A pretty terrific guy recently posted a dare on his blog.  In fact, he pretty much dared us to dare ourselves.

I did some thinking and tried to figure out the area of my weight loss journey that I have really been wanting to work on.  So here’s my dare to myself:

I dare myself to eat breakfast every day for a week.  I’m notorious for never eating breakfast.  I’ve been that way my entire life.  I always believed it was just because I didn’t want to have to get up any earlier than I had to.  While this was a huge part of it, I also found myself much hungrier on the days that I did eat breakfast.  It was as though by jump-starting my metabolism, eating breakfast kicked my appetite into high gear, causing an eating-everything-in-sight monster to appear for the rest of the day.

I know that I go too long between eating sometimes and considering I’m insulin-resistant, I know that that is not a good thing.  I’ve started eating a thing of yogurt every day at work.  Usually shortly after I get there, but sometimes I get busy and distracted and don’t eat it until an hour or an hour and a half later (2 to 4 hours after I get up).  So, my goal is to eat at least a bowl of cereal every day before I leave for work.  I’m going to start this on Tuesday and see how it goes.

I’ve found All-Bran Extra Fiber cereal that is 0 pts for half a cup, and if I add half a cup of 1% milk, then it’s only 1 point for a bowl of cereal.  I figure this should be a good, low-point, and filling leap into the world of actually eating breakfast.  We’ll see how it goes.