Wii Fit is not a game!

It’s a torture device! For an unfit overweight mamma like me, it is.

After I waved the kids off to school this morning, I toasted a bagel and put the coffee on. I hadn’t realised how many calories were in a bagel until I entered it into my daily food diary on the Hairy Bikers’ Diet Club – 232 calories! And that was before I spread a tablespoon of low fat cream cheese and threw in a few sun blushed tomatoes. I still have a lot to learn.

But I had planned to plug in the Wii Fit today and, although I hoped I couldn’t find the controller, there it was, fully charged and ready. I am ashamed to say that it’s been 642 days since I last used it – according to the bouncy Wii Fit Board on the screen. As I haven’t done anything more strenuous than regular housework in a long time, I chose my “favourite” activities (I had no idea!), which happened to be aerobic. I hoola hooped, jogged (very short run) and stepped for 20 very long minutes. Phew! It took it out of me. But there was still the regular housework. including fighting with duvet covers, to be done. I had an empty house and no excuses.

By the time it came round to lunch I was ready for it. Today’s menu included an egg salad – I love egg salad. While the eggs boiled, I sat down and realised too late that I shouldn’t have. My legs seized up! At least, they felt wobbly.

School today was a great success – the boys bounced into the house full of news.But I wasn’t expecting there to be homework on their first day back! For goodness sake, I had exercised, didn’t the teaching staff realise I was suffering?

Yummy mummy I am not, so I grumbled a bit and perhaps tried to rush the spellings and comprehension a bit too quickly. I had a risotto to make before taking No 1 son to Ju Jitsu at 6pm!

It was an easy recipe to follow but, as with all good risottos, it took time. The official dish is “Chicken and Mushroom Risotto” by the Hairy Dieters, but I was concentrating on the mushrooms for myself and adding a sliced up pork fillet to David’s version at the end of cooking. I was using up the pork I didn’t need for last night’s schnitzel recipe.

Mushroom risotto – seemed like too small a portion, but perhaps I’ll add a garden salad next time?

It was delicious, and I don’t normally like risotto. The only downsize was the recipe served 4, so I stuck to that and my portion looked so small and I did feel hungry shortly after. But I kept busy with mum-taxi duty and then came home and did an hour’s worth of ironing.

Eventually it was time to eat again – at last! I’ve just demolished a toasted crumpet with a smidgen of honey. I have no idea (yet) how calorific that is, but I’m going to have to come clean and enter it in my diary.