Nintendo made me overweight!

[fivemack]

In particular, even if I distrust the fourth significant figure on the Wii Fit BMI readout, I am no longer obese. I have not been this light for three years.

Giving up breakfast, scaling down supper to one slice of rye bread thickly laden with cold meats, cheese and salad (I essentially don't eat normal bread at home now, which is slightly sad since I'd finally figured out how to get the breadmaker to work reliably), and doing a 45-minute workout in the morning between two and five times a week, I've lost something like seven kilos since the start of September.

Everyone tells me that giving up breakfast is a mistake, but I don't seem to see ill effects from it. It may be that breakfast is important for recovering from getting out of bed while still sleepy, but I have a three-minute walk to work and am not required to be there at any fixed time, so have the great luxury of getting out of bed only when I've woken up thoroughly.

Comments

[nellorat.livejournal.com]

My goal is always to be healthy, rather than to lose weight, but it seems to me that you might be able to use the breadmaker with high-fiber ingredients, such as flax seed meal or bran as well as whole-wheat flour, and end up with something even better than rye bread.

Also, I hope you are still in touch with when you are really hungry--going hungry is just not sustainable, and the last thing you want is to yo-yo, gaining the weight back. If you genuinely are not hungry in the morning, and you don't get low blood sugar, then OK.

That's an OK dinner, but I hope for your nutrition's sake that the salad isn't just lettuce, but includes good raw veggies. For instance, I annoy the people at the salad place I go to near work, because their policy is one serving of meat but unlimited veggies--but they seem put out as I go on with sun-dried tomatoes, cauliflower, broccoli, hearts of palm, artichoke hearts, green pepper, sweet pepper, green olives, kidney beans, chick peas, grape leaves, mushrooms-- And I wish they had raw spinach, which they don't!

[annafdd.livejournal.com]

I am having a ball with my Wii. I am not losing a lot of weight, but what I am doing is having a lot of fun and exercising a lot more than I did in my gym. Already I am able to do some exercises that I just cursed and weeped about the first week (the press-up. I'm not yet able to complete it, but I am getting halfway which is more than went on on the first days).

Ad for breakfast, I am like you - I tend to skip it. Like you, I know I shouldn't, but I am really not hungry in the morning. So what I do is have breakfasty things for lunch - porridge, say.

I do take a lot of milk in my tea or coffee, though.

I think the idea is that in the morning you have exhausted your glucose and unless you replace it your body is not functioning well, and is also likely to make you eat more than you should at lunch. That's where the milk in the coffee comes in for me: lactose, sugars that can be easily mobilized, and then serious food later on.

[rezendi.livejournal.com]

I have long thought "Breakfast is the most important meal of the day" to be a complete myth.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Congrats!

[dd-b.livejournal.com]

I happily ate breakfast every day while living at home -- and then stopped completely within three days of going to college. I'm not hungry in the morning. I'd rather spend an extra half hour asleep, and set the alarm later.

I'm not sure I understand the arguments of the "breakfast is important" people. Since I'm alert and productive at work in the mornings, I don't worry about it.

[jiggery-pokery.livejournal.com]

Well, hurrah! I hope you have been enjoying it, as well as evidently enjoying the results.

The biggest criticism I have heard of Wii Fit is that it causes considerable pauses between successive activities in your workout routine, a flaw which has apparently been remedied in Wii Fit Plus. Do you have any evidence to support or refute this received wisdom?

[jiggery-pokery.livejournal.com]

Noting, belatedly, that you said that your folks got you Wii Fit Plus for Christmas (http://fivemack.livejournal.com/201214.html#cutid1).

[downybearded1.livejournal.com]

Well done! I admire your discipline and find your current success very encouraging! Keep at it, good luck!

I understand that the breakfast thing is related to fluctuating blood sugar amounts but I think it fails to consider that some people can happily live without breakfast. I understood that as well as the other arguments listed above the body might be more inclined to put on weight and have a larger appetite come lunch and dinner as it gets used to the idea that it will have to sustain itself through breakfast time.

I would have thought though that you're body will be better able to indicate to you whether you need breakfast than accepted advice. I know that I cannot function in the mornings without it (unless I've been particularly inactive) but my partner is totally fine without breakfast (and is actually underweight most of the time). Of all my friends, it seems to be the men who are better able to cope without breakfast so my guess is you shouldn't worry or beat yourself up about skipping it.

[(Anonymous)]

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Benedict