Is it possible to be Wii Fit?

Is it possible to be Wii fit? Well I am about to find out, after already having embarked on a healthier eating, dragging the exercise machine out of the garage and actually using it lifestyle Nick surprised us yesterday with a Wii and the Wii fit board etc... Now it has to be said I have already lost 3lbs through my above mentioned method and yes I did get back from London on Friday at about 9.00pm to then go onto the Gazelle for 28 minutes - yes I am dedicated (so far!) No seriously, I will not tell you my weight for I am not into public humiliation but let's just say I really need to lose 1 1/2 stone and let's just say that the Wii does confirm I am overweight (also to all and sundry who happen to be within ear shot at the time, so yes, thanks for that!) But I have mentioned before I hate the thought of being unfit, growing older and slower and then not having the fitness to keep up with my (very fit) 10 year old.

Now I do want to get paranoid about these things after all I would prefer to live my life rather than exist so I do not want to be counting every calorie and spending more time checking the labels for fat content and sugar than it actually takes to normally shop as I do not actually eat very unhealthily it purely comes down to the fact that I craft for a living which means I am sat down and the rest of my time I am running the two business' which means I am either on the computer (sat down) or on the telephone (sat down) and if I am really lucky I may be going to do a workshop or a demo so I am in the car (sat down, you can see where I am going with this then?!) and then hurrah at the demo or workshop I am predominantly stood up..... in one place!

So it is fair to say that apart from running up and down the stairs at home I do not get exercise at all. Now here within lies the problem - time - I always have lack of time due to how much I work but I have to make time and I guess this is one of the reasons the Wii helps - it keeps track of all the time you have spent doing the activities as well as your progress etc... and there is no way of cheating! if you have spent 30 mins exercising then you have spent 30 mins not that well I think I have probably been exercising for an hour or so! Now the other part is that you definitely work out more areas of the body - the Gazelle that I dragged out of the garage (that was at least 12 calories) is quite good for cardiovascular and working out parts of the body but not all, so the Wii fit it is and personally I can vouch for the fact that actually it is much tougher than you first think and as for the trainer well there is no fooling them either, after embarking on the muscular work out I realised we had the board the wrong way around so afterward the trainer, being very helpfull, said "now I know you stopped halfway through......." I wanted to then shout back well of course I did the board was the wrong way round! But alas that would have done me no good but I was content with the thought that if I ever do find the trainer too annoying there is always the mute button!