I've mentioned that I weigh myself each morning using the Wii, and how, for some inexplicable reason, it's been going backward with time. I'd made it up to 300 hours of exercise time, taken time off, and when I resumed, the little clock started going the wrong way. I'd gotten down to 213 hours. Then, last week, weirdly enough, it started ticking ( Read more... )

Last year or so, I realized that the little time clock on my Wii Fit was losing time. When I was more active with it, I hit 300 hours. Then, when I regularly started using it again and exercising a little--emphasis on little--in the morning, I realized it wasn't banking time any longer; it's going backwards. Withdrawals. Glad I didn't have a 401K ( Read more... )

I achieved a milestone today that I need to mention. I've been using Wii Fit for over a decade, close to 15 years. I've been doing yoga on it for roughly as long. For many of the poses, I've hit at least 90 points on them; a few, it's not uncommon for me to get to 100 points, which is the highest amount. I think 70 points gets you a 3-star level; ( Read more... )

A month into the new year, I'm doing well with making myself move every morning. My goal was 5 minutes a day, and I've done at least that. It's hard getting up at 6:30 AM but it's getting better ( Read more... )

I've restarted doing some minor exercises on the Wii. I had been so good about exercising every day, getting up by a particular time, making sure I move, and I lost that when I threw my back out last January. I was so sore for several weeks that I couldn't move, and by the time I was physically able, I'd lost all momentum. I can feel that it's bad ( Read more... )

A week ago Friday, I believe it was, I started experiencing these shoots of pain in my left hip. It's nerve pain that comes on suddenly with no known reason. It comes and goes, and doesn't happen often, but when it comes it can be quite the jolt ( Read more... )

I exercised this morning for the first time in several weeks. I think I mentioned that I did *not* include exercising with my Lenten stuff, and I was thankful for that, because I was so exhausted that I could barely get out of bed. Then it was sort of a recursive thing: I don't exercise because I'm tired, and I'm tired because I don't exercise ( Read more... )

For the first time since I hurt myself, I exercised a bit this morning. I did a little yoga. Normally I'd do about 15 minutes; today I did 10. That works out to five poses. They're all counted as two minutes long, so typically I'd do eight. I'm not ready for a few of them but I want to start getting back into a routine. Rest was more important to ( Read more... )

I'd gotten a couple of checks for my birthday, plus a paycheck this week, so it was time for a bank run prior to grocery shopping yesterday. As is their custom, my mom and grandma both wrote "Happy Birthday!" in the memo section on their checks. I also have to send in my ID when I go to the drive-thru at my bank, so all those combined to have the ( Read more... )

Every morning, I weigh myself on the Wii and I try to get in about 15 minutes' worth of exercise. I realized recently that I was close to hitting 300 cumulative hours on the little piggy bank clock that Wii Fit has to keep track of what you do. I started counting down the days, estimating when I'd hit it, and I think I realized, okay, it likely ( Read more... )