 25.3(-0.2) back to Day 4 BMI! Activity Level: 17F here in Boston. Housebound chores, and very brief errands.  Meditation: Still not in yet. Oy. Brief Observations: Felt warm most of the day and totally sacked out at 9pm. Possible snoring, but Husband will not confirm. Taking Male Fifth. Sigh.

Knowing I was undertaking the Clean Detox for the birthday I was gifted with a Wii Fit Plus and the EA Sports Active. As I’ve blogged before part of the Detox is to sweat. Sweat out toxins, and if I can lose a few lbs. I’ll be A-OK with that.

I plan review the Wii Fit Plus and the EA Sports Active for y’all in another installation of TheLiquidBetsy.

Today I want to talk avatar.

Fat Avatars more specifically.

An Avatar, for those without children, don’t “do” computers, never wandered into a gaming convention or been living under the proverbial rock (folks, there’s even a movie,) is a representation of person in a virtual space. These can be fancifal or realistic.

Both Wii Fit Plus and EA Sports Active allow you to create your avatar. Both are very customizable, you can do skin & hair, height, clothes, glasses or no glasses, and so on. And you can do “size,” e.g. are you a skinny bitch or zaftig nation?

For the Wii, now mind you this was right after my birthday, it does the size automatically, based on your height and weight.

And I was the fat avatar.

Not really fat, fat, but more the chunky butt-type variety sub-species. Now, studies prove that women then to think of themselves as bigger than they are. I, on the other hand, have been deluding myself into thinking I’m still the size 4, 24 year old. This was, ( how do they say in France?) un brutal réveil.

I had let myself go.

EA Sports Active lets you pick the size. So I’m glad I had done the Wii Fit Plus first, otherwise I’d still pick Miss Skinnybitch. The funny thing is I had my son pick it this time. I almost got the “healthy but not super skinny” but he picked the larger (not the biggest thank gawd ) because Mom “you’re bigger right here (nudge, nudge) you know, in the hip.” The husband almost snorted what-ever-the-hell he was drinking at the time. I couldn’t and wasn’t upset. He’s six. ) out of the mouths of babes.

So the brutal honest truth was there, on the TV: The Fat Avatar.

Fat Avatar you’re going down, and tell Skinnybitch she’s next.

2 Responses to “DD:5 And the Fat Avatar”

1. Happy says:

   January 31, 2010 at 4:02 AM

   great post, Betsy-
2. Bethan says:

   February 2, 2010 at 1:17 AM

   LOL. Love it. Know exactly what you are talking about on Wii fit.