One down side that I see is that after we go through our work out routines we end up doing other things like bowling, golf or shooting some archery. These burn a few more calories, but they are taking me away from some of my Internet time and chores around the house and plant nursery.

The challenge here is going to be like everything else involved with weight loss. Working out on the Wii needs to be part of our lifestyle change and we need to figure out how to incorporate it into everything else we want or need to do in our lives.

So far I am very happy with the Wii fit program and even though Sandy holds some of the top spots in some of the activities… I can live with that… for now

That is if you can call having places on my body hurt that have not hurt in a long time. I would say we both over did it the first time out, but the reason is that it was so damn fun.

We are still learning everything about the program, and many of the features will not be unlocked until we reach different levels in our proficiency, which is kind of a neat feature.

I can see that after we have our fun that it’s going to become important to come up with some kind plan that we work, but this will come latter.

Will this work long term? Time will tell

My first reaction to their purchase, was not too positive… I’m not much into video games and as far as expertise equipment, well lets just say different rooms in the house are littered with everything from treadmills to the latest fade belly buster.

I often said that until they invent a piece of equipment that comes with a little man with a gun that makes you use it every day, that it’s a waste of money for us.

The Christmas tree comes down tonight and the Wii gets set-up. Let’s see where this goes from here!

The answer is Yea using it would really help you lose weight. The problem is most people stop using them after a few weeks if that long.

You see most diet software is designed to track your daily eating and exercise activities. The problem with this is it takes time to do the data entry, and you need to do it every day.

If you’re finding it hard to find the time to take a 30 minute walk how are you going to find time every day to do data entry?

What I found out to be most useful was to use a simple diet software program that I found to help calculate how many calories I could eat per day, if I wanted to lose a certain amount of weight in a certain amount of time.

It take on minute or less to answer the three or four questions it needs to do the calculation and gives you the answer you need to reach your target weight.

If the information you give it is too unrealistic it will tell say “This is unrealistic”.

Once you find out how many calories you should eat per day to lose the weight, you simple tract you calorie intake (on a note pad) for the day, and compare it to your goal. If you eat to many, then you know you need to cut back or up your activities, and you also know your not going to make your target on the date you picked.

This is the simplest diet software you’ll ever use so take a look.

No matter what diet plan you choose it all comes down to two things… calories in and calories burnt, it has always been that simple.

The problem is, its not that easy to figure out how many calories you should consume per day if you want to loose a particular amount of weight in a specific time.

There are a lot of factors that come into play, including age, current weight and activity.  There are formulas to help you figure this out if you are a math major

There are software packages that trainers use that would help you figure this out, but be prepared to spend a hundred dollars or more for this help.

I found a simple little software program that costs less than $8.00 that will tell you exactly how many calories you can eat per day to make your target weight on the date you desire.

You answer three questions and in about two minutes you will know what you need to do to loose the weight you entered into the software.

This software can be used with any diet, because like I said it doesn’t matter what diet you are using it all boils down to calories in and calories burnt.

I have my own thoughts on dieting, but that is for another post.

The software is called Weight Loss Oracle and it costs $7.95 from this link.