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Forums - General - Why the Wii does burn off more calories(fat)!

kamekazai on 28 December 2007
Astrodust said:
TheBigFatJ said:

The idea that eating at night contributes to gaining weight is not proven, and is believed to be a myth. It doesn't matter so much when you eat, as long as it is reasonably balanced, and within your caloritic expenditure.

Just don't eat like an greaseball. Americans have the deck stacked against them already because our portion size is much, much larger than most other countries. Eat healthy, stop when you begin feeling full, and don't eat if you aren't hungry (this can be tricky for some Americans who misinterpret low energy with hungry).

I play very few games for fitness. DDR is one of the only games I've ever introduced into my workout routine, and I'd still be doing it but because of a little rascal it's become inconvenient.


Eating at night is terrible for you if you are trying to lose weight. Ask any fitness professional. Even bodybuilders avoid eating right before bed. The reason has to do with our metabolism slowing down. When we sleep our metabolism is at its slowest. Think of a bear in hiberation. It doesn't need much food to survive for months. Ours is the same way. A person in a coma doesn't eat 3 meals a day. What happens to fats, sugars, carbs, and even protein when they are not used is that they turn into fat. Fat is used as fuel as well but to most people its an undesirable quality. Fat fuel is much slower burning than carbs or sugars and is harder to get rid of once it is there. It burns slower over a longer period of time. So it's harder to burn the stores of fat in your body than say sugar. If you are in the middle of a intense activity like hockey, basketball or climbing, you could drink a bottle of gatorade, or a can of coke and not have to worry about it turning into fat. Your metabolism is very high and the sugars will immediately get used by your body. When you go to bed your body won't use all those sugars in your system and your body will convert them into fat for later use.


As a personal trainier I must say that there are sooooo many things wrong in this paragraph.

 Its not eating at night that is the main cause of extra fat storage as you seem to believe rather its eating when your body stores are already full. For an example lets say you eat pasta for dinner, the fat in the mean will be stored the protien will be used to produce hormones and tissue repair and the Carbs (the largest portion of the meal and the western diet.) will be converted to glycogen and stored in the liver/muscle tissue. While you sleep at night your burn very very little calories thus when you wake up in the morning your liver/muscle stores of glycogen have not depeleted very much at all. Then your going to eat a carb loaded breakfast, what happens when you eat carbs and body is already saturated with stored glycogen? It gets turned into fat and since carbs are the most abundent form of calories in our diet they contribute quite heavily to our fat content

 Basically more important then not eating at night is not eating when your bodies stores of surgar ar still full.

You had the basic right idea but where off on some details.