Full Disclosure

Yesterday's calorie goal: 1400, Actual calories: 1359
Yesterdays exercise goal: 60 minutes (30 cardio/strength, 30 yoga), 
Actual exercise: 60 minutes (30 cardio/strength circuit focus on arms, 30 abs)


Still didn't get my yoga in.  I am going to do Yoga this morning before anything else, damnit.  LOL.

Now for the full disclosure:


I don't own a scale. Well, not your everyday, bathroom variety anyway.  I use the scale at my gym (those awful ones that you see at the doctors office where you have to move the blocks on a lever at the top until it matches your weight.  I have a hate-hate relationship with those.  They always seem to add about 5 pounds to what I thought I was) and I use my Wii Fit board. 

But I can't own a real bathroom scale.  I have "issues" with bathroom scale.  Mainly that I will weight myself every time I go to the bathroom (and I don't mean that every time I go to complete a bodily function, I weigh myself.  I mean that every time I walk into the bathroom for ANY reason--brush my teeth, put something away, get a bandaid, etc--I weigh myself).  I also will weigh myself if I come within 2 feet of the bathroom door.  You know how they say that your weight fluctuates about 2 pounds throughout the course of a day.  Well, A) that's true and B) I could tell you how my weight fluctuates at each hour of the day.  That is how often I weigh myself.  (My weight is at my lowest between 11am - 1pm depending on when I eat lunch--it is lower before I eat.  It is highest after dinner).  Having an obsession with my bathroom scale is not healthy.  And for me, it determined each hour as either a "good" part of the day or a "bad" part of the day.  Long story short, my husband gave me a bit of an intervention and the scale went into the garbage.  I was freed!


I go to the gym 2-4 times a week and I hate that scale so much I only get on it once a week.  The Wii Fit board (using the Wii Fit Plus "game") is too much of a hassle to weigh myself more than once a day. So it is a safe bet.


Usually the Wii Fit board is fairly accurate.  It always matched my bathroom scale when I had it.  And after throwing away the bathroom scale, when I started going to the gym, I started checking that scale against the Wii Fit scale and it was very close (sometimes the same weight, sometimes a pound difference).  

So here comes the full disclosure (and if you don't own or know anything about the Wii or Wii Fit--I apologize in advance.  This may not make any sense).


When I started this blog a couple of days ago, I weighed myself on my Wii Fit board and it said 212.5.  But I should note that the Wii (the console, not the Wii Fit board) was on it's last leg.  After a year of my 1-2 year old shoving discs into it--one after another without taking any out--it wouldn't read discs anymore.  I could use the different "channels" (when you turn on the Wii--there are several channels that you can choose without using a disc).  One of my channels was the Wii Fit channel--which allows me to do a "body test"--get my weight, check my balance, etc.  This is what I used.


Yesterday, I bought a new Wii (and later a new Wii Fit Plus game as the old one was damaged beyond cleaning).  Because it was new, all of my saved data was gone and I needed to start from scratch.  That was okay.  But when I stepped on the board to weigh myself it said 215!!!!  215!!!! 2.5 pounds in 2 days???!!!  REALLY???!!!!  

I then used my Biggest Loser Wii game to check, and my EA Active game to check.  They both said 217!!!!!  Two more pounds within an hour????  REALLY???  


Okay--Those 2 games always did put me at 2 pounds heavier than the scale or the Wii Fit board, so that really was no surprise.  But still.  I have a goal.  


Now there may be other explanations.  It was 10pm when I was weighing myself.  I could be getting my period.  Maybe my clothes were heavier this time on the scale.  Maybe all three.  I will be weighing myself today--this morning on the Wii Fit just to check again and I will go from there** (**See below). 


I am considering buying a new bathroom scale, just to have ONE scale to use for Weigh In Wednesdays.  But I will make the husband keep it in his office and only bring it out on Wednesdays!  LOL.


Okay here we go:

Today's calorie goal: 1400
Today's exercise goal: 30 minutes of Yoga! (I am keeping this number low today--my four year old was very sick last night and his fever still hasn't broken.  My 2 year old is feeling feverish as well.  So I am keeping my exercise numbers conservative).


**Just weighed myself on the Wii Fit this morning.  Results: 213.8  Much better--and can be attributed to a number of things.  But for continuity sake, I am going to use this as my starting number (I am going to go back an edit the first blog to reflect this).  I am also going to weigh in on Wednesdays between 8:30am and 9am to keep everything as equal as possible.