Unfortunately, The Biggest Loser is now on break and the current season is over. To keep up my motivation I decided to download some weight loss podcasts. Jillian Michaels has one called...wait for the totally unique name...The Jillian Michaels Show. A lot of it is incredibly long intros, outros, and segment breaks along with her joking about completely random things with the person I assume is her producer. But interspersed amongst the unnecessary stuff is some actual really good material. On one I just listened to she had her mom, JoAnn McKarus, a psychotherapist who works with people with eating disorders among other issues, on to talk about compulsive overeating. In two others she talked about weight loss myths and why they were myths and not reality. At the end of every podcast she takes a call from someone and answers questions. It's all very informative and I'm really liking listening to them.
I bought this game a while back. Like, years back. I used it a couple times, but didn't really do anything with it. This past week I had a moment that Jillian would call a "come to Jesus" moment. I work at a salon and as I was blow drying a little girl's hair I was shaking my wrist to move the hairdryer back and forth so it wouldn't stay in one spot and burn her. As I was doing that I realized that my wrist and the hairdryer weren't the only things shaking....so were my "wings" as I've heard them so eloquently called, i.e. my flabby upper arm. Ew. Yeah, gross, right? Totally. It was then that I realized that eating right to lose weight was great, but that wasn't going to help my "wings" disappear or help me get the shape that I want. I immediately went home and set up a new fitness program on this game.
There's good and bad things about this game. Some of the good things are that it takes you through a workout to assess your fitness level and then tailor a workout to you. It also lets you track your calorie intake, works with you on your nutrition as well as your physical activity, and has some really fun and neat challenges like the ones they do on the show. Some of the bad things include that you can pick how many days you work out each which but it doesn't allow you to choose which days, and it uses the Wii remote to sense your movements and track if you're doing the moves. Some of the moves, like jump rope, tire jumps, and others that ask you to put the remote in your pocket, don't sense that you're doing the move even if you are so you get a bad score on it or the game thinks you weren't doing anything at all during that move. That part annoys me so very much, but I've learned to just roll my eyes and move on.
With the game you can pick whether you want Bob, Jillian, or both to be your trainer. Bob uses that soothing sweet voice of his to say things like, "Your personal goal is where you want to be and you don't get there by sitting on the couch." Jillian says things like, "I know what you're thinking - you're dying, it hurts, wah wah wah! Do you want to be skinny or not?!" Jillian's a little harsh but there's just something so satisfying when you do one of the exercises and she says, "I'm impressed!" or "You make me proud!" It makes me think, "Aww, I'm making Jillian proud. I should keep going!" Is that sad? Haha. Whatever motivates, right?
TheBiggest Loser is what helps motivate me to keep going, eat right, and exercise. What motivates you guys to keep going?
