One week down, one week to go. Yesterday I was on fire. I’d done an hour on the Wii before 10 o’clock! It was also a great day in terms of eating the right stuff. My prediction is that I will lose 3 pounds in the 2 weeks I’ve set myself. Keeping in mind that I didn’t really have that much to lose anyway it should show to you that a calorie controlled diet and using the Wii Fit can help you lose weight.
So yesterday I started with my usual breakfast cereal. For lunch I had a big bowl of cereal. My dinner was Spaghetti Bolognaise, not a sausage in sight today! I’m happy to report that I did get the portion size down. That’s my biggest struggle with dieting. I had 2 cups of tea in the evening but for the rest of the day only drank water. I reckon I drank 6 pints of the stuff.
1 x bowl of rice crispies = 210 cals
1 x large bowl of cornflakes = 300 cals
1 x spaghetti bolognaise = 850 cals
2 x cups of tea = 70 cals
Total calories for yesterday = 1430
Seeing as how I’m now working from home I could do my exercise early in the day. Just to try something new I thought I’d have a go on the Tennis game on Wii sports, just to see if it was an effective way of burning calories. I’m pretty good at it, I’m ranked at about 1800 points. The game went on much longer than I’d planned, nearly 25 minutes before I eventually toppled my level 1900 computer opponents. I’m sorry to report though that according to my Polar heart monitor (and even with all the jumping around I do whilst playing) it doesn’t really burn that much, about 40 calories in that 20 minutes. It’s better than sitting on your arse doing nothing but it’s not really going to help you lose weight. With the experiment out of the way I worked my way through my routine on the Wii Fit. A round the island run followed by 2 lots of expert boxing (10 minutes each), 6 minutes hula and the 2 sets of 6 press-ups. Including the Tennis I burnt 543 calories.
It was a great start to my second week. I consumed 1430 calories and burnt 2100 + 543 = 2643 calories. Total calorie deficit for yesterday was 1213, my best day yet. You might think with that sort of difference that I was probably starving all day. Not at all. I drink almost thought the whole day, I really enjoy my dinner but at no point do I feel anything more than usual hunger, and even that’s from about 4 o’clock onwards as I get ready for my dinner.
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