I have not yet blogged about it, but we are now proud owners of the Wii Fit. After a week doing some intense strength and mild aerobic training on it, taking in a lot of protein and watching what I eat, I can already see a marked difference.
To give you an idea: In our home, after going to the grocery store, it is customary for me to hold my arms out a bit like a forklift and have Jessica load them up with our purchases. I hate making more than one trip up and down the stairs so I like to get it all in one go if at all possible. Normally I distribute the weight equally between both arms, then lug them up the stairs. I'm usually winded and slightly arm sore by the time I get up there and almost always immediately flop onto the couch.
This past week went by with Wii Fit, and it ended with us going to the store. We bought a significant quantity of food this time, more so than usual. I was able to load everything onto one arm. My *left* arm, the weaker of the two. Carried everything up to the apartment effortlessly, without even so much as an extra beat added to my heart or breath rate. My arm didn't even feel tired. In other words, piece of cake.
Definite improvement.
I will of course continue with this. I want badly to continue improving. I'm also dieting, enforcing said dieting by leaving my debit card at home. I never carry cash. Without my debit card handy, I will not be able to snack while at work. What I eat will be carefully regulated by what I bring with me in my pockets daily.
In other news, my work has become a damaged proposition. All Internet usage has become banned, even on breaks. Use of the computers in the cafeteria is being strictly limited. I have written this post from my work machine. I will have precisely ten minutes to log in, post it, do a couple other things, and then log out. Normally this type of restriction doesn't fly for very long; the natives get restless, or so it is said. We'll see how long they stick to their guns this time.
02 February 2009
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2 comments:
Glad you are noticing improvement and that you're liking the WiiFit.
Sorry to hear about the internet ban there. When you were able to get on, do they have any sort of filter?
Well, you know very well how pleased I am with your progress. You're to be mentioned in my latest post, in fact.
Seems you'll have to see it tonight, though. Ah, the old one-two punch. Requests for overtime and a ban of online activity. Then they'll want to know why company morale is low.
I don't know if this is true, but the president of our company once forwarded an article about a lot of workers whose production skyrocketed when they were promised an all-expenses paid cruise trip.
Ironically, we've never had any kind of incentive or bonus offered to us.
It's always easier and cheaper to punish and receive marginally better results. /eyeroll
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