Gamercise is the new Exercise

Wow. This is it. My first cup of coffee without sugar since... well, since I started drinking coffee, I suppose. Fifteen? Sixteen?

It's not so bad, actually. Certainly not as bad as I was expecting.

Allow me to introduce myself. I'm Morgan. That is a boys' name, let's start with that. I know there are some girls called Morgan, but fuck them. We're talking about me.

I, like many people, purchased Wii Fit quite some time ago. The idea of the balance board enticed me like the Wii Remote did all those years ago (two, by my count). It was yet another stroke of genius from Miyamoto - an easy, natural way to play games, that could still be challenging.

I liked it, but of course, the game aspect wore thin. There were nine true minigames, nine forms of exercise disguised as games, and a hell of a lot more exercises disguised as exercises. It was a little like Wii Play - great for showing off the hardware, and good fun, but little more than that.

Fast forward almost a year, to the present day. I weighed myself recently. I won't recount the events leading up to this; let me assure you they are exceedingly boring. The results are a little more interesting.

I am 20 years old, I am 180cm tall, and I am 87.2kg.

I don't know about you, but to me, that sounded like a lot. More than I was expecting, anyway. Well, thanks to Google for confirming it; yes it is. My BMI is 26.9. I am seven kilograms overweight.

I know what you're thinking, right? "Seven kilos, pfft. I'm 150 kilos and five foot six!" Yes, yes, your morbid obesity is killing you. But I've always been the skinny guy, and suddenly finding myself overweight is a serious blow to my psyche. I can't pretend I'm one of the "muscular" people whose BMI will be higher than normal; quite the reverse. So you see, "skinny guy" was all I had. It may not be "footballer", but it was okay.

So what's the upshot?

There is no way I'm joining a gym. I did it once, and it was expensive and unpleasant. Maybe I'll go into details some day, but this post is long enough as it is.

So, what to do? Well, I say that, surrounded by video game peripherals. There are three guitars, a drum kit, four wiimotes, four nunchuks and a wheel. Surely, one of these is going to help me move my body in such a way that it loses weight.

Yes, this is my plan: I am going to lose weight using nothing but videogames and the information I have gathered from watching The Biggest Loser. Except I am not going to be eating Bürgen bread by the truckload.

To that end, I am going to finish my sugarless coffee, and have an omelette for breakfast. I'm even going to throw out one of the yolks! Yes, only one. Baby steps.

--gormster