So, I bought Wii Fit last week. I have been using it every day and I actually feel better.
Now, whether or not I lose those final few kilograms I have been meaning to get rid of is another thing all together. But I just feel better. Hell, sometimes I feel as “good” as I do when drunk off my ass, but I have been able to accomplish this without alcohol at all.
Utter insanity!
But getting my body moving a bit more than normal has been doing wonders. And it is all thanks to technolomogy.
I mean, riding a bike is one thing. Stretching is another. Actually physical exercise is in a league of its own. I don’t know if I mind doing them per se, but when you give me daily charts and graphs and percentages and just numbers to monitor on a daily basis, I get a mental hard on. It’s like I have a status page from an RPG for my fat. It entices me to do things that I would never consider otherwise.
Bizarre motivation, to be sure. But I’ll take it!
Yeah, this is totally how I became OCD about nutrition. Got myself a good scale, a nutrition tracking program: http://spaz.ca/cronometer, and then some strategy guides about nutrition(aka pub-med articles, and Mayo clinic/Harvard nutritional pages) and all of a sudden I went from eating ice cream for as my sole energy source to eating massive amounts of vegetables/lentils and olive oil/ protein powder as my only food.