Well, I have officially re-activated my Weight Watchers Online membership. I was forced to weigh and measure myself and after I finished crying, I put the information into the WW online.
I weigh myself on my Wii balance board. Mainly because I find it only slightly less upsetting to see my weight in kilograms, as opposed to pounds. I bought the Wii specifically for the Wii Fit and balance board attachment. It was step one in my “Plan to get into shape” that started… um… last year. :-S It’s been a slow start to this project. Anyway, I used it religiously for about a month and actually lost 10lbs! Somehow, though, I lost interest and it has sat, collecting dust, ever since.
I think part of it might have to do with the little voice that narrates the Wii Fit. When I first step on the balance board, the little voice says “Oooh” in a completely snide way! That one little syllable actually conveys the Wii’s complete disgust in me – as if it’s saying “Oooh. You weigh a LOT more than I thought!” I don’t know if that little seed of disgust from an inanimate machine is supposed to spur me on to better performances or what, but I can tell you, it makes me want to take a baseball bat to the thing every time I hear it! But the BEST is when I get the results of my “body scan” – my little Mii character stands beside a sliding scale which shows “Underweight” at the bottom, followed in the middle by “Normal”, “Overweight” and “Obese”. The slider on the scale slides on up as my Mii gets fatter, then does a little jump of surprise as the slider hits “Obese” and it TELLS me, with great disappointment, “Oooh. That’s obese.” Lovely. Because being called a fat cow and essentially mocked by a computer is a GREAT way to motivate my ass into exercising! Yeesh.
I also found that the trainers on the Wii Fit were quite chatty. I don’t care to hear a machine’s assessment of my stretching – I just want to bloody DO it and get it the hell out of the way! So, on the recommendation of a friend, I eschewed the Wii Fit, went out and bought Wii Active. It’s essentially a workout program, just on the Wii (whatever happened to the workout programs that used to be on TV? Why did they suddenly go away? It used to be that most of the early morning programming used to be exercise or yoga shows, news or bars & tone. But then, that was way back when the TV used to go OFF. Remember that? Yes, kiddies, there used to be a time of the night when there literally was NOTHING on TV). It comes with a rubber band for “resistance” exercises and a pulse sensor that straps to your thigh. Cuz… having a weight attached to your thigh won’t get in the way of your exercising, not at all! Pfft.
Anyway, I have only used the Wii Active once. Mainly because it damn near killed me! Maybe 1/3 of the exercises were appropriate for someone of my beginning level. The other 2/3 were AWFUL. I swear, my heart nearly exploded! There needs to be some kind of “I’m a fatty, I’m not used to physical activity of ANY sort”, kind of training-wheels exercise program. Maybe once I’ve mastered the easy bit and have eased myself into the idea of exercise, THEN I can move on and up and try the scary Wii Active again. :-S
I honestly think that’s 1/2 my problem – the workouts are too damn hard! Not in a “challenging” kind of a way, though. In a “I can’t do this, why bother” kind of a way. Seriously, people. Probably 90% of the people who bought the damn Wii Active are fatties like me! We need INTRODUCTORY fitness! Arg. I guess I’m going to have to go back to the Wii Fit and hula hoop myself into losing enough weight that I can even contemplate doing a push up, let alone a plank!
