Recently, Sean and I purchased a Wii and before I even knew what hit me I was up and moving around in ways that I hadn’t in quite some time. By default the console comes with 5 sports games, I spent most of last night Boxing to work off a lot of aggression and apparently 2 more pounds as of this mornings weigh in. It’s been almost a week since my last weigh in but something today told me that I needed to hop on the scale and validate that feeling in the pit of my stomach.

Knowing full well that the Wii can’t give me everything I was looking for, I’ve been poking around the net looking for exercise equipment and came across fitness-superstore.co.uk. They have everything from rowing machines to elliptical cross trainers and exercise bikes. Everything is reasonably priced, based on a trusty currency converter so I could see what the US based prices would be. I would love to own an exercise bike though, considering the very long walks I’m sure my legs can handle an hour or so a day on a bike.

For a while now I’ve been waiting on the main office of the community to get the club house up and running. They’ve been telling the residents for the last two years that they were going to have both the gym and the pool setup by early 2007. That came and went. The club house is standing, the hole for the pool has been dug out and even some parts of it are completed as far as laying cement is concerned but now there’s a notice telling us that we can take our community card and go to their sibling community just to use their pool. However, we’re still unable to get into the club house to use the equipment. It’s not even in there at the moment though so that makes the building completely useless to us.

This is why Sean and I spend so much time walking because joining a gym in a resort community is just priced way too high for us and at the same time, there aren’t any major fitness chains surrounding us either. I wouldn’t mind Bally’s or even Jenny Craig for that matter. Both of those chains have a pretty major following, minus the fact that they’re rather pricey as well.

But, I’ve been doing very well with just food portions and exercise. I am considering purchasing an exercise bike though, I just need to figure out where exactly I plan on placing it. The house is loaded up enough as is. I know I’m marrying him and all but would it be wrong to get rid of his side of the office so I could put in a small gym there? heh.