More conversations with myself - and day 1 of My Fitness Coach
So I had to do the writing exercise (conversation between my dominant and non-dominant hand) for four days. I won't bore you with all of it, but here are a couple more snippets.
Is it my fault? Despite planning and setting goals and all the best intentions, I never seem to succeed.
It shouldn't be so hard. It shouldn't
become this time consuming thing, always planning and documenting
everything. Plans and goals are good tools but only that. It's not
about making the best plans. It's about taking action. You've
dieted for enough years and read enough books that you certainly do
know what to do. The trick is doing it. But not through coercion or
planning it to death, just do it. Just BE the person you want to be.
Don't wait until you're thin to be this awesome person who truly LIVES
her life. Act as if you're already her. You
keep BEING someone who's fat trying to be thin, so that's what you'll
continue to be. But if you BE someone who eats healthy, works out and
lives her perfect life, then that's what you'll be. There is only now.
Don't wait for some day.
I recall a friend I had years ago who
was overweight, but you never seemed to notice that about her. She
always looked her best. She was confident and funny and likable, people
were naturally drawn to her. You just couldn't help but like her.
So be like that. Maybe spend more on
clothes that make you feel beautiful and confident. Your excuse is
always you'll wait until you lose weight. Well don't wait to be the
best you you can be. Buy a few new things NOW. Eat right and exercise
now, but don't WAIT for the results to start living - live as though
they're already achieved.
I found that exercise a bit strange I must say, but who knows. It wasn't half bad advice.
-------
NOW -- on to my first day using My Fitness Coach
on the Wii. It was interesting ... you set up your profile and it's
fairly complete -- even entering measurements and goals. Then you enter
your resting heart rate, do a 2 minute exercise test and enter it
again. Answer a few more questions, including what type of exercise
equipment you own, and she's set up your suggested training routine.
You're free to choose what you want each day but the trainer always
makes a recommendation. Today was cardio.
So I did the 45 minute cardio segment, and it was good - I certainly
worked up a good sweat. But it's a computer generated trainer you're
following, and her moves sometimes look a bit awkward. And the music
and her comments would get a bit boring over time, but you could easily
turn the sound off and use your own music because there are cues along
the bottom of the screen -- you can see how much longer you'll be doing
this move and what move is coming next, whether it requires weights or
step bench, etc. Oh, that's one other thing that was strange -- since
I told her I had a step bench, she uses it from time to time in the
routine. But hers disappears when she's not using it. Mine doesn't!
So after you've used the bench, another move might come up that has you
jogging forward and back, or some other move that my bench is in the
way for, even if hers isn't. I just pushed it to the side and went out
on a diagonal on those moves.
You can also get credit for doing exercises outside the program - like
the 30 minute walk we took later in the day, that I entered on the
calendar as well. I'll let you know when I see what other types of
exercises she has in mind for me, but so far I kinda like it. There
are sections of the program you can go in to track progress, so I'll
have to stick with it for a little while to see what those look like.
Anyway, that's it for now.