This is exactly why I can’t get my hubby (or myself) to exercise without some goal more specific than ‘lose however pounds’ in mind. The 100 pushups program is working for us, off and on, and we actually got most of the way through the Couch to 5k running program before I twisted my ankle (and Hubby, of course, just couldn’t run alone =P). We started that again a few days ago. The Wii Fit too, with it’s goals and counting of time makes things a lot more fun.

I am actually writing a post on home exercise equipment, and I just realized…maybe it is all just to justify my need for a Wii…..

Yes, my gamer husband and I “tweak” on Weight Watchers and it DOES feel like a game! We allow ourselves to use the weekly points on a binge-fest once every week, and we plan out carefully what we want that week. However, it is fun to find ways to make our favorites lower in points the rest of the week! You can “tweak” recipes by lowering fat, lowering calories, or increasing fiber (by adding vegetables). So you can actually lower the points of scrambled eggs, or at least keep them the same, by adding spinach or other veggies!

You do have to be careful when tweaking, though. Eating 10 zero-point snacks does NOT equal 0 points.

You can also turn exercise into a game. In my karate class yesterday we did this. We drew cards and did that number of pushups, with different types of pushups for each suit. (Everyone groaned when the instructor drew an ace for 15, a 10, and another 10 in a row!)

Then after class we all stood in a circle and played catch with a medicine ball, then came up with different endurance exercises and saw how long we could do them and how hard we could make them.

If my eighth-grade gym-class dropout self saw me now, she just wouldn’t believe it.