I have to share about this. First some background. I hate exercising, always have. I've tried joining gyms, taking classes (yoga, tai chi, swimming), and do enjoy some aspects of these classes, but detest so many other aspects that eventually I stop going (things like walking on ice and snow or in rain to get there in the first place, having to dress, undress, shower in public, not to mention publicly display my total ineptitude at everything). It hasn't helped that for a couple of years I've had some measure of social anxiety. So, put it all together, and exercising has been the one big failure in my life.

BUT NOT ANYMORE! I splurged at Christmas, and bought myself a Wii and Wii Fit. I cannot adequately describe how perfect this machine is for me in addressing every quirk and issue I've had with "going out" to exercise. I can do it right here in my own home, in my comfy clothes; I do it at my pace; Wii Fit gives me my own personal trainer (though admittedly, he's vocabulary-challenged, repeats the same things over and over...but I can handle that while looking at those rippling muscles - an added bonus I didn't expect!)

Anyway, I'm enjoying exercising so much that I actually look forward to it every day. And have been putting in anywhere from 30-55 minutes every afternoon (and doing some of the stretching, balancing exercises throughout the day as well).

I feel better, not only physically (I no longer look four months pregnant), but also mentally, because I feel really good about persevering...it's the longest I've ever gone with any exercise program. It's fun, makes me laugh, it's diverse. I'm doing strength training, balance (my balance is terrible - I never realized it before!), yoga and aerobic exercises, all wrapped in fun games.

I don't mean to gush, but I'm sharing this here because this little white box was well worth every penny I spent. For anyone who has any kind of social anxiety and can't get out to exercise in public venues, this might be the answer.

And no, I don't work for the company. I just like sharing something that works for me after years and decades of feeling like a failure for not finding a way to exercise on a regular basis.

I can even touch my toes now! Without bending my knees!

And I must gush a bit more about this wonderful toy, too. In addition to all of the fun exercises on Wii Fit, we also have the Wii sports. This also is a fun way to get in some exercise.

I have never been a game girl. The only time I have played video games is when my nephew was a young boy and he had a Nintendo. But this is a whole different experience.

Nintendo has done a marvelous thing for this country. Getting people, even us oldsters, off the couch and moving. I even had my mom and dad playing with us over Christmas.

I LOVE my Wii!!

and i love his wii too i even got some well one adult game (tomb raide) for christmass, ah to as agile as lara crogft, maybee eagle but not me lol.

someone will have to explaine the rules of baseball as i keep getting foul balls and i don't know what iv done wrong!!! Thats my only christisisum of the game lol.

have you tried the boxing, i can't or could't flapp my arms for that long BUT i can now but L still beats me lol.
I am bad at gold but great at bowling lol.

Celtic, I haven't tried many of the Sports game yet. Just the bowling. I also bought Wii Play, and that's the one that I'm exploring when I'm not using the Wii Fit.

Wii Play has some fun games on it. I just went fishing this afternoon, and played billiards (but I'm having difficulty figuring out how to get the Wii to recognize my remote movements for billiards - maybe it's the same sort of problem you're having with baseball). And I finally figured out level five (or six?) of "Find the Mii" - that one had me baffled (the level where you have to find the two odd ones.) Once I figured it out, I got all the way up to level 17!

It's so nice now to have options for those little stretches of time where I don't want to just veg, but I don't want to tackle housework either...it's providing the "fun" outlet that's been missing for so long.

Is Wii the thingy where you can interact with the TV screen, like being a bowler for instance, or play baseball, tennis etc.?

Yes. In most games, you hold a little remote in your hand (or you can buy extra gadgets like the golf club, baseball bat, fishing rod, etc) and you move it to perform the action...for example, you actually have to crouch down and move your arm as if you're bowling.

The Wii Fit is a little different. It has a board that you stand on and you do the exercises/play while standing on the board, and the Wii records your movements, then tells you how good (or bad) you're doing. Most of my Wii Fit experience (so far) has a lot to do with balancing the body and/or shifting my balance properly in order to perform the exercise/game (one of my current favourites is where I'm a penquin and I have to shift my body balance in such a way as to catch enough fish).

It's no wonder I'm in so much discomfort - my balance is so out-of-whack, it must be putting pressure on my spine, feet and affecting other parts of me as well. The Wii is teaching me how to balance properly, and how to relax my muscles (they're always in knots).

I want one. Wii = F-U-N

queen the are definatlie fun,

eagle when playing billards you got to pull back and let go of B BUT stay on the same level....as you go forwared to strick the ball. your cross at top of wii remote changes the angel.

i think i am swinging to earlie or late for the basball, as i asked a canadian frend who said i had to bat the ball within the v shape , spo it must be too earlie or latre with my swing, L given a day was exilent and i think its great for his sense of deept perseption but more importantlie his fine and gross motor skills, co-ordinmasion and timming.
we play sonic and sonic unleshed and piratyeds of the caribiane, its sword fencing but still active as you got to do stuff in the games.

I hardlie got to watch tv over christmass lol he's on the compter gettting change to right amount to play songs on a juke box, so he dose't work out he's learning counting lol.

so wii fr fun computer for learning. I am saving for the balance board and either the snowboarding game, or wee fit. its about £60.00 heer so its quite a lot. I also want the familie game mat which is about £50-£60 too worth it but quite an investment.

EAGLE

reading some of your post about your eye sight when a child, L has to ear glasses all the time now and he's hospital visitses once a mounth at the moment to mesure his stigmatisum, its as bad as mine but he's so young. I never relise how much it could effect him untill reading your posts, he fightes me in taxie everymorning for first week about weering his glases, his frend told him he looked yuckie, now he's all eyes looking about himself proparlie seeing for first time the top of trees at other side of embankment of the rever, he's actulie stop preotesting now as i think he prefaires look of world in focus lol.

just wanted to tell you that, and i din't know it effect coulers and such, to such a degree.

eagle how did you work out or what is the system for recognising the other mii'S i still at a low level

put i can reliable do 100 on ping pong