A New Years Resoluation and our Wii Fit

About 10 months or so ago, I lost one of my favorite shirts; it simply seemed to vanish.  I use to wear this shirt all the time.  It was a longer style pink and white shirt and it fit me perfectly.  Most weekends, if I wanted to wear something casual and still look nice, I'd wear this shirt.

Well, as I was cleaning out one of my son's closets, I found this long, lost shirt.  The shirt was, for some unknown reason, laying on the side of an art supply bin and initially looked like an art smock.  But it wasn't - it was my lost shirt and I was ecstatic.  So, to reacquaint myself with this long, lost friend - I rushed to another room to try the shirt on.

Gasp.

It was too tight.  In about 10 months, I gained enough weight to make a shirt that once looked great - now look completely ridiculous. 

Completely ridiculous. 

My youngest son, to magnify my trauma, looked at me in my suddenly super-tight pink shirt and cackled a laugh that may have been heard all the way to Layton Ave.  Thankfully, thankfully, thankfully my husband was not home to witness this event.

New Year’s Resolution Number 1: To fit into my old shirt once again.

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And I will exercise regularly ... once again.

If you have a Nintendo Wii and the Wii Fit game, this is a great site - Wii Fit Routines. This web site has a section that groups the various activities on the Wii Fit program into a full 15-60 minute workout/routine. To view these routines, you need to sign up on the site (free). After you do this, you can choose from various difficulty level routines and you can choose between different routines, depending on your goal.  For example, there are routines for weight loss, for endurance, for strength, and for yoga skills.

One of my biggest complaints about the Wii Fit has been - compared to a gym - a Wii Fit workout never did much for me. The Wii Fit is fun (skiing is, for now, my favorite), but as for a workout, I was rarely left winded.  This web site helps you combine the right activities to give you a decent workout.  What a great help!  Before I saw this site, the Wii Fit was simply a bunch of little activities/exercises that contibuted to a fun evening with the kids.   Now because of this site, I've learned how to combine the activies together.  We have the new Wii Fit Plus game (which we are still learning) - so some of the routines on this site are a little different than what I have. But when this happens, I substitute.

Of course, Wii Fit will never be better than riding your bike outside or going to a gym.  But it's a great program and another option we can do in the winter in the comfort of our homes (in my pajamas) to exercise and do something fun at the same time. Maybe this will help me complete my New Year's resolution ...