Lately, life has been busy. Trying to organize life into manageable bites rather than huge chunks has been helping, but it is still a work in progress. One of the things that has been severely getting me down lately... my weight gain.
Yes, I know, I'm pregnant, so gaining weight is to be expected. That said, I only ever gained 25 lbs with each of my kids. I've already gained 24 lbs with this pregnancy, and I have at least 12 weeks to go. Yikes! Considering that I'm gaining at a rate of over 1.5 lb per week... well... I'm not happy with the 40+ lbs that I'll likely be putting on over this 9 month period.
Anyway, weight aside, I do feel pretty good. I tire much more quickly than before, and I'm finding I do not have the strength or energy to do half the stuff I want to, which is disappointing at best, but I'll live. I started trying to exercise on a rather regular basis using my Wii Fit Plus game once again. Started up in June, but not so regularly until September. I love looking at that graph and seeing all the colorful lines showing how much 'exercise' I've been doing. Halfway through September I pulled out my step counter from my Personal Trainer Walking DS game. It didn't take long for me to remember why I had put it away in the first place.
That thing makes me feel LAZY!
I know that I tend to not walk as 'hard' as some people, and it does say that it will not register as well if you are bare foot (which is usually the case as I spend most of my walking in the house) but when you pace the entire duration of a half hour conversation on the phone, and your usual walking pace is about 100 steps per minute, to only have the thing register about 100 steps is a huge disappointment. Even worse, since almost none of my maternity 'home' pants have any pockets, that means clipping the thing to my waistband... which is not level and contributes to the problem of not reading my steps. Even my workout steps where I jog for 10+ minutes were not registering correctly. I have a pedometer on the 3DS as well, which I hold in my hand while I jog, and it was registering twice the steps the clip-on was. Double. And when I would count my steps, they were right in line with the 3DS.
So what is the problem with that silly little piece of technology? Or... is it me?
I read reviews, tried to find troubleshooting recommendations, nothing helped. Most everyone loved the little device and found it to be accurate to their steps. My day would end, I'd feel exhausted and as though I walked plenty, only to see that the counter was still flashing red at me... set at 5000 steps. What? I hadn't reached 5000 steps? Checking it on the DS would make me see red in more ways than that little light provided... 3000 steps. That was it. I exercised for half an hour (I try to do 30 minutes each weekday on the Wii Fit), 10-15 minutes of that was jogging, walked my daughter to the bus and went to pick her up, paced while on the phone, cleaned and vacuumed in my 2 story house with basement... and still only 3000 steps?!?!
Needless to say, in my pregnant hormonal state I started to cry, and my poor husband could not figure out why a little piece of electronics would bother me so much. Yeah... I'm a bit of a 'goal' person. I wanted that thing to turn green every day. I work for it. It motivates me... but now it was making me feel like I was lazy.
After a good night sleep, I realized I needed to make a change. I'd been using this thing for well over a month now with poor results (unless I was walking outside, then it was fine) and I did not wish to wear shoes in the house. It was depressing. So, I changed where I clipped the thing. Hips? Nah... my hips apparently don't move up and down enough when I walk. So... what moves up and down enough?
Socks.
Yup... my solution was to put the thing on my sock.
I admit, I was a little worried I'd lose it, but it actually has been staying pretty well! It's been there for a week now, and I must say, I definitely feel better about the step counts I've been getting! I matched it pretty well to my 3DS on the workouts, and my mornings (which I feel like a crazy woman running about trying to get breakfast on the table and my daughter out the door for the bus) is registering closer to 1000 steps in under 2 hours vs the 200 it gave me before! I actually upped my step target to 6000 last night as I finally met the 'quota' the entire week! And I'm only about 100 steps from that point by noon today (and I have yet to vacuum the house)! Most of my days this week registered 6000-7000 steps in the day, and that is without me TRYING to get more steps into my day compared to what it was prior to changing where I clipped this thing.
So while I still hate that my weight is on such a steady incline, at least I feel like I'm doing something about it (and maybe, just maybe, some of that weight is increased muscle mass *wink*).
Now with that aside... WHY can't they have a pregnancy option on the Wii Fit Plus? I KNOW I'm not 'borderline overweight' as I'm expecting a baby, but really! (and I heard the Wii Fit U doesn't have that option either. Seriously, Nintendo... Moms want to use this thing, and we have other reasons to 'gain weight' than 'snacking all day').
;)
At least I will get the satisfaction of that little balance board freaking out at my two day drop of 10+ lbs at once, hahaha.
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