Ok. It is January and time for all the normal resolutions. I have set the goal of losing weight again this year. This year is a little different from all the years that I failed before. I bought a wii. I tried out the wii and found out that despite not picking up a video game since Atari was the rage that I like the wii. It is fun and when I was playing, I forgot that I might also be exercising. For Christmas, I asked for and got the wii fit plus and also Shaun White's Snowboarding. I also have the Active Adventures Extreme Sports game with mat. So I am ready. I am going to be active this year if it kills me. Even if I don't lose a single pound or one inch, I will be able to climb the stairs without breathing hard by this time next year.
I have decided for accountability purposes that I will post my progress and my slip ups to keep me honest.
Before every journey begins, there must be a starting point. Here is mine. I am going to be 40 years old in June. I am all of 5 feet 3 inches tall. And horror of horrors, I weigh 232 pounds. According to the wii, my BMI is 40.38 which as it likes to remind me repeatedly "that's obese". How I long for the day that it's electronic voice will be saying "that's overweight" or in a perfect world "that's normal". I measured my waist and my hips. Scary numbers but here goes: waist was 38 inches and hips were 53 inches. Just to put that into perspective, my hips are over 4 feet around and only 10 inches less than I am tall. Yikes. These are the measurements that I am going to use to monitor my progress.
So here is hoping that by using my wii and slowly making changes to my eating habits that I will be 100 pounds lighter and much smaller by January of 2011.
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