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There are different types of fat person. Some of them look like corks, some like an uneven letter 'P' and some of them look like they're a skinny guy with a basketball in his shirt. Based on my weight gain over the last 10 years or so and the places where the fat has settled, it looks like I am destined to be that last type of fat person... if I don't do something about it. My recent purchase of Wii Fit Plus is me taking charge of my weight. Plus my wife was wanting it, and who am I to deny her something that I know I can use, too? A purchase it was, then. Once we got the system home, it naturally sat on the side of the living room for a few days before we opened it. After all, we didn't walk into our weight issues. That would've taken too much effort. Did you really suppose that we'd expend the energy it requires to set the thing up on the same day that we bought it? Lazy people have their limits. Eventually, though, the package was unboxed and we worked through setting up our own profiles. It's a simple process that took each of us about three or four minutes. The game weighs you, accepts whatever height you tell it as gospel truth and gives you some facts about your current health situation. I'll skip telling you what it said about my wife, but I can safely tell you what it said about me: "Lose some weight, tubbo!" Only it didn't say it quite like that. It told me that although I'm 31, I have the physique of a 36-year-old. Though I've weighed 178 pounds or so for most of the last 5 years, I really ought to weigh closer to the 140 pounds that were considered dangerously thin when I was in high school. As for my balance, I tend to put more of my weight on the right side than the left one. This was all good inforation, but it was stuff that for the most part I already knew. Seeing 5 hypothetical years slip by due to my sloth was a bit disconcerting, though. If I live to be 70, I'd like to do so without the body of a 75-year-old. Following the sobering reality check, the game gave me options for training. In the following nights, I came to learn that these are self-regulated business. If I'm feeling lazy, I don't have to do anything. The game won't force me to. It'll just weigh me, provide some health tips and then watch me in silent disapproval. If I want to take a more proactive approach to living past 50, though, there are options that range from balance exercises to aerobics and general workouts. The first night that I was ready to start exercising in a major way, I stepped onto the scale in cargo pants. "You're going to want to change before you start," my wife informed me. I humored her by changing into sweatpants before I began playing, then found out how right she was as I struggled just to perform a set of six pushup exercises. When I finished, the game sympathetically told me that maybe I'm not ready for those just yet. When I just barely completed all five balance efforts in a single routine, it also asked me if I have trouble walking and sometimes trip over things. The game can be insulting sometimes. I need to hear those things, though. I have 35 pounds to lose and they're not going to lose themselves. Tough love from plastic and my television screen can't hurt too much. Plastic and my television screen are a large part of what got me into this fix in the first place!

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