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Oh I know…..
Wii Fit….yeah right. Some dang kids game is gonna shape my fanny into the firm and sleek youthfulness of my yesteryears??
Well….I bought it. Skeptically.

My teenage son along with me….we tracked a Wii Fit down at the mall at GameStop after trying three other stores including Best Buy and Circuit City. I lost weight just walking around trying to find this thing! Everyone must be buying one!

But….I have to tell you…..TOTAL fun!! I can see why stores are sold out.
If this is what I have to do to get in shape….I am SO there.

Now I will tell you….when you initally set yourself up in Wii Fit….it weighs you, computes you BMI….tests your balance and applies a “real” age to you. OMG - my REAL age was 64???????????? I’m 42!!! I almost needed a smack upside the head and CPR after seeing that on the screen. Dear God Woman! What have you done to yourself?? Too many late nights with my LOVER (aka: my laptop!)?? Too many late nights with said LOVER and a huge bag of M&Ms to keep me awake, alert and able to type. Not to mention the fact that I needed that carb and seretonin surge to think about what I was going to write about.

Ladies let me tell you right now…internet success comes at a price. How much of a price?? Hmmmm…lower back pain from too much sitting…..loss of shoulder and upper arm strength and mobility from sitting at the computer all the time in a hunched over position. And weight…..oh hell yes…..flabby, disgusting….blubber.
I have it…right here….to remind me….every day….that I ate one too many M&Ms at 2am. Just had to keep working….had to stay up and get that last post written, that article done….make those website changes….

But now….I look tired, fat and old. Turn OFF your webcam Kelly….you’re scaring people. Seriously….when was the last time I plucked my eyebrows?? Honestly….my life has gotten that cramped with work, kids and laundry! Ugh! YOU know what I’m talking about, don’t you? Yes…YOU over there with your hand in the bag of crunchy salties or yummy sweeties! Step away from the junk food…and step away from your computer…..I promise you…..you’ll be a hunchback, flabby, crusty, funky, shapeless blob if you let it rule your life. I AM the poster child for Computer Blobs right now…..so I know.

So….this is where Wii Fit (and the South Beach Diet) are going to transform me. TRANSFORM ME YA HEAR!!
Or at least…this is my affirmation right now…at 2am…just me and my lover (laptop). I’m M&M-less. I am both sad and excited. I miss my M&Ms and it’s only been three days without them. I bet they miss me too.

But now…back to the Wii Fit. MY ‘real’ age now set at 64 - I must go through daily yoga poses, aerobics, strength exercises….and more to get my ‘real’ age down to my REAL age. As you work through your daily exercises (and you choose what you want to do!!) - you’re rewarded with piggy bank points. These points help you unlock new yoga poses and other exercises.

You can walk a tight rope, or hola hoop or ski jump…..and it’s fun!

I love the yoga. And I can see where it really challenges your body. I was like a wet noodle the first day. But now…my third day into it - I am doing the warrior pose, the tree…I am balanced….I am relaxing….focusing on my breathing. I’ve picked a male trainer….and I’ve named him Laptop. I have now named my laptop “Fat Pusher”. My butt came up with that name…not me.

Anyway…..
Wii Fit is always tracking your progress…keeps it on a calendar. Wii Fit tracks your weight as well. You’re able to set an initial goal…..say…you set it to lose 20 pounds over 3 months….Wii Fit knows this because you’ve input that info into your profile that you created. So each day you step onto your Wii Fit board to do your exercises…Wii is encouraging you and recording what you do.

You start to feel like you don’t want to let Wii down. I need that kind of push.

So…here I am heading into day four of “Me and Wii”.

Of course I could join a REAL yoga class…of course I could go to the track and run around it….for like…2 minutes…
But this is something I can do right here at home (and I live way out….not like there is a CURVES up the block…there isn’t a Curves for at least 10 miles…)

I do go for walks….
And I have been getting back into my treadmill routine.
But Wii Fit will help me with strength training….rebuilding posture….
I REALLY don’t want to be a hunchback by 45 years of age!!

So good bye M&Ms. Good bye Lover…..I mean Fat Pusher. I must break free of you….or at least a little “free-er”.

My Trainer waits for me tomorrow….and he will ask me to follow along with him. And I will. My sides will stretch through the half moon pose…..and visions of M&Ms will disappear. Hopefully…..this old lady butt will disappear as well! Along with a few years off my ‘real’ age…..
DANG!! 64???!!

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