Fat Chicks Rule

Fit to be square or Deus ex machina

While you wouldn't call me a hardcore gamer, being in the nerd crowd, I love to game.  Both videos, RPG's and board games.  i also like low impact exercise like walking, biking, yoga and swimming.  So you would think I like to combine the two and buy a Wii Fit

Hell no.  There are many reasons why I would never buy one.

1.  It's bias against fat people.  Wii fit's is geared to lose weight.  It is keeps track of your BMI as part of the program.  And oh are the "obesity experts" toting it. (check out Judith's comments on African-Americans, they are a hoot.)

2. It's sexist.  Wii Fit is geared for women.  Sure there is a token guy on the website but Nintendo is gearing them to women who they feel don't buy Wii's. In the end they don't care if you lose weight, gain weight, end up with an eating disorder or it ends up sitting in your closet, as long as they have your money. 

3.  It encourages people to stay indoors and play videogames when they could be doing a fun nature walk that wastes no electricity.

4. It's a fad, it won't last and in 6 months when people have put their units in the closet because it is boring and/or they haven't lost any weight, I will still be walking, no matter if I've gained or lost.  Remember Curves? The one by my house is gone. 

So save your money, this is just another wasteful home gym. 

Another edition of the good, the bad and the ugly.

The good

Beautiful Whitney Thompson is AMERICA'S NEXT TOP MODEL! While Whitney is lovely, she is far from "plus size" but she is much more closer than average women's weight compared to the average model. One day we will have beauty pageants and competitions with people of all shapes and sizes. So with women like Whitney winning with talent and merit, we are well on our way.

A new band is forming in the UK, for size 16 and above. Singer grabs place in girl band determined to keep it real

The Bad
‘Too fat’ teen model spotlights fashion’s dark side The model's size? 5'9 and 130 pounds. Kudos to Alexandra Michael for speaking out.

The Ugly

The UK is treating to catch up with the US in the "obesity epidemic" hysteria. Apparently obesity is the cause of every single problem on the planet. I tried of hearing this. It simply isn't true. I won't allowed to be the scapegoat for society ills. There is no proof that fat people eat more or consumer more oil or buy more hummers than thin people. By their logic if I really was eating fast food all the time. I be consuming a larger amount of calories, from less food. You want to be anecdotal, how about the cause of society ills are skinny yuppie women driving their gas guzzling SUV's to the gym to waste electricity using the treadmill and stair-master.

Diets: Just say no

Last week was International No Diet Day.   So just a quick rehash of my dieting life: 17 years of dieting left me 70 lbs heavier, disordered eating, low self esteem, heart palpitations, immunity issues and odd reactions to certain foods.  Five years since I kicked the dieting habit permanently has given me increased self-esteem, a better relationship with food, and movement not based on whether I ate "well" that day.

Catch a rant about the dangers of diets in my current IGIGI column.

The diet industry makes $55 BILLION a year off of all people no matter what their size.  They'll be happy to have you starve, give you dangerous pills and surgeries all to increase their profit. They don’t give a shit about your health. All they want is your money.

All they have to show for it is disordered eating, a high failure rate and health problems due to weight cycling. 

Give up dieting, save your money and time, embrace a healthy lifestyle that doesn't have it's basis on the number on the scale.

There won't be a regular blog post today because I'm heading out of town. However a study recently came out that you can't be fit and fat.  I'm going to send you over the The F-Word which follows the money trail for this study (let's just say some of the researchers might be working for certain companies who might have like to keep obesity "epidemic" as is)