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My Weight Loss Coach | 
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| From: UBI Soft
Category: Video Games
Buy New: $39.99
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Rating:  42 reviews
Sales Rank: 1271
Platform: Nintendo Ds
Genre: artificial_life_simulation_games
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 5 - 20 years
Operating System: Nintendo DS
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 0 x 0 x 0.1
MPN: 16410
Model: 16410
UPC: 008888164104
EAN: 0008888164104
ASIN: B000X25GWW
Release Date: June 24, 2008
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| Features:
| • | Create your personal profile and evaluate your improvement potential; then set up your objectives following the recommendations based on your personal profile | | • | Input reward system on a daily or weekly basis, overall, per input category via a pedometer, physical activity and nutrition | | • | The pedometer - free with the game and easily updated through your DS, it’s the best way to control your daily physical effort, challenge yourself and balance your food intake | | • | All physical activities you achieve and good nutrition habits you acquire are converted into distance | | • | Developed in collaboration with a fitness coach and a nutritionist |
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Product Description
Lose weight the fun way with My Weight Loss Coach. This game creates customized coaching sessions based on skill level, and includes a pedometer. So take control of your physical well-being by taking positive steps to maintain a healthy lifestyle.
Amazon.com
If you take healthy steps, how far will you go? My Weight Loss Coach for Nintendo DS is a game for every adult, male and female, who considers reaching and maintaining their target weight a challenge. A program that fits your own objectives and respects your daily life constraints, My Weight Loss Coach supports you and tracks your progress and achievements by improving your energy balance. Developed in conjunction with a nutritionist, it helps you take control of your weight efficiently and feel better. Via an exclusive pedometer (included free with the game), you will be able to measure your real physical activity level and balance it, following the advice of a fitness coach. Your motivation will increase with coaching sessions, daily challenges, mini-games and quizzes - play for only 10 to 15 minutes per day and you will feel the difference!
| Key Features
- Personal Profiles: Create your personal profile and evaluate your improvement potential, then set up your objectives following the recommendations based on your personal profile.
- Input Reward System: On a daily or weekly basis, overall, per input category, via a pedometer, physical activity and nutrition.
- The Pedometer: Free with the game and easily updated through your DS, it’s the best way to control your daily physical effort, challenge yourself and balance your food intake.
- Real-Life Landmark Checkpoints: As a reward, all physical activities you achieve and good nutrition habits you acquire are converted into distance. Didn’t you notice you’d already been traveling the distance equivalent to the Great Wall of China?
- Mini-Games:
- 10 coaching sessions, with different themes like alimentation and physical activity, help define your profile and give you strategies
- 300 to 500 fun challenges, depending on your profile and your needs
- Four trivia games, featuring about 300 questions with learning and awareness objectives
- More than 160 tips and hints within the game
- Real Experts: Developed in collaboration with a fitness coach and a nutritionist.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 37 more reviews...
 So Far, So Good. November 11, 2008
I've only used this product for a couple of weeks so far. So far, so good. It mostly just helps you get started moving, and helps show how what you eat relates to the different activities you do.
It's great because it gives you little daily goals. Here's an example of the daily goals:
- walk 6,000 steps (which, by the way, is not as far as it may sound)
- Do 30 minutes of physical activity
- Do one challenge
- Balance your food intake with your activity level
I love that "physical activity" pretty much includes any moving around. Most people probably think that they would have to do aerobics for an hour, or run a mile ... something extreme. This program counts household chores, or even shopping as a physical activity. Have to go grocery shopping? That counts as physical activity. Have to vaccuum the carpet, dust, or clean the bathroom? That counts as physical activity too.
The daily challenges are pretty simple too. You have minute challenges, which may include doing 5 sit-ups, or running to your kitchen to find out which spice jar is the fullest. Some are 24 hour challenges, such as don't skip any of the next 3 meals, put away your salt shaker for 24 hours, or research how to make soup from scratch.
Balancing your food intake with your physical activity. You enter what you ate that day. It's a pretty generic list: cereal, soup, sandwich, soda, etc. You feed your stick person what you ate. I find it easier to update it a couple times a day so I'm not trying to remember every little thing I've eaten in the last 16 hours. Each food is worth a certain amount of energy points. Every minute of activity is worth a certain amount of energy points. What's nice is that the program does all the math for you. If you do more activity one day, it automatically updates how many energy points you should take in. Or if you've taken in more points than you've spent, it will let you know that you should probably spend a little more time doing a physical activity.
It also has a few coaching sessions. It's nice because the coaching sessions have a few multiple choice questions to answer. Which means that the coaching is geared more to your needs. It's not just a general "applies to everyone" type of thing.
One thing I absolutely love, is that it gives you a healthy, realistic weight loss goal. Safe weight loss is 1-2 pounds a week. Having small goals helps a person feel less overwhelmed. Instead of seeing it as, I need to lose 30+ pounds, it's I need to lose 5-6 pounds over the next month. 5-6 pounds seems so much more attainable.
So far, I've only used it a couple of weeks. So I can't really tell how well it works yet. So as time goes by, I'll try to update this review to include that.
One thing I would suggest is to invest in a pedometer other than the one included with the software. The pedometer they give you is nice because it plugs into the Gameboy Adv. port so you don't have to manually enter your step count. The problem with it, is that it is bulky. The thing is huge. If you bend over, it may knock it at a weird angle and keep it from counting your steps correctly. Also, the reset button gets pushed a little to easily. I had 2,000+ steps logged in, and the next time I checked it, it read 20-something. Which seriously stunk. If you're not doing a ton of bending over, or sitting down, you may be okay with the pedpmeter that came with the software. Although, you have to be careful. I lost the dust cover for the part the hooks into your DS by the third day.
So, it's enjoyable. It's easy. It's something to help you get started toward your weigh loss goals.
 Encouragement for this 52yr old. November 4, 2008
I've been working on losing weight for 6 years and had reached a standstill. I don't have anyone around me encouraging me on so this has been great. The little stick figure greets me each evening and gives me tips and gets excited when I meet my challenges.
It figures out what your metabolic rate is and how much food to exercise that you need to lose weight.
It comes with a pedometer that attatches to the game boy advance slot on the DS and it collects the info into your file.
The steps are counted and you see your little figure walking on the screen. She has landmarks that she passes. Like I just finished walking the distance of the Panama canal. Every time you reach one you get a pictue of yourself..ie her infront of the site and it is kept in a scrapbook.
I love the way you enter your food. You drag and drop the items into the stick figure and she chews them. LOL She helps you to balance you intake and output of energy.
I highly recommend this item.
Getting Ready for the Big Day November 1, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Being a Bride to Be and a bit out of shape I needed something to help motivate me to be more active. I have a desk Job and I love having my DS with me for a game on my breaks. Now instead on my DS Breaks I go for a walk around my office and parkinglot. Getting Fresh air and logging my food intake and keeping track of my steps.
I love the challenges they are tailored for me. (Every time you walk through a door way Suck in your stomach and hold it for 5 seconds) Well I never realized how many doorways I walk through. I have had Gastric Lap Band Surgery I used to weigh 500 pounds. I am now at 250 and I have 100 more that I would like to go. But I have a wonderful man who loves me and bought me this to make the last 100 pounds a game. He has given me a treadmill, yoga mat, DVD's and now this game. Not only does he join me in my work outs but he motivates me to keep going. Since he is working so much at EA Games now this is my new motivator. And I love showing off my progress. I am so glad Nintendo has come up with a FUN Motivating Tool to help me loose weight. Now excuse me I have a Minute Challenge I have to go do Dishes in my kitchen...
Want to loose weight on your own November 1, 2008
This game is great for people wanting to loose weight on there own. It makes it fun. Why dish out hundreds of dollars a year to go to a gym when you dont have the time or money. Now for [...] or less, we can play a fun game to help get us motivated, learn whats better to eat and maybe some other things we didnt no. Now who could complain of that when it gets you moving? I love this "game" and use it every day.
 Too Complicated for a Lazy A** Like Me October 15, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
My main problem with this game was the food. You have to remember everything you ate every day -- and the portion size, which isn't easy to do -- and log it in. And make it fit the game's generalized food categories. If you hit the wrong button by accident, you can't undo it. Logging in my food was not fun and just a chore, and even when I barely moved at all that day, the game was telling me my food to exercise balance was good. I know it's not. Many of the challenges the game was offering me -- like put away the salt shaker and clean up the kitchen -- were things I was already doing.
To walk the number of steps on the pedometer it wanted me to walk was a lot of walking! And here's where I failed the game. Instead of getting out at night and walking around the block until I logged in those extra 3,000 steps I was failing to achieve, I just stopped wearing the pedometer. So if you are amendable to being challenged to walk more, than I guess this would be good for you.
But it started off good. It told me to drink a whole glass of water and walk 300 steps to calibrate the pedometer. But after that it never asked me to drink a glass of water again. I wish it had demanded that every time I turned it on. It reached the point where I was just laying on the sofa, trying to log in my food. So I guess it's back to the Wii Fit.
Now that I look at the review, I think I'm the one who should get 1 star and the game should get 4 stars!
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