My first experiences with Wii Fit have been limited, but all horrible.

My parents own it, and have gotten yelled at by the thing for having bad balance, for missing days, for not meeting goals, etc. Yes, yelled at. And because I was the gift-giver of the meanie-pants game, I get yelled at, too.

“Amy, it says I’m too wobbly! What am I doing wrong??”

I tried playing once at a friend’s house, but that whole wobbly business must be hereditary, because I couldn’t shift my weight in the correct way during hula hooping to catch the hula hoops.

Naturally so, when I decided to try it for my fitness experiment, I was fairly worried about my results.

My major problem with all forms of fitness? Keeping my attention. I get bored running. I get bored ellipticalizing. I haven’t tried Carmen Electra’s strippercise, but I think I’d get bored with that, too.

So give the A.D.D. workout girl your best, Wii Fit.

I start with a bunch of tests to figure out my “Wii Fit age.” They test my body-mass index (20.35, according to the Wii Fit. That’s “normal”), then my balance. I feel like I’ve got some pretty good balance, but yet again, I was wrong. Finally, my Wii Fit age: 38.

Wait, what? 38?? Seriously? Yeah, you don’t know ANYTHING, you stupid machine. Um…yeah, so, I’m not going to pretend like I didn’t yell that same sentence at my TV.

So I decide to cheat and try it again. I couldn’t handle the Wii Fit telling me I was 12 years older than I actually was. Plus, I didn’t know what I was doing the first time. That’s my excuse. At any rate, the second time got me a 28. I’ll take it.

Then I had to set a goal. I set a goal to lose 3 pounds in two weeks. Start low, right?

Finally, after all this business working up to it, I got to start actually doing something. I start with the soccer ball game; I have to shift my weight on the Wii Fit balance board to hit soccer balls with my head. I also have to dodge shoes (who throws shoes?) and panda bear heads (who throws..nah, nevermind). I scored a terrible, terrible 15 points on the first try.

That’s when the self-competitor in me woke up and wouldn’t tolerate such a terrible score. So I played it again. And again. And again. And that’s all I did during the first day of my Wii Fit. I can’t say it gave me a cardiovascular workout, but it was fun.

Next stop tomorrow? Yoga.