Diet and Exercise

More on the Wii Fit

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You probably want to know more about the Wii Fit than the fact that TW tried to kill us getting to the UPS to accept delivery and that she sniffed it and that I laughed my ass off during her first run through of the various exercises. Since TW is Wii Fitting again right now, I figured this would be a good time for a bigger post on the topic. I had videos that were significantly more amusing than the ones I have up on youtube right now. But, I was an idiot and deleted them from the Flip before I actually uploaded them. The videos that came later, not quite as funny because we knew more about what to DO. Oh well.

Anyway, the Wii Fit – fun and funny also it makes you sweat. And, it’s obviously flawed since it suggests TW is more “fit” than I am. But then again, she barely MOVES unless she’s falling off of the thing so maybe it’s not the Wii Fit’s fault? It does indicate Michelle is more fit than both of us, so it’s accurate in that respect.

In the beginning, when choosing a trainer. I insisted she choose the female. Obviously. Duh. And as soon as the chick opened her mouth, TW started to giggle and I started to laugh and I said “OMG She sounds like Anne Pearce Ornish” and I’m listening to the trainer’s voice now, and she STILL sounds like Anne Pearce Ornish. I find it hard to focus when listening to Anne Pearce Ornish and I don’t even want to think about what TW is thinking while listening to Anne Pearce Ornish….

That push up thing, damn. I was impressed with my six repetitions even if I did do “girl” push ups.

The tree – I can do that for hours, but when it comes to standing ON the Wii Fit and doing it, something goes wrong. I blame the texture of the Wii Fit. Or maybe the little thing that tells you whether you’re keeping your balance or maybe the blue circle trying to force me to breathe on command. Whatever.

Michelle is awesome at the Step Dancing thing. TW is awesome at hula hoop.

TW wants to take the darn thing with us to Miami this weekend. Umm no. I don’t think I want Anne Pearce Ornish in my hotel room.

For those of you who do not know what I’m talking about… re Anne Pearce Ornish, check out her align your breath video – the one I was really thinking about is on the DVD in Ornish’s new book but this is a good example.

Now I’m going to fold some laundry and turn on some music to block out the Wii Fit trainer. Sheesh

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Wii Fit has arrived and…

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I would normally be twittering this stuff but twitter is down… it’s too good NOT to share so I’ll publish for posterity right here:

We were at our desks, and suddenly TW leaps out of her chair and barrels through the boxes and the furniture and the dog running toward the door.

I’m like WTF?  And then I realize, the UPS truck is here.  The Wii Fit has arrived.

She’s opening the box, not listening to a word I’m saying about MR Obama and his misogyny and suddenly… she SNIFFS the Wii Fit.  Yes, she SNIFFED IT.

What in the hell will this thing cause her to do next? (Besides log off of her computer for the day…)

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Sabotage

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A bit more than a year ago (I can’t remember exactly when) I decided to give up ‘Nutter Butters forever. I did this in support of some folks who were trying to “give stuff up”. I also did this because ‘Nutter Butters were beginning to become a pretty serious problem for me.

I’m not generally a give up X forever kind of person. People who say they’re going to give up carbs or give up sodas or give up TV foreverrrrrrrrr because they aren’t healthy just don’t make sense to me. Everything in moderation tends to be my motto. Except, when it comes to ‘Nutter Butters.

They are a problem and I kicked the habit. No ‘Nutter Butters in a year. None.

On Friday Thursday, Michelle and I ran into the grocery store for some junk food and I grabbed a couple of packages of those individually wrapped cookies and crackers – they were two for one. One of those packages contains mini ‘Nutter Butters. I did not, for anything more than a second, consider opening a package (or all of the packages) and eating them.

Today, for some reason, TW placed a package of the ‘Nutter Butters on my bedside table. I noticed it after a trip to the bathroom. I moved the package to HER bedside table and griped at her about it.

She moved the package back to my bedside table and I moved it back to hers.

Then, she moved it so that it is under the glass of my desk, just to the left of my computer. I removed it and handed it to Liz to eat or do what she pleased with. She gave it to Prince J who graciously ate them.

TW is ticking me off.

Why do people feel the need to challenge someone else’s will power. That’s messed up, isn’t it? Someone ought to speak to her about that kind of behavior. Maybe I’ll call her mother and tattle?

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TW has mislead some people

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I’m willing to take responsibility for a lot of things that go wrong around here. I’m also willing to take the blame for stuff. But damn it. Not this time. I do not get blamed or held responsible for the Gator Food issue. That was completely TW’s doing. COMPLETELY.

Do NOT let her fool you into thinking it was me. You know me, I’m perfectly happy not to eat any dinner at all.

TW’s fault. Completely.

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Stalked! (by coffee)

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Many years ago, at a dot com I used to live at, I was stalked by coffee. It wasn’t just me, the entire community was stalked by Millstone coffee. There was a great free offer from Millstone and everyone was thrilled by that ad. Until the ad banners turned into pop up ads. Then we were not so thrilled. The ad banners and pop up ads were on every page of the site – every time you changed pages, you’d get another one. We were STALKED by Millstone coffee and we did not like it. We quickly went from being in love with Millstone for the free offer to calling for a boycott of Millstone.

Flash forward 10 years and I’m being stalked by coffee. Again. But this time I’m not calling for a boycott.

Juan Valdez has a great contest being advertised on BlogHer. Cool. Besides being on BlogHer, the Juan Valdez ad is on blogs all over the internet because of the awesome folks at BlogHer Ads. Cool.

So I expect to see a lot of Juan Valdez when I’m reading blogs. I did not expect to see Juan Valdez when I read my Juno webmail (the account attached to my homeschool blog comments). Nor did I expect to see Juan Valdez when I checked out About.com’s brand new weight loss product, Calorie Count Plus (which by the way looks fantastic and could easily give some of the more popular – or less popular – diet tools a run for their money.) I also did not expect to see Juan Valdez when I was surfing online newspapers for women blogging health for said newspapers.

Juan Valdez is everywhere I am. Stalked. Again.

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She just walks around with it – unless she’s trapped on a ball

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Kristy. Is. Awesome.

Anyone who has attended BlogHer Con already knows this. Anyone who reads her blog already knows this.

What? You haven’t attended either BlogHer Con or read her blog? WTF are you doing with your life? What a waste. But it’s ok. You can start now. It’s never too late to make a healthy change. And don’t worry, you won’t have to lay on a rubber ball, or stop eating carbs.

Read and learn and laugh. A lot.

Balls of Death

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Life! Force! Energy!

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Alrighty then, that pretty much sums up my feelings about Raw Food Life Force Energy: blah blah blah. But, I’ll expand on that.

First, the book itself – once you take the jacket off, the book screams Life! Force! Energy! Awesome color choice. Awesome texture, kind of soft but firm and smooth. Cool. Nice book to hold. I found myself wondering right off the bat why we needed “Acknowledgements” “Forward” and “Introduction”. Couldn’t we have just gotten on with things? I appreciated the index in the back. I think some of the other “charts” and such should have also been in the back, along with the 21 day plan with a better layout – but I’ll get to my issues with the 21 day plan in a second. The questions and answers were a nice way to tie things up and answer some situational type questions that obviously come up while reading the book.

Next, the writing. Life! Force! Energy! Ack. It read like an infomercial. Total and complete turn off for me. Anything that guarantees “Effortless abundant weight loss” makes me suspect and that’s pretty much the way I felt all of the way through the book. Bad idea to start the meat er flesh of the book with that statement. Very bad idea.

I must say that while I am not a “raw foods believer” I do believe that many of our weight and health problems are related to the SAD (Standard American Diet). As someone who spends the day talking about diet, I AM very interested in the raw food movement. So I’m not totally blowing off this book.

I do think claiming Life Force Energy is a bit much. And the whole vibrating thing just left me cold. Yes we should be taking in a ton of vegetables, preferably organic and yes raw would be ideal. Also whole grains and a lot less processed JUNK. Agree, agree, agree. I am also very interested in food combination theories and I can see how that might work for many, many people. Overall, the whole raw food movement goes just a bit too far for me.

They lose me, and this author lost me specifically, in these areas:

1) Flesh, even organic free range chicken and eggs and such, have the aura of death and so they should not be eaten because of the negative effect on the human spirit, body and “Life Force Energy”! Cheese and milk from these poor DEATH FLESH creatures is bad but cheese and milk from goats is great! Okkkk then. Also apparently FISH don’t have the DEATH FLESH or as much DEATH FLESH so fish is OK! That makes absolutely no sense to me. Either you go all out or you don’t.

2) Juicing. Ack. No thanks. I don’t do juice for any reason. Ever. Really. I don’t want to drink my vegetables and I don’t want to drink my fruit. An occasional fruit drink is fine, no problem, but all of this push to JUICE! is INSANE! (I’m using a lot of ! because the book used a lot of ! INFOMERCIAL!) Drinking my breakfast of vegetable juice until 1/2 hour before lunch just doesn’t work for me.

3) Colonics. No, I’ve researched this and researched this and I don’t buy it. I don’t buy that we need to use colonics for any reason. Eat raw foods or more raw foods, I can get behind that. But as soon as you start to tell me to take an enema or have a colonic, I’m done.

4) Don’t keep selling me stuff in your book! Probiotics are something I can get behind until you tell me that the only ones that really work are the ones you sell on your website. Nope! Done! Infomercial!

Now that I’ve gotten that out of the way, let’s look at the 21 day program. Waste of paper! Every single day is exactly the same except for day one when you’re told to “eliminate” first thing in the morning and do that every morning… and you’re given the option of a pre-dinner snack of a POUND of RAW carrots! And day 3, day 9, day something else when you’re told to use an enema or have a colonic. Yes, you’re given ideas for meals or for relaxation and you’re given homework as well. Those relaxtion tips and homework ideas – I’m good with those. But the layout for the 21 day plan could have been better, handled more efficiently and saved paper (not to mention my time.)

The recipes. I can take them or leave them. Mostly leave them because they didn’t knock my socks off. They weren’t BAD and I could see myself referring to a few of them from time to time. Even some of the juice drinks, excuse me, Elixirs!, were interesting. I think I expected more because I’ve read so many good reviews about Rose’s first book.

So – scale of 1-10 with 10 being the best vibration! I give it a 4. If it didn’t sound so much like an infomercial, it probably would have gotten a 6.

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