We’ve all heard it: the best way to get into an exercise routine is to find an exercise that you love.

So, I tried loving my exercise bike but I just couldn’t escape the fact that its seat made my ass hurt. Then I tried loving my treadmill, but it’s so unbelievably noisy that I couldn’t hear my iPod even with the earbuds shoved in as far as they’d go, and forget about trying to hear the TV across the room.

Come to think of it, there are a lot of styles of exercise I’ve tried to love over the years. Tae Bo? Oh, no. That bulked up my legs. Step aerobics? Same deal plus I twisted my ankle. Regular aerobics? By the time I’ve learned a DVD well enough to go along with the routine it’s usually no longer much of a challenge. After that eye full of crotch I got the last time I tried walking in my neighborhood, I’ve pretty much given that up, too.

But I *heart* my Wii. Seriously. Oh, I know: it’s a video game, for chrissakes, it doesn’t “really” count as exercise. Yet it does, at least according to my scale. That half-hour a day I spend playing Wii tennis as if I were on a real court? It leaves me drenched with sweat and feeling well worked-out… without the annoyance of having to wear one of those stupid skirts. (And did I mention that I bought it on sale?)

Now I’ve decided to take the plunge and buy a Wii Fit. I’ve heard and read about so many people who’ve found the Wii Fit to be the answer to their hate-to-exercise problem. In fact, some of them claim that because it’s a video game you don’t even realize you’re exercising (though a few who’ve been going hardcore on the aerobic games say otherwise).

The only downside about ordering one is that I really don’t have any motivation to exercise until it gets here. But that’s okay: I’m pretty certain I’m still getting a workout dashing to the front door every time I hear a car drive by in the hopes that it’s finally the FedEx guy bringing my Wii Fit!