Wii Fit

I received a Wii Fit for Christmas.

For those who don't know, this is a "game" with a balance board. You have to move around to play this. The balance board has a set of scales that measures how your weight shifts around as you play various games.

My favorite games are the balance games and aerobics.

In balance games, you have to do things like hit a soccer ball with your head, maneuver on skis, ride a bubble down a river without popping the bubble or maneuver balls into a hole.

Aerobics have a lot of step work. Up and down and side to side. I have nearly fallen several times. There is also a boxing routine that I enjoy and a hula hoop thing.

I like the yoga items, too. My least favorite are the strength training and those are probably the ones I need the most. All in good time, I tell myself.

So far I have only missed three days on the Wii since the day after Christmas. And I have done 30 minutes every day.

My other near-daily exercising consists of using a Dennis Austin tape, riding a stationary recumbent bike, walking on a treadmill, and Tai Chi. I also have one of those big balls.

You'd think with all that I would not be overweight, but there you go. I am.

I have lost four whole pounds. I was hoping it would all fall off overnight but apparently that is not the way it works.

Sigh.