K and I managed to finally snag ourselves a Wii Fit. I’ve been on the hunt for one for over a month and Friday we managed to snag not one but two, allowing us to at least halve the cost of our own one.

Saturday we sat down and played with it for the first time and I’ve committed myself to “30 Days of Wii Fit.” I’m going to eat right, and do at least 10 minutes of Wii Fit everyday for the next month. Probably more as I get going, but I can do 10 minutes on the thing no matter how busy I am. And we’ll see how it goes. If this month shows improvement, then I’m considering another 30 day project of Wii Fit + Wii Boxing which can work up quite a sweat.

Who knows, I could be Nintendo’s Jared.

In all seriousness though, Wii Fit is amazing. K and I are extremely lazy when it comes to working out, we live hectic lives but we always are “too tired” to walk, or too busy, or we just forget, or it’s raining. Well, Wii Fit makes all of those excuses much more difficult to come by.

When I unpacked it and set it up, it was all fairly straight forward. I weighed in and went through the balance test. I noticed that they registered me about 20 lbs light of what I knew my weight to be so while Katie went through the setup procedure I went to double check my weight and sure enough it was off.

The kit came with some feet to put over the Balance Board’s feet if you have deep carpets. I never thought of our carpets as deep but they’re deep enough. When we put the feet on and I reweighed myself, it registered my weight correctly. So unless you have hardwood or tile floors, or the extremely tight carpets, you want to put those extra feet on the bottom of your board.

We then went through and played various games, Katie was most interested in the aerobic stuff and the balance, neither Yoga nor Weight training appeal to her. I’ve now done stuff in all four categories preferring aerobics and balance as well, though I did enjoy doing some yoga this morning.

One thing we noticed is that you definitely should have your shoes on for the aerobics section if you’re feet are flat. I’m okay going barefoot but K noted her sore feet afterward and so shoes are now required.

It’ll be interesting to see how these 30 days go, today is day 2.