I generally agree, with these additional comments: the Wii Fit is easy to set up; the assessments are blunt and can be inaccurate; the exercises I do are fun; some of the exercises don’t appeal (yoga, muscle fitness) and I don’t use them because using Wii Fit to supplement my exercise program, I’m not dependent on Wii Fit for strength building exercise.

If you need to be convinced to attend the gym, avoid walking outside and can’t imagine doing it inside, then the Wii Fit program can offer you many options for fun ways to get moving. I like the jogging as a warm up. The step games work as activity particularly if you are counting steps but of course in general a long walk outside would give better results. I weigh in monthly. You can even do this without knowing your weight at all, which I like. I have had 2 weigh ins with one loss and one gain. I haven’t taken the gain too seriously as muscle build up can add weight

As a general policy when exercising to lose weight I enthuse about what is working for me and ignore what isn’t. Often that means that some process or piece of equipment may be imperfect but some of it isn’t, so it’s worth persevering. Walking itself comes into that category. I supplement my weight loss program with the gym, Wii Fit, games, ipods, dvds, friends, forums.

Wii Fit has some limitations in that the already slim or active, who are looking to tone or trim, may expect too much from it. It is definitely aimed at the inactive and overweight where some activity, with gradual increases, will produce results.

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What do you get out of being overweight? Make a list of the advantages. Two that come to mind:

being overweight can mean that losing weight is too hard and normal restraint doesn’t apply because it’s too late to make a change;

being overtired is part of being overweight which means I’m always too tired to exercise, and if I exercise then I’m too tired to carry out my responsibilities…

If while you’re eating with restraint you are dreaming of the day you will be able to eat ‘normally’ perhaps your attitude needs exercising to tighten it, because thinking that way is going to make it hard to do and guaranteed to fail.

The new dream needs to be of the day when you are so enamoured of the renovated body and lifestyle you are enjoying that eating is a pleasure but not a primary motivating power in your life, and activity is daily and also a motivating factor in your new life.

If you would like to have a fit, attractive, healthy body, then talk and admire that, when you see it. Ignore anything that does not fit into that category. Do not comment on it. So compliment someone who looks nice and avoid making any asides to a friend when you see someone who’s put on weight, particularly if this person wants to talk about it i.e. how hard it is to lose weight, how she just looks at food and gains weight. When you’re starting out you don’t need sceptics or saboteurs.

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