Day 15: O is for Ouch, Our Room Back and Obesity

Ouch: So I've been in the gym today because i'm still trying to recover my legs from their mystery injury. I have my "calorie equivalency" worked out for converting alternative exercises into running and god it's depressing.  I tried a really strange new machine that they've got which looks like a cross trainer but is a bit wierdly different and is crossed with a step machine or something. It was really really hard work but the number of calories it claimed to be burning was *rubbish* - I was going really hard and only managed 120 in 10 minutes which is waaaaay less than I would manage running, at a significantly higher "perceived effort". So I ditched that for the bike, which has similar problems with lack of calories but at least you get to sit down :-)
After all that effort but without getting enough calories on the chart, I decided to sneakily try a 1 mile jog on the treadmill to see how my legs would feel, and see how many calories that racked up.  Well in 10 minutes i did 140 calories and that was with virtually no effort. I could feel the legs start to hurt again though so I stopped and ran them under a very cold shower for 5 minutes in the hope that I could limit any damage. We'll see about that tomorrow.

Our Room Back (maybe?):  The little baby lumpy badger has been evicted! Tonight after I gave him his 8 o'clock feed, instead of putting him into the bouncy cot by our bed, I put him into the Big Cot in his Own Bedroom! (Mrs Badger put it a bit more harshly). This could usher in a new period of additional sleep, or it could go the other way and make it impossible to sleep at all.  One thing's for sure, though - if he stays in there then Mrs Badger will be getting quite a lot more "Special Cuddles" :-)

Obesity: I got Mrs Badger a Wii Fit Plus for christmas (because she asked for it, I am so romantic!) and for various reasons we didn't get around to plugging it in until today.  It tells me that I ought to lose 1 stone 7lb!!!!!  And it says I have a "Balance Age" 11 years older than me! - mind you I did get to "Professional" level on ski jumping so it's not all wrong.
It even has - and here's where we will be putting it to use - an option to register your pets!  If you've been following, I mentioned in a previous post that we have a cat, called Mog, who is now on a diet.  Below are a few more pics of her (pre-diet). I am going to add her to Janathon using the Wii.

So ... difficult ... to ... get ... up.

Attempting to induce some exercise

Hilarious iPhone-based commentary

Result of informing Mog of our diet plans for her.

Janathon Stats:

Today:  Bike 11.1km / 20 min, Cross Trainer: 10 min, Sneaky Run: 1 mile (1.6km) 10:07, Total cals: 527

[Run equivalency calculation: ]

Today: 7.63km / 4.74 miles

Total: 79.43km / 49.35 miles