you can't blame a piece of plastic for YOUR OWN problems. you can elect to not view your weight if you don't want to be a slave to the numbers. stop acting like the truth is such a horrible thing. maybe you do need to be aware that you're binge eating or whatever come period time. it's not that horrible a thing to know.

this is the same as parents blaming video games on their childs' horrible behaviour. it's not the game, it's YOU!!!

Oh man! This makes me so sad! I love using my niece's and friends Wiis and I couldn't wait to get one myself and the Wii Fit seems like such a good way to have fun and burn a few extra calories! But... as a recovering disordered eater, I struggle to NOT weigh myself everyday and to take the perfectly natural fluctuations in my weight with a grain of salt. I feel like being "shamed" into explaining why my weight fluctuated, esepcecially without an option for "I'm bloated from pms and/or my period you nosy stupid machine!" would be bad for me. Hmmm... maybe I'll just turn around when I first step on so I don't see it and have someone else fill in the info for me. Just like the nice nurses did when I was going to the doctor right after being diagnosed with the disorder. OR perhaps I could look at it as a way to take the power back and work on my inner strength by actively choosing to REFUSE to let it get to me. OR I might just wait on the Wii fit and keep playing the FUN Wii games like tennis and bowling and boxing and see if the Wii fit changes it's tune on future versions. I hope it does.

you don't have to see your weight on the wii fit. you can elect to skip it.

Oh, and to Milo's Mom- I agree that sometimes the truth should be veiwed as just the truth. And yes, sometimes, if your weight is a problem, you have to take responnsibility for it. But this is a VIDEO game. IT supposed to make fitness "fun". And I just think thatforcing someone to deal with weight issues when maybe they already have a lot of weight issues is not right. And perhaps in this society that we live in that BREEDS disordered eating and body image problems galore, maybe it's not the best idea. Maybe at the very least it should have an option to turn the weight part off and just focus on other aspects of fitness? That's all we're saying. It's easy to say that we should all get over ourselves, but not so easy to do when you are in the throws of an eating disorder, or even in the process of recovering. Or if you are an impressionable child or teenager. And what if you need to gain weight? Is there an option when you gain weight that you needed to that says "I gained weight because I ate healthy foods and stopped counting every calorie that went into my mouth and stopped excessively exercising? I doubt it. But here's the thing about games and charts and BMIs and all that stuff. According to any "typical" height weight chart, a woman "should be" about 100 pounds - give or take 5 in either direction at 5 feet tall. And then be about 5 pounds more for each inch after that. So, when I was 19 and 5'2" tall, I "should have" weighed 110 pounds according to a chart I found in a "fitness" book. So, I dieted down to that. I stopped having my period. I had trainers at the gym telling me to go home already, my hair was brittle and dry, and yet.... I was afraid to gain weight again. When I did I felt like a failure and then became bulimic. That stayed with me through most of my adult life. I am currently 5'3" and about 133 pounds. I wear anywhere from a size 2 to a 6 depending on the brand. I am and always have been very dense with a lot of muscle. Nobody thinks that I weigh what I do, they all are surprised that I weigh over 120. I am not over weight, but- the Wii fit might say that I am because I am at the higher end of the BMI charts "Healthy" range. Sure I still fall into the healthy range but I am in the higher end of it. Apparently,from what I read about that 10 year old girl that Weet mentioned in the post, she sounds exactly like me at 10. I too was a gymnast, I too was "solid" but was not by any means "fat" so I feel for that little girl. And if you read the article the most distrubing thing were the comments on the article! People's perceptions without even seeing a picture of this girl were that she is a fat, lazy cheeto scarfing slob of a kid because a video game said that she was fat based on BMI! AND if you plug her stats into a BMI claculator it doesn't say she is overweight so... I don't even know what the hell the Wii was basing that on. Could be a glich I suppose. But yes, the comments were beyond cruel and judgemental. THIS is the society we live in. Where a video game told a kid that the kid was fat and the idiots of the world believed IT with no firther eveidence! Also, the video game doesn't sound like it's just stating a fact- You have gained a couple pounds. It seems to really want to make you feel bad about it. And that is NOT healthy. I'm sorry, but shaming people to try to change their ways is not the way to go about it. That's the biggest problem I have with it. That it "demands" a reason and makes you feel like crap about it.

Just saw Janice's comment. So GOOD! If you can elect to skip it then I don't see as much of a problem with it. That's good to know. Sorry for the long posts.

i think the easy solution here is for you to actually TRY the game. i have it and LOVE it!
you really can't go by somebody elses review... this product IS fun! it got me to run around which i NEVER do! if you want to take it too seriously, that's fine too. but you're playing a game. it's important to remember that.

the wii fit comes out tomorrow... i'm sure you'll be able to read way more reviews then. not a review based off of somebody elses review (which honestly, just sounds like the dumbest thing in the world, there's a reason why hearsay isn't allowed in courts, should be the same way for reviews.

milo's mom--what, do you own Nintendo stock, or something?

My objection to this game relates to this:
"Wii Fit offers no true fat measurement, little info about weight fluctuation (it’s there, buried under demanding weight-spike questions), and no smart recommendations based on the data it saves. If you know what you’re doing—been through the gym circuit, have a grasp on yoga, know that a scale is hardly indicative of true fitness—then Wii Fit is a solid tool to fill the gaps in your schedule and keep you active when you’re at home."

"If you know what you’re doing—" Well, I don't. I was hoping that this would be a beginner-friendly, fun, and private way to shape myself up a bit before joining a gym or signing up for yoga classes. But it sounds more the opposite of that. Also--if it judges your performance chiefly by balance, odds are it won't work for me. I have inner ear issues and joint issues which mess me up when it comes to holding a position for very long.

Spouse and I are getting a Wii sometime in the near future, but I doubt if I will be coughing up an additional $164 dollars for this game and the required additional equipment.

I would cry if I played this. I'm pregnant so I have to gain weight. And I'm hormonal so I'd probably throw the damn thing out the window if it told me I was fat.

this game is soooooooooooooooooo fun. the reviewer is dumb thinking this game is dumb. everybody should buy this

I thought that it was surprisingly fun. Being weighted is just part of starting any regular fitness routine. Annoyingly so. Part of accepting your body is understanding your size. Hiding your head in the sand about your weight is silly and not body positive.

This is a game which is aimed at getting people a little more active while zoning out at the boob-tube. It isn't going to work for everybody. It isn't going to be helpful for everybody. It is however a fun, and positive atempt to bit a little fitness and light heartedness to our living rooms. If you don't want to be weighted, skip it. If you can't balance this isn't the game for you.

Try reading this review in the voice. I think this sums the game up nicely.