My Fitness Coach, Woot!
Down to 204 now! Sweeet. Hopefully down under 200 soon! Only 40 more pounds to go!
Wii Fit Diet + My Fitness Coach – A quick update
So I think my wii fit might be on the fritz. Or it might just hate me… but it consistently is weighing me 5 lbs heavier than what I weighed before. This evening, I got on it and it weighed me at 216 (vs 211 yesterday). Then I got on it after my Fitness Coach workout, and it weighed me at 221. Umm, kay? Weird. I weighed myself on a normal scale, and it said I weighed 210, so I am not sure what’s up.
In other news, I do not like My Fitness Coach’s yoga. I tried it today after my workout to help me relax, but it was super hard, because she expects you to know all of the different poses in yoga already and once she tells you what to do for a set (and you awkwardly try to follow her instructions) the first time around, the second time you’re expected to crane your neck up to look at the TV to see what she’s doing and when she’s changing positions. That’s right… she doesn’t say a THING to tell you when to move into the next position. This means when you’re supposed to move from a downward facing dog position into a crocodile, you will probably fall over, because you’re trying to see when she’s switching positions moving by holding your head at an awkward angle, trying to drop down into crocodile properly and trying to do proper breathing. I quit after 8 minutes of it, because both sets she had me do had downward dog in it and I couldn’t see ANYTHING. And she wasn’t telling me what to do! Argh! It was hurting my neck and my eyes so bad!
Otherwise though, I still really like My Fitness Coach. I’ve been through several different types of exercises now, and I do like its format. It’s face paced and gets me really moving! And nothing beats seeing how you burned 137 calories after your 30 minute workout. Yeeeeaaaah baby! And overall I do like it better than wii fit, except the yoga part. I still prefer Wii Fit for Yoga.
That’s about it though! I’ve gotta vacuum my house before my husband gets home. Oops. 
Too much exercise today (38 minutes)!
Wii Fit Diet + My Fitness Coach, Day 2
Woohoo! I’m down to 211.5 lbs today. I’m so happy. And My Fitness Coach is really really nice. I like it a lot. I did a 30 min workout today and it really got me going. It’s nice to have some variety. I will probably still keep playing wii fit though for the Yoga, because that’s very relaxing and nice. Also free step is good to do while I’m watching a movie or something.
I noticed a couple people searching for My Fitness Coach pictures, so I took some for those interested in seeing what it looks like:
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- My Fitness Coach title screen
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- My Fitness Coach focus area
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- My Fitness Coach
That’s about it for today! Only 45 more lbs to go!
Wii Fit Diet, Day 4
Here is a picture of my obese Mii. I think it looks a little more bulky than I do, but then again, what do I know? 
Well, it’s Day 4! I’m still on the wagon, as far as exercise and diet goes! I’ve been doing well at keeping my calories at 1700 and exercising for at least a half an hour every day!
Today’s stats:
Weight: 237.0 lbs!
BMI: 33.93
Wii Fit Age: 21
Yay! I’ve suddenly dropped down to 237 lbs! And I promise, I did weigh myself at the same time today as I did yesterday! Now, this may be due to “that time of the month” finishing up and so it may just be that I dropped some water weight… but I did weigh myself before “that time of the month” on an analog scale and it told me I was about 239, so… I think I may have dropped 2 pounds! I’m so proud of myself!
Today I did 32 minutes (and when I say minutes, I mean wii fit credit minutes) of Aerobics. Mostly Advanced Step and Super Hula Hoop, but also a little timed boxing. Still fun. Still feeling the burn! Sylvia was awake while I was working out today, so I sat her in her bouncer in front of the TV while I played, and she seemed to love it! She was kicking her feet and waving her arms around during Advanced Step. And when I’d start Advanced Step over again and it’d count down, she’d smile and coo excitedly. It was very cute.
I also did a little yoga today. That was fun, but it’s hard to do in my house, since we live in a basement, the ceiling is not tall… and I’m pretty tall, so my hands would hit the ceiling and I couldn’t straighten out the whole way when I was doing certain poses. Oh well.
See ya tomorrow!
Wii Fit Diet, Day 2
It’s day two of my Wii Fit dieting! How exciting! I hope I can keep this up.
Today’s stats:
Weight: 239.4 lbs
BMI: 34.28
Wii Fit Age: 25
So today I got on the Wii Fit and did my body test, where it weighs you and tests your balance and everything. I had “gained” .6 lbs from yesterday (probably partially because of doing the test at a slightly different time of day, and partially because my weight fluctuates depending on whether I’ve just fed the baby, or not… and also it’s “that time of the month”), and the Wii Fit asks me something like “What do you think your weight gain was caused by?”. It then lists things like “not exercising” and “eating habits” and several other things that I can’t remember, as well as “I don’t know”. I selected the latter option, because there was no such option as “I haven’t breastfed my baby for 2 hours, and also, I’m retaining water”.
Anyway, after experiencing the disappointing report of a gain of .6 lbs, I went on to my aerobics fitness games. Today I worked out for a whole hour! Yay! I did it primarily because I unlocked the aerobic exercise “free step”. Free step is cool, because it beats out time for you over the Wiimote speaker instead of the TV speaker, so you can change to a different channel and still hear the beat on the Wiimote. You step to the beat on the balance board and it counts your steps as you do so. You can choose 10, 20 or 30 minute times on it. The only thing I found annoying was that every 100 steps or so, the trainer interrupts the beat entirely to say “200 steps!” or “Keep up with me!” or “10 minutes left!” or some other random thing. It knocked me out of beat entirely when she’d do that, so I’d lose steps. This made me sad.
But anyway, I played “Free Step” for 30 minutes while I watched “The Saint”, which is a movie starring Val Kilmer before he got fat and starred in “Deja Vu”. We don’t have cable, so I have to watch movies when I want entertainment. But anyway, I enjoyed doing that pretty well. It made the time go by a lot faster than it normally seems to.
For my other 30 minutes, I did the following:
“Basic Run” around the island for about 11 minutes. The running in place makes my calves hurt. Also it seems like the Wiimote in your pocket thing does not work quite right, because even though I was running at a steady pace, my Mii would randomly speed up and slow down on me. This causes the game to proclaim “You’re running at an unsteady pace” and then it tells you that running at an unsteady pace makes it harder for you to burn fat. This made me slightly angry at the game.
I also played the “Super Hula Hoop” game for 3 minutes. I like that game, except for that it expects you to lean to one side or the other to catch hula hoops and keep wiggling your hips. The thing that bothers me about that is that it seems to want you to pretty much take all your weight off of one of your legs before your Mii will lean. It’s awfully hard to wiggle your hips and stand on one leg at the same time.
For the rest of the time, I did the “Advanced Step” game, which I like alright, except that it seems like you have to step slightly before the beat to get a “perfect” on it. Also, I have a hard time doing the sideways steps correctly. It puts me off balance.
Anyway, I feel like I get a good workout from the game. I usually end up pretty sweaty and tired afterwards, so I think I’m doing well!
I had read someone else’s opinion on the Wii Fit the other day. He expressed the sentiment that he felt that the running in place was stupid and that everyone should just go outside and run instead… I disagree for several reasons:
1) Running around your own neighborhood is boring and hazardous.
2) It’s hot outside in the summer.
3) Running outside triggers my asthma.
4) Putting on shoes and socks takes too long. Also, socks make my feet get really hot and gross.
5) Water from water bottles tastes like plastic.
6) Running outside wears me out a lot faster.
7) When you have a young baby, getting them all dressed up and putting them in the stroller takes forever.
When you have a young baby, you’re not supposed to run with them. Also, jogging strollers cost a lot.
9) People don’t wait at home for you and clap and jump up and down when you finish running.
So that is why I enjoy running in place with the Wii Fit rather than going outside.
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Well, that’s about it! We’ll see what happens tomorrow!
The baby came!
So the reason I haven’t updated in so long is because my little Sylvia decided to join our family!
If you recall, I was due on April 10th… but Sylvia decided to come a week early on April 4th, despite this being my first pregnancy. Everyone told me that first pregnancies come late, and I read about a study online that said first time babies come 7 days later than their due dates on average… so I was all set to be waiting for Sylvia to arrive on the 17th. So needless to say, I was pleasantly surprised to have her arrive early!
Even better, she weighed in at 8 lbs 14 oz, which is fairly heavy for a week-early baby girl. She was 20 1/2 inches long, so about normal as far as that goes.
She’s a sweetheart, and even though she leaves me quite sleep-deprived, I love her to death. I had a sort of interesting labor… and so I will proceed to give you the details now:
On the night of April 2nd, I slept quite well, until I was awakened at about 5 am on the 3rd by something wet trickling down my leg. I wasn’t sure if my water had broken though, so I kind of just laid there for half an hour… not wanting to wake Andrew up if it wasn’t my water breaking. Finally I decided to get out of bed, so I rolled over, and a lot more liquid appeared… I did a smell test to make sure it wasn’t something else, and it was definitely not… so I woke Andrew up. He got up, kind of stumbled around for a minute, then he woke up all the way and helped me gather everything that we needed for the hospital. The hospital is about 5 minutes from our house, which is nice, so we got there quickly and I got checked in.
They had me strip down and get into my hospital gown, then lay down on the bed. Then the nurse came in and used a litmus strip to test to see if it was amniotic fluid that I was leaking. The litmus test said it wasn’t. She said there was a lot of mucus in the way, and sometimes that would affect the litmus test, so she would test again in half an hour. Then contractions started. They didn’t hurt very much or anything at first, and they didn’t feel at all like what I expected… they just kind of felt like I had… well… gas in my intestines. lol I thought I would be able to feel like my muscles tightening up or something, but it was just kind of uncomfortable every 4 minutes or so.
Well, it turns out that my water hadn’t broken. They weren’t sure what all the liquid was that was leaking out of me, but it wasn’t amniotic fluid (possibly a very watery mucous plug?). I was having contractions every 3-4 minutes or so, but they weren’t very strong. It’d been like three hours or so, they had me walk around for an hour to see if that would make my contractions any stronger… it didn’t. They then told me to go home and come back when I couldn’t walk or talk through my contractions. They offered me pain meds, but since the contractions didn’t hurt a lot at the time, I told them I’d be fine.
So, I went home. By the evening, when it was time to go to sleep, my contractions were starting to hurt pretty bad, but I could still talk through them and whatnot. They were still occurring about every 3-4 minutes, so I decided I really couldn’t use that as a judge as how far I was in labor. I tried to sleep, but didn’t sleep very well… I would wake up and groan whenever I had a contraction occur. (Poor Andrew, I don’t think he slept well either.)
In the morning, I almost made Andrew take me to the hospital to get pain meds, but decided against it, because the contractions didn’t seem to be coming as often once I was up and moving around. Once he left though, I kind of regretted that, because they started up on the 3-4 minute occurrences again and they hurt a fair amount. And Tylenol did not help at all. I figured I would just wait until 5 when Andrew gets home from work. I sat through the day, and it hurt a lot… and by 3, I couldn’t stand it anymore, so I texted Andrew and told him to come home and get me. Which he did.
So at about 3:30 we were at the hospital. I told them I didn’t think that I would be having the baby now, that I just wanted pain meds. They still have to check you and everything though. So I got undressed again, and the doctor came in and checked how dilated I was… I was 7 cm (this was about 4:30ish pm)! And just as he was checking, my water broke, so he told me they were going to check me in and everything and that I’d be having my baby.
Well, once my water broke, the contractions REALLY started hurting. Oh man, I was DYING… and the anesthesiologist was doing a c-section at the moment and wouldn’t be in for 10 minutes. So I had to go through 10 minutes of hard labor, then I got the epidural…. Oh. My. Goodness. I am so happy I got that epidural… all of a sudden there was NO pain. I could just feel some pressure down there, but no pain at all… so I could talk to my husband and the nurse and the doctor. It was great! There is no way I would ever want to do that natural… I would rather enjoy the experience, thank you very much. How can you enjoy anything if you’re screaming in intense pain? Or just focusing on breathing? No, I will always get an epidural.
So we sat around for a few hours while I went through the transition period, and finally it was time to push… about 6:10 pm or so. So I pushed through 2 contractions (luckily, I could tell from the pressure when I was having a contraction… it just didn’t hurt) and then before the third one, the doctor did an episiotomy (sp?) and I pushed through two more. It did hurt a little bit when her head crowned, but once that was done, I was great. She arrived at 6:44 pm. The doctor was impressed that it didn’t take very long, considering I had an epidural and I was a first-timer. I was also happy that it didn’t take very long.
So a long labor…. 36 hours altogether, but only 3 spent in the hospital (sweet!). Then I only had to stay for 24 hours before they let me go home! My epidural wore off really really fast, and I recovered really well, so they told me I could go home early if I wanted (which I did, because the hospital is really boring).
So a great experience overall! My baby is such a blessing, and I am so happy to have her! Here are some pictures!
