My girlfriend has decided she wants Wii Fit (She doesn't know there are two, I'd probably want Plus). There's just one problem. She's a recovering Anorexic. She's made a lot of strides and she wants to make many more, but Wii Fit poses some problems. The biggest one being that, well, it uses a giant scale. And she hasn't weighed herself in years.

So what I need to know is how heavily the weight aspect is featured and displayed. She's fine with BMI and the whole Wii Fit age. So is it just a question of turning around and not looking at the screen at the beginning of a session? She said she'd be fine just turning around (and volume down I guess).

Again, she's taken her disorder head on over the years and is in such a better place than she used to be. She wants to get Wii fit partly because it looks fun, partly because it looks like a good way to stay fit, and partly because she doesn't want a stupid eating disorder to stop her from being able to buy a simple videogame.

She's just worried about getting weighed acting as a trigger.

So... How weighty is it?

I don't remember the first time, but afterwards weighing yourself is optional. You can simply not do it.

oh. That sounds good. But does it always have that original weight displayed? on a profile or somewhere else?

Not at all, at least not from what I remember, it just makes your Mii very thin (or, usually very fat...). She could always cheat and make herself lower, and then it won't even tell her the first time she is underweight or anything...

I am far away from my Wii right now, but perhaps later (in 6 hours or so) I will have the time and take a closer look from her perspective.

It never really shows your weight, only your BMI unless you click some buttons. As for what is always displayed, it just shows a dot representing the first weighing on a scale at 0 in the y axis. Every time you weight yourself, it will show BMI with an option for lg/kg. On the main screen any future measurements will be shown as a plus/minus from your original weight, but it won't display BMI or lb/kg.

The nice thing for people with disorders, is that BMI says underweight, normal, overweight, and obese. If she is underweight, maybe she will be motivated to get into the bottom of the normal range.

Note that you can have as a goal in Wii Fit to gain weight (or remain the same weight).

As to which Wii Fit, definitely go for the Plus. It's just $10 more and, beyond having the entire original Wii Fit in it (games AND exercises), it has 15 extra games, several more strength and yoga exercises, and really most important by far, you can set your own routines (you can't do that with Wii Fit, there are no routines at all in Wii Fit so to move from one exercise to another you have to move between menus, which rather spoils the mood and wastes time when you want to actually do some exercises).

Ah yes and the Plus has multiplayer (by taking turns) for some games.

Her BMI would probably be somewhere in the normal range. Like I said, she's recovering. She's come a long way over the years. Clearly so if she feels prepared to tackle this game (as part of a normal life, not an attempt to lose weight)

So all those charts of progress and stuff wouldn't actually have a weight measurement?

to explain what I'm talking about here is a picture of the main screen

Hey that's good. That hardly even means anything!