"Too busy to work out yesterday, eh, Tom?"

Don't start with me, Balance Board™. I will box you faster than a One boxes a Three. Which I'm tempted to do anyway when I flub my balance test and am told that my Wii Fit Age™ is up to 43. But I seem to be down a couple of pounds.

It's a real chore to go through these exercises again, especially without any program beyond "do everything once". At this point, I have no desire to try to get a better score, because I see how it's all a matter of gaming the Balance Board™. I've lost interest in trying to hold the little red dot in the shaded area. I'm just trying to get a little cardio, to do a little yoga, and instead I concentrate on an exhausting subgame that's like trying to center a marble on an upside-down bowl. So today, instead of using the Balance Board™, I simply call up the menu for the yoga exercises, kick the Balance Board™ off to one side, and turn the volume down. I then do the poses on the non-judgmental comfort of my carpeted floor.

Later, as I'm going through the menus to credit myself for the yoga in the Activity Log, the Balance Board™ asks if I want to take the Ultimate Balance Test™. I do not. In fact, at this point, I'm not even remotely curious what that is. Just over half-way through my two week quest to lose five pounds, and it seems I've identified the biggest obstacle: Wii Fit™.