A week ago I bought wii fit. I thought I’d write a few of my thoughts about it. There’s been many reviews and they certainly cover the spectrum of opinion from “rubbish” to “fantastic”.
I am not the sort of person who thinks that Wii Fit will make me thin or healthy, the only Wii game that could lose weight for me would be Wii Lyposuction. The creator of Wii Fit said himself that he didn’t believe that Wii Fit would make anyone fit.
What it is doing for me is motivating me to get healthier, lose weight and get more exercise. When I first registered with Wii Fit my Wii Mii become rather fat and I dicovered that I was obese, not just overweight (as I thought). Since then I have been using Wii Fit regularly for 20-30 mins each morning trying to vary my muscle workouts across the week. I have also watched what I have been eating snack wise and been very aware of the food I have been eating. Today Laura, Elizabeth and I went the swimming baths. Something which I have been meaning to do for a while but never got around to.
What I’m saying is, I could have done any of the exercises that Wii Fit includes without it. You could do any of them without the Wii Board, just look up the videos on the net and you’d get the moves, you just wouldn’t get the feedback on your weight distribution.
Thing is, I didn’t, and without it I wouldn’t. Perhaps I’d go swimming once a week, but even then I’d been meaning to for such a long time. Wii Fit is motivating me to do so. I could get the same from a standard set of scales, but Wii Fit is making it fun (sort of) and easy. That’s what Wii Fit is for and that’s the sort of help it will give. If motivation is the issue the Wii Fit will probably help (it might help if there are other issues, I’m just speaking from my perspective).
So, what has the outcome been so far? Well It’s been a week so it’s not exactly going to be staggering. However I intend to try and write each week about what the changes have been in numerical terms, and possibly if relevant other terms.
I stress that this is not going to be just from doing Wii Fit exercise, as the impact has already taken place on my diet and other things, so this is the result of Wii Fit in a direct and indirect way.
After the first couple of days I really started to feel healthier in myself and more alert and I feel like I have more energy. My initial figures were:
BMI: 31.05
Weight: 15st 0lb
Wii Fit Age: 33
My first target agreed with the Wii Board was to loose 7lbs (half a stone) in a month which I thought would be realistic, I didn’t want to fail at the first hurdle. It also happens that this will take me down into the overweight category rather than the obese, which is a nice reward for my first target. After the first week the figures are as follows:
BMI: 30.50
Weight: 14st 10lb
Wii Fit Age: 38
I will say that the Wii Fit age seems to bounce around a lot depending on the exercise in the morning test so it has been as low as 25. I have also always measured myself at the same time prior to any breakfast or exercise with Wii Fit. This will reduce the variation in the body during the course of the day (which the Wii Fit says can be +/-2lbs). Stay tuned for my future progress.
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