“It’s Halloween,” the Wii said to mii. “Have you been eating candy?”<\/p>\n
I refused to answer. Of course I’ve been eating candy.<\/p>\n
“You’ve gained 1.5 pounds since yesterday,” the Wii said. “Do you know why?”<\/p>\n
Fortunately, the Wii has no human feelings of outrage at having its controller thrown in its face. Of course, I know why, but I’d really rather you don’t ask.<\/p>\n
When I told the Wii I didn’t know, it suggested I might have a slow metabolism and prescribed some strength training exercises to speed things along. I ignored the advice and did a few stretches and 20 minutes of jogging in place, which the Wii was kind enough to display as circling a park.<\/p>\n
Every time I forgot what I was doing and slowed down, my brother’s avatar passed me on the track. I’m going to have to talk to the Wii about this vindictive attitude it has.<\/p>\n
Lesson learned: Don’t do a Wii fitness test on a holiday that is centered around the consumption of candy.<\/p>\n
Here’s hoping we all manage to jog off the Halloween candy before the Thanksgiving pies hit us right back where that came from all over again.<\/p>\n
Lesson learned: Adjust diet goals to fit reality when entering the holiday season.<\/p>\n
I hope I can keep up my diet. I really do. But sometimes it’s just rude to not eat a candy corn cup cake.<\/p>\n
I told the Wii I wanted to lose 10 pounds in the next 2 months. I have a feeling I’m in for a lot of e-nagging if I don’t delete that goal soon–Thanksgiving and Christmas both fall in this time frame. It will be a test of character to see how long I go without deleting my goal and pretending I meant all along that I just wanted to avoid gaining 10 pounds.<\/p>\n
I’ll let you know how that goes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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