Fitness Friday ~ Wii Fitness??

I have broken the cardinal “no video games” rule and we bought a Wii this week. It was quite a journey trying to find one. We thought this far after Christmas they’d be pretty easy to find ~ boy were we wrong.

It all started this Christmas when Ryan’s son brought his Wii over and we played a little bit ~ take that back, he and Ryan played a lot and everyone else watched. It looked really fun. As much as I love my husband we don’t have a lot of “activity” type things in common. This looked like something we could do together and have some family fun together.

It was about that time I found the Wii Fit group of women having a rockin’ good time getting fit and losing weight with their Wii Fits. That kind of cinched it. I am working hard to lose weight and get fit and really wanted a Wii Fit ~ but ya gotta have a Wii for the Wii Fit to work lol.

So we finally, with a lot of effort, tracked down a Wii on Wednesday. We ran home hooked it up and played for a while. We played a couple games of Boxing, and a few games of Tennis and bowling. It was a lot of fun, and I was TIRED and winded after the boxing games.

Before I went to bed I tweeted that I had been playing boxing and thought I might be sore the next day. Here’s the reply I recieved from @ifamous

And she was NOT kidding. My arms and back were killing me yesterday. I did stick to my Fit Yummy Mummy workout schedule and did my strength training session yesterday.

Last night, I don’t know what I was thinking, I said to my husband, “Hey, let’s play a couple rounds of boxing!” Well that was probably the dumbest thing I’ve done in a while. I could barely move the blankets around to get comfortable last night my arms and back were so sore.

I am still looking for the Wii Fit to be in stock somewhere, and I have to say ~ I used to mock people who talked about getting fit and losing weight with the Wii. I mean come on! it’s a video game!!

I take it ALL back!! I take it all back. I am pretty sure if you play hard and keep doing it consistently you probably can get in better shape ~ especially if you’re like me and sit at a desk and don’t get much physical exercise in your life.

What I think really does it is it’s fun. I mean really, as sore as I was last night I NEVER would have thought of “working out” on top of it. But I did want to kick my hubby’s ass at boxing. (which I did NOT ~ I think he practices after I go to bed!)

All in all this has been a great week fitness wise ~ I have stuck to my supportive eating quite well. I used 2 of my 3 “cheat meals” this week. I did all of my scheduled workouts ~ even though I was sore, drank more water than I usually do and took a little “me” time every day. I’m half way through The Hour I First Believed.

I have lost what looks like 2 pounds so far this week. I don’t really have much faith in scales as at times this week it has said I’ve lost 4 pounds and some times it says none. 🙂 But I’ll take 2 today.

I’m still on the lookout for a Wii Fit so I can get started with that too, hopefully it will help me get consistent with my Yoga practice I’ve been trying to get started with for the last few years!!