So this was my last day. My next cycle is sleep.
Up at 6:30, bed at 10pm (sometimes 10:30). Not sure what to do about Fridays. I guess I could allow myself 11pm on those days. I suspect midnight is a bad idea. I won’t have to worry about that until June 11th, though.
So tomorrow, I get up at 6:30am! Should be interesting. :0
Whoa. Totally forgot “today”. No Wii’ing at all. Just caught up in everything else and clean didn’t think about it until it was too late.
On the other hand, I need to start thinking about sleep schedule, for my next cycle: Sleep+Wii. My thoughts are running like this:
I’ve previously estimated I need 7.5 hours of sleep. I have be to up by 6:30 generally, to get myself and daughter to school in a timely fashion. Working backwards from that, I need to be asleep by 11pm, and correspondingly, need to be in bed 10p, perhaps no later than 10:30pm.
The rest of the plan is get up promptly at 6:30, go to bed promptly at 10p, and go to bed at 10:30pm on Thursdays (I doubt i’d make 10, since we have company here until 9:30p on Thursdays).
I didn’t get much Wii’ing in today before I was off to play Crysis with a friend. Nothing too exciting to report, other than I’m nearing the end of this 21 day cycle.
Busy day today. A little homework action in the morning. Then in the afternoon, I went to the Computer Science Presentations, during which I saw two Senior Seminars (Capstones), and was involved in the Software Engineering class’s presentation of their Othello program. They were tasked with writing a network capable Othello program, and then those of us in the Artificial Intelligence class had to write an AI that could play Othello. The plan was before the presentation that our AIs would ‘duke it out’ to determine the best. That didn’t actually go as smoothly as planned, so we didn’t establish definitively whose was the best, but it was generally decided that mine was, so I had to present during SE’s presentation briefly about my AI’s technique.
Then we had company this evening; so yet another “Late Night” Wii. I shoveled the walk, does that help?! 
Another fine day of Wii’ing. I have noticed a change in my balance and such, but not really any dramatic changes in weight. Probably need more bouts with the “run” instead of the yoga.
yay! Today I’m back on track. Put in my time, did it earlier in the day, so it was more successful. Only slightly tired today, so I did a better job overall. I’m busily catching up on everyone’s blogs today, seeing where everyone else is.
So this puts me in the “home-stretch” I think. five days to go, then I’ll be starting Sleep+Wii! No no, not simultaneously, just in the same 21 day cycle.
We had a snow day today. And I don’t really have any school today anyway. So of course, today was pretty much like the weekend…late night wiing, low-enthusiasm. But I did it anyway, didn’t want to miss a day. Course, it made the blogging happen way later as a result.
What can I say. Sunday was likely worse than Saturday. 8:45, 9pm-ish, I start my wiifitting. unenthusiastically, so less exercise, more play than typical. Somewhat worrying, since that kind of sliding off can lead down the ‘road to stopping entirely’, a viscious cycle, it tends to be.
Well well.
Weekends are a challenge for me. I simultaneously want to ‘relax, dude, its the weekend’ and ‘whoa! All this time, imagine what I could get caught up on’.
I get get caught up in stuff and/or sleep in, and get nothing done that I need to.
Today’s my birthday! I’m old today! Yay, I think.
We ate at Q’s restaurant today, one thing led to another, so I ended up another late evening Wiiage…that just doesn’t work very well. Ugh.
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Mostly normal Wii routine today. Put in my 30 minutes. Pushed a little on the push-up challenge, since its one of the few upper-body-muscle-building exercises the Wii has. Additionally, the daily walk was longer than typical, maybe 45m instead of 30? dunno.
Couple of days short of week two complete, eh?
I had a busy day today. School by day, friends visiting in the evening, so I ended up Wii’ing at 10pm. By then I was pretty tired from the day, so I only did about 10 minutes and then went to bed. Eh.
Not too exciting, I think. My morning weigh-in was back down to ‘par’; so no real change has occurred in terms of weight. I realized today that at some point, I got measured for clothes; so if I have that information still, I may be able to have something as a ‘before’ measurement to compare to.
I have to say, jackknife done right makes my stomach hurt.
So the last couple of days, I’ve gone back up in weight. Could be I’ve been getting too much at the cafeteria; but I like to think that I’ve gained muscle instead. No, no, not stomach muscle…arm, leg, abdominal/core muscle.
Maybe.
I can certainly do some of the strength-building exercises further than I could before, which is either attributable to increased muscle or increased flexibility..either way a good thing.
Either that, or I’m a shameless fibber. 
When I wii’d. Did the minimalistic 30 minutes. One thing I adopted entirely last night was replacing some of the strength-building exercises with their “challenge” equivalents. The challenges instead of doing a fixed number of repetitions or time, you go until you give up (or the trainer does, but she gets tougher each day you surpass her).
I feel it gives a better measure of how much you can do for those exercises (push-up, plank, jackknife) than ‘I’ll try basic’ types of things. I suppose I could do ‘basic’ twice, but it isn’t the same as doing 20 consecutively against the trainer.
Whew. Rough day today, in a way. For some reason I didn’t feel sleepy last night, so I channel surfed for longer than I should have, making me up late. Of course, that meant I slept in a while, got started later than I should have with my homework, and then it was time to go to a friend’s grand opening (see Got Camera? on Melagagir for details).
Then dinner with friends, and with one thing and another, it was 8pm before I wii’d. Whew. So I did some basic stuff, put in the minimalist 30 minutes and called it a day.
On the upside, I’m now on day 7, so that’s 1/3rd!
I see on Jennifer’s that she’s hit 21 days today for her first 21 days! That’s awesome. Kinda cool that we’re staggered by two weeks exactly.
Seems like the week usually catches up to me on saturday. I tend to irritable and unethusiastic on Saturdays. I mustered up though, and did about 41 WiiFit minutes. Nothing dramatic, just another day on the Wii.
I can’t say I have too much to report. I was pretty reluctant to get started today, but once I got started, it went okay. I’m ahving to pick and choose now, since there are definitely more exercises than I can do in a reasonable amount of time; I’m limiting myself to around 60 WiiFit minutes per day.
The whole thing seemed tedious today. But I’ve unlocked many things now, so I have lots of options. Too many, in fact. I didn’t feel sore today, so I might need to increase reps on some of the exercises. Relatively un-exciting today.
However, I should note that I installed a plugin that allows readers to turn on notification of when new posts are made (both on this blog and Melagagir). No more checking to see if there is something new, you should be notified.
I did my third Wii session an hour or so ago. If anything I’m tireder and sorer than I was yesterday. For some reason my knees ached all morning, they felt cold and achy. When I did the Basic Run (which was easier than it was yesterday) today, I realized why…the run is a little rough on my knees, they’re not used to it. Wonder if I could just walk it.
Pretty soon, I’ll have to start ‘picking and choosing’ which exercises to do, I’ve begun unlocking enough of them that it’ll start taking more time than I have to do all of them.
I’ve already dropped ‘rhythm boxing’…anything involving rhythm is pretty much a disaster for me, I more or less have some success with the ‘basic step’ but the boxing is just a slapstick comedy done poorly when I do it. Aside from that though, not sure how to make the selection.
I believe Pangie has ‘rewards’ planned at the end of her 21 days, which is making me wonder what I would get if I would employ such a method. For this one, maybe the WiiFit accessory kit (or contrive a cheaper version of the important parts of it, given its somewhat shameless merchandising).
Well, this was surprising. I don’t recall ever having sore muscles when doing Wii before. I attribute this to two things: 1) I’m doing a broader spectrum of exercises (you may recall, I decided to do everything that was unlocked…in fact, in the process I’d unlock something, and add that to my list). 2) I think I am doing the exercises more accurately…so they’re doing the muscles they intended.
Unfortunately, either because of the massive headaches I had today, or the sore muscles, my balance and coordination was a little off.
I forgotten to mention yesterday that In addition to the Wii stuff, I also add my daily walk with Melalvai, and a session of situps (competing with Melalvai there).
Okay. I feel like a lemming, but I’ve become enamored of this idea. Three of my friends are trying this out, and if all the cool kids are doing it, shouldn’t I?
Like everyone, there are lots of things on my radar of things I’d like to do be doing differently. I chatted with Pangie about sleep and exercise; I was tempted to go with sleep because: a) Then I’d be this crazy rebel not doing diet/exercise b) I have this idea that if I could achieve a steady sleeping habit, everything else would fall into line.
However, I also have this Wii. And Balance Board. And WiiFit. Represents significant capital in something I’ve not been using lately. Time to be getting my return on my investment.
So I’m Wii’ing again. I did my first round with it today. When I first ‘logged in’ as it were, it told me “this is your 119th day”. That annoyed me a bit, since I know about half of those 119 days, at most I had weighed in (no exercises), so it seems pointless to track it. So I opted to wipe out my user-profile and re-create it.
That had an interesting side-effect. Because there were things ‘locked out’ that I wanted access to, I did EVERY possible exercise at least once, mainly because I wanted the WiiFit-Minutes, but didn’t want to do the same thing twice.
This meant I tried things (again) that I’d had avoided the first time around. Discovered I’m more able to do this time around (not everything was lost, apparently). The end result was that I worked harder than I had been the last time I was doing WiiFit daily. We’ll see how that goes.