Wii Fit update
We've had Wii Fit for just under two weeks, and I still really, really like it. I haven't been working with it every day, but I'm averaging five days a week. When I do fire it up, I do at least 15 minutes (I'm shooting for 30 minutes a day, and some days it just doesn't happen), and some days I do an hour or a little more.
Am I seeing any results? Hard to say, really. It claims I've lost 4 pounds since starting (net--that's not counting the other 4 it claims I gained and then lost during the first week.) At this rate, it'll be a few months before any weight loss will be readily visible, or even affect the fit of my clothes much, so I don't really have much of a measuring stick to judge how accurate the balance board's weight is. I do know it seems to fluctuate a fair bit on where you put it on the carpeted floor, so for the last week I've been doing my body test on the hardwood part of the floor in the media room.
I also know that I tend to be much more aware of my posture and balance, and I feel like those have both improved, although the improvements are pretty small. I also noticed the other day that I tend to hold my gut in a little more without even really thinking about it. Many of the yoga poses and strength training things tend to work the abs, especially the very low ones (which I was heartily made aware of after the first day or two when I yawned and stretched backward. Ow!)
In other weight and fitness news, my mother has broken the 75 pound mark. She had gastric bypass surgery in February (the very day we left for Costa Rica, in fact), so this is right at 4 months out for her. Evidently it took till she almost hit the 50 mark before anybody who saw her every day really noticed she'd lost weight. (They all knew she'd had the surgery, of course, they had just never really noticed the weight loss. Or at least they'd never commented on it.)
Her knees are much, much less painful, to the point that she's playing in a weekly golf scramble with Dad and planning to bowl on at least one league this fall. This is a big deal--the knee pain was so bad she hadn't played golf since early last summer, and she hadn't bowled since mid-fall. The joint issues were the deciding factor in having the surgery; she was afraid that without it she would be looking at years, decades, of being stuck in a chair, unable to do the things she enjoyed.
Am I seeing any results? Hard to say, really. It claims I've lost 4 pounds since starting (net--that's not counting the other 4 it claims I gained and then lost during the first week.) At this rate, it'll be a few months before any weight loss will be readily visible, or even affect the fit of my clothes much, so I don't really have much of a measuring stick to judge how accurate the balance board's weight is. I do know it seems to fluctuate a fair bit on where you put it on the carpeted floor, so for the last week I've been doing my body test on the hardwood part of the floor in the media room.
I also know that I tend to be much more aware of my posture and balance, and I feel like those have both improved, although the improvements are pretty small. I also noticed the other day that I tend to hold my gut in a little more without even really thinking about it. Many of the yoga poses and strength training things tend to work the abs, especially the very low ones (which I was heartily made aware of after the first day or two when I yawned and stretched backward. Ow!)
In other weight and fitness news, my mother has broken the 75 pound mark. She had gastric bypass surgery in February (the very day we left for Costa Rica, in fact), so this is right at 4 months out for her. Evidently it took till she almost hit the 50 mark before anybody who saw her every day really noticed she'd lost weight. (They all knew she'd had the surgery, of course, they had just never really noticed the weight loss. Or at least they'd never commented on it.)
Her knees are much, much less painful, to the point that she's playing in a weekly golf scramble with Dad and planning to bowl on at least one league this fall. This is a big deal--the knee pain was so bad she hadn't played golf since early last summer, and she hadn't bowled since mid-fall. The joint issues were the deciding factor in having the surgery; she was afraid that without it she would be looking at years, decades, of being stuck in a chair, unable to do the things she enjoyed.