Lunch and Late Afternoon Workout

So I had lunch, received a shiny new package, and hit the balance board this afternoon.

For lunch, I had Pasta with Beef.  It was a pretty decent lunch, and I headed on to my fun and exciting new package.

I had some gift certificates from my birthday, and I decided to put them towards a Polar heart rate monitor watch (with chest strap).  I used it during my workout today, and I think I've pretty much got it figured out, but there are plenty of more advanced functions I need to play with.  The thing I was most curious about was comparing my Wii Fit calories to what the HRM measured.

Wii Fit Plus 
Today's Time: 1:54 Minutes
Today's Calories: 907


Polar HRM
Calories Burned: 1530
Max Heart Rate: 164
Avg Heart Rate: 125

Now, I took a few breaks where I couldn't figure out how to turn off the HRM, so those skewed my numbers on AVG heart rate down a bit, and the calories up by (as near as I can figure) around 200, so it's more like 1300 Calories Burned.  Still, that's 400 more than the blasphemous Nintendo games machine was telling me, so I'm going to go ahead and call this a good investment in self encouragement.  I know looking down at the little bastard on my wrist and seeing that I'd dropped below 140 made me work harder, so it's gotta be a good thing.

I have unboxing photos/some information if you're considering an HRM/running computer that I couldn't figure out until I took the plunge and had one in my sweaty little hands that I'll put together in an entry sometime either tonight or in the next week.  I kind of want more time to play with it before I go around spreading my diabolical misinformation.  The one thing I'll mention is I had no idea what I needed to make this thing work with a computer, and am pleasantly surprised to find out I don't need to buy some wireless or RF dongle for it.