It's A Trade Off

For a couple of weeks now I've been using the Wii Fit at least once a day for a half hour. I call it my "Wiirkout." Yes, I'm a dork, but that's what I call it.

Well, I've also been keeping track of my weight, because the Wii Fit is nice enough to keep track of all that for me. Today, I gained weight. Really, the weight-loss thing isn't going so great. I'm yo-yoing. Granted, I've lost 8 lbs from the beginning, and seem to be at a point where I'm not gaining any of THAT back, but it's depressing to see a 1.2 lb gain when I did two wiirkouts yesterday, and thought I was pretty good with the amount I ate.

There's a trade-off, however.

Sure, the weight isn't really coming off as I thought it would, and I have to lose 7.4 lbs in less than 2 weeks to meet my goal, but I'm noticing that I'm better at individual exercises than I was before.

For example, I've been doing the "Free Step" exercise a lot lately, which is kind of a waste of a $100 piece of equipment, but so be it. Essentially, it counts my steps for a half hour while I step on and off it continuously while watching television. The Wiimote counts out the beat that I'm supposed to walk to. I did this today, and didn't break out in a sweat until about halfway through, whereas when I first did this the sweating would start within the first minute or two.

So, I'm not losing weight, but I'm pretty sure I'm getting into better aerobic shape. Hopefully I'm gaining a little muscle I didn't have before starting all this, which will increase my overall fitness and metabolism, thus making it easier to lose weight. It's a hope, anyway.

How To Annoy Me

These people have a voice-over on their site that you can't turn off. It starts every time you reload a page; an ad for the company that owns the website you're viewing. That's right, as you're looking at their pricing and services, they are trying to sell you over your speakers. You're already there!

I was going to send a polite email to them and tell them that this could be driving away business, and at the very least is driving me away, that I couldn't even be bothered to continue looking through their site, because it annoyed me that much. Then, as I got halfway through politely suggesting ways to handle this (things like including a "turn sound off" button would be perfect) the ad says something along the lines of "We take to heart the phrase 'You never get a second chance to make a good first impression.'" I laughed, because they had already lost that chance with me.

Then, as I was including something about how ironic that was in the email I was writing (because, honestly, I was starting to not care so much and was feeling a little snarky) the voice over said "please continue to hold and one of our specialists will be right with you."

They were playing their hold "music" over their website.

Oh. My. God.

I ended the email with a "never mind. After what I just heard, I realized you're hopeless."

EDIT: The owner wrote back to politely tell me that they were removing the audio, and that "maybe next time {I} shouldn't be so rude." He was a nice enough guy, so I wrote back a quick "You're right, sorry. Thank you for taking my thoughts into consideration."