Weight Loss with Nutrisystem and the Wii

Well, just a few months after getting on Twitter, I’ve caved in and got a page on Facebook.  You can visit it here:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Nutwiisystem/289330586187

Haven’t quite decided what I want to do with this page, but as with the Web site, the blog and the Twitter account, it’ll be another place where I share the latest Wii fitness game reviews, news, and deals.

In addition, I may occasionally be giving out some Wii fitness games out to random fans of the page. So visit and Like it today!

You might notice a fresh new look if you’re visiting the blog from http://www.nutwiisystem.com/blog. To make a long story short, I’ve always liked having the blog at this Web address, but Blogger said they would be unable to support it any more.

So I pulled basically an all-nighter last night to move every post, picture, and comment from the old Blogger platform to a shiny new WordPress installation. It was a ton of work, but I’m pretty sure I got everything. I’m actually excited about WordPress, as there’s a ton of stuff I can do now that I couldn’t before.

You may see some strange little hiccups here and there as a result of the migration. Hopefully I’ll be ironing those out as time progresses, but feed free to let me know if you have any suggestions.

Thanks for reading and for all the kind words you’ve all given me over these months. I look forward to many more Wii workouts with you. And there are definitely some good things coming

In case you haven’t seen it, at long last the list of Top 10 Wii Fitness games is updated. Hop on over and see who the new king of the hill is

In the coming few weeks, keep an eye out for reviews on Ubisoft’s Just Dance and Konami’s Walk It Out!

So, after months of putting it off, I finally decided to set up a Twitter account. If you’d like to follow me, just go here:

http://twitter.com/nutwiisystem

Of course, I’ll still be maintaining the ever-popular lists of Best Wii Fitness Games, Best of the Rest, and Worst Wii Fitness Games on www.nutwiisystem.com, and you’ll be sure to find the latest reviews on the blog. But I’ll also be Tweeting some great deals I come across for Wii exercise games, as well as interesting news and tidbits I come across. Enjoy!

Hi everyone. I’ve got a little favor to ask.

As we all know, Wii exercise is great but so is regular exercise. And so, I decided to sign up for the MS Bike Tour in New York City. It’ll be a 66-mile bike ride around Manhattan. I did this in 1999 and 2005, and I figured it was about time to do it again. It might interest some of you to know that this is the year I turn the big four-oh, and so it’s a way for me to prove to myself that I can still be fit with the best of them.

As part of the commitment to ride, I’ve also committed to raising money to fight MS. MS is a debilitating disease. There are those who can’t ride a bike, can’t play video games, and live their lives in pain. For those of us who can, please consider a generous donation. You can visit my donation page here.

As thanks for those who donate through this site, I’ll be giving away, to three of you whom I’ll select randomly, one of the Wii Fitness Games featured on this site. And even if you’re not selected, your contribution is 100% tax-deductible.

Thanks much, and now back to your regularly scheduled blog…

Steve

The Center for Disease Control reports the staggering figure that 66.3% of American adults are either overweight or obese. A recent study by Johns Hopkins projects that by 2030, 86% of Americans will be overweight or obese.

I’m one of those American adults. Chances are you are too.

There’s an entire industry of people selling diet books, low-fat foods, exercise videos, exercise equipment, and gym memberships. And yet, we are fatter than ever.

How did it come to this? It comes down to one thing: bad habits.

I was shocked a few weeks ago when someone posted a picture of me when I was in high school on Facebook. I was thin as a stick. But since the end of high school and continuing now for 20 years let’s just say my peanut butter has been on the chunky side. I can’t say I’ve been morbidly obese, but I’ve been a good 30 pounds over what all medical experts say I’m supposed to be.

I’ve started and stopped exercise programs and diets about twice each year for the last 20 years. Gyms didn’t work for me, because it was hard to get to one, I’d be too mentally tired at the end of the day to exercise, and they were just so danged expensive. Diets didn’t work for me, because my career kept me so busy that I didn’t have time to prepare the right meals–I’d just go out and grab whatever I could at the local fast food restaurant.

Two things happened last year. First of all, I bought my nieces and nephew a Wii. When I played it with them, I had a ton of fun with them. It was only afterwards that I noticed that my heart was pumping and I was sweating more than I would after a great workout.

Second, I kept hearing and hearing the commercials for Nutrisystem on ESPN radio, and I finally decided to look into it. As gimmicky as the commercials are, it all started to make sense. I tended to skip breakfast and sometimes I’d even skip lunch, thinking that this would help me lose weight. It never did, because my metabolism slowed to a crawl and I’m sure I would subconsciously gorge at dinner time. I don’t have time to control my own portion sizes, so why not have someone do it for me?

And so, I decided to start the “Nutwiisystem” diet and exercise regimen. In this blog, I’ll be tracing my own progress with a new regimen of diet and exercise with Nutrisystem and the Wii. In it, I’ll tell you details about both what I’m eating and how much I’m exercising. I’ll also chart my progress of weight loss, with a goal of getting to my target weight of 175.

Oh yes. There will be no pictures of my belly on this site. We all don’t need to see that.

Sit back and enjoy!