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Losing Weight with the Nintendo Wii - 6 Weeks Later

wiiweightlossplan.com — So I submitted this a while back when the plan was still young. I've taken a few diggers' advice and made some modifications. 6 weeks into it and the results are pretty amazing so far, now only 4 pounds away from the lightest I have ever been. Take a look to see what I have done and how I am doing so far by exercising with the Nintendo Wii.

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  • Eldorian, on 10/12/2007, -3/+38Brain fart when I was typing this up. Should say "lightest I have ever been in 8 years".
    • gxcdesign, on 10/12/2007, -3/+25and I lost 100 lbs in 6 months...by playing GameCube (albeit I was on a treadmill everyday)
    • unloud, on 10/12/2007, -15/+11Wouldn't it make more sense to say "the lightest I've been in 8 years"? "ever" and "8 years" are measurements of time that stand separate from each other.
    • calebhawk, on 10/12/2007, -1/+21http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1332802751371658120&hl=en

      video of him working out and wearing a diggnation shirt
    • Eldorian, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4@unload

      Yes, yes it would. You're correct.
    • djAnakin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Congrats on losing the weight. Don't listen to the poll on your site. You can totally do it! Keep up the good work.
    • GawtMilk, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3Eldorian, if you're losing weight with a Nintendo Wii, you're overweight. The workout it provides is abismal.

      EDIT: just saw caleb's video. Sorry. No offense meant. But when you get down to ~170 pounds, you'll see that the amount you lose slumps and slumps...it's exponential. You should really start wearing weights on your arms.
    • apikoros, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2GawtMilk, relax. He'll vary his routine as he gets closer to his target weight. By that point---disparaging "realists" like you notwithstanding---he'll be encouraged by his own success.
    • heysuburbia, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Eldorian ,

      That's awesome.

      I'm Mickey from the "Wii Sports Experiment", that you mention in your article. I'm so glad others tested this out.

      Not only have there been studies by major universities supporting this evidence, now another blogger went through the ringer with even better results then me (I think you added a diet, where I ate the same).

      I may contact you for some quotes/tips/testimonials for the book that I have in the works "The Wii Workout". I have a publisher and a writer from Men's Health magazine, ghost writing.

      I also have been in talks with Konami and I have a new build of DDR: hottest party to test out and create routines and gather data, the book should be out late summer/fall.

      Also, anybody who is thinking about working out with Wii Sports and other games should join the Wii Group on Traino.com, I've teamed up with them and there are tons of routines, stories, motivators, and a competition to win Wii's.
  • Renton, on 10/12/2007, -13/+5At this rate, it would take you 2 more years to reach your goal.

    Maybe you should start wearing weights on your your wrists and ankles. And maybe play for 45 minutes each day instead of 30.

    Good job though. This might inspire people to pop out Zelda, dust off Wii sports and lose weight.
    • Eldorian, on 10/12/2007, -1/+232 years? How do you figure? I lost 16 in 6 weeks. My goal is 80 pounds overall.

      I'm just curious to your reasoning there... thanks.
    • Renton, on 10/12/2007, -2/+24Nvm, i confused weeks with months. It will take you 24 weeks. Thats about 6 months. Sorry about that.
    • justin22290, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1This exercise/diet is interesting haha... plus a really good weight loss progression but it will become harder to loss it also...

      I lost 30 pounds in the month of march this year... hard core 1 meal a day plain meat and wax beans... it worked.... only want to lose 10-20 more then start my weight lifting, but i lost a lot of muscle mass dieting this way also... but i need to get looking good for the beach this year... :)


      thinking of mounting a 25lbs weight to the wii-mote for a lifting routine
    • matt23423, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0A little table showing how many calories you can lose with the Wii. Depending on what you do and games, you can lose significantly more or less.
      http://ohcash.com/2007/02/02/more-points-for-the-wii/
  • wisedude, on 10/12/2007, -13/+4I was dissapointed at this.... It's fairly clear that the bulk of the loss if not all was attributed to your significant lifestyle changes, not your wii...
    • Smwbigboss, on 10/12/2007, -1/+21Of course. You don't lose much weight by exercise alone.
    • FukUrCouch, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7"Hi, I'm J. R. and I like to play with my Wii."

      I can say Me too!

      I didn't lose weight but i did get some muscle on my right arm....I'm not sure it was because of the wii???
    • joshpowell, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8@boredandold,
      Exercise burns calories. If you are exercising more and eating the same (or less) you'll lose weight, but if you're exercising more and eating more you won't. A combination of both are definitely needed for successful weight loss.
  • theburst, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6It just goes to show there are different styles of losing weight. Good luck with the rest of your goal!
  • SteelFrog, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1I'm curious as to what exactly you are doing/playing. I've taken a look at the 'About' page and it did not make any mention of it. Might be in one of your posts somewhere, but I couldn't seem to find it.
    • SteelFrog, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2Okay, okay, so I didn't watch the video. I get it now.
      For those of you who didn't bother with the video either, he's not focusing specifically on a single sport, but the entire Wii Sports package.
    • Eldorian, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6WiiSports (primarily boxing), WarioWare Smooth moves also helps a bit. Dragonballz isn't that bad either for getting up and moving. Anything that gets you off the couch and moving is better than sitting on the couch twiddling your thumbs.
    • hdtvdust, on 10/12/2007, -14/+2No, anything that gets you off the couch is NOT better if you gives you the false sense of accomplishment. You are not accomplishing anything. Buy an exercise bike. A treadmill. Anything.

      Seriously...there is agood chance you are LESS healthy now than you were 6 weeks ago. Losing weight does not necessarily mean that you are healthier.
    • crossmr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Much like Dance Dance Revolution and the way it was used, some of the Wii games can be used as a cardiovascular work out. This is good for general hearth/lung health and burning calories. You need to pick your games properly though and not cheat yourself. Something like Tennis or Boxing is your best bet as you can keep a fairly high activity level in them and sustain it. I Think baseball, bowling and Golf just don't do that.

      You should combine this with a muscle building program of some sort as well though. Building muscle will increase your metabolism and make you burn calories faster.
  • noamchomskeet, on 10/12/2007, -14/+5i'd rather run 30 minutes on a treadmill than play wii for 4 hours, that's actually punishment.
  • oyourmom, on 10/12/2007, -2/+21@Eldorian
    Dude get off Digg right now. It's addicting as hell and its just gonna hurt your weight loss plan. Unless of course your using your Wii. Haha but seriously good job man loosing just a few pounds is actually pretty hard.
    • Dpack1, on 10/12/2007, -5/+5yeah, Digg is so AMAZINGLY addictive, once you see the NEXT flash game hit the front page that really is the most ADDICTING game ever you'll never return to YOUR Wii.

      /sarcasm
    • Ahnteis, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Play the flash games on the Wii. FTW. ;P
  • camilos, on 10/12/2007, -24/+4FanBoy : "I lost weight using my wii. See, another reason why my favorite system is the king!"
    How about you go out and do some jogging or some mountain biking your freaken loser!

    • venir, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Says the guy flaming people on digg...
  • viperman5000, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10Dugg for the diggnation t-shirt.
    • PathDaemon, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Was it really necessary to wear it in absolutely every appearance, though? Schizeriously, he'd better be getting money. Else he's a phreakin' fanboy.
    • Eldorian, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15@PathDemon

      I wore it in the interview and for the picture (and later added it to the Mii on the site). I did it because I got the TV interview from my first story that got on Digg and I wanted to wear the shirt during the interview to give back some publicity - not getting paid. Yeah, I might be a fanboy, but I thought it was fair.
    • Mrstupid7, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2Wow I didn't know he ***** with phones too.
    • Mrstupid7, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I guess nobody knows what the word phreak means anymore.
  • eatsleeptrumpet, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3healthy diet and regular excercise for an hour a day, then you can play all the wii you'd like...
  • hdtvdust, on 10/12/2007, -11/+4Again...you did not lose that playing Wii. You lost it chanigng your eating habits, etc. Wii cannot contradict human biology, nor the laws of thermodynamics. You simply did not expend enough energy to burh tnat many calories.

    Also, non-aerobic, no weight training diets like this tend to make hte person GAIN body fat percentage-wise. You are burning more essential fats and msucles than you are extra fat.

    Sorry, but this is a terrible message to send. PEople sould NOT be looking toward a ***** video game to get healthy. You are not doing your body any good. Better than it was when you first thought of doing nothing else but play the Wii, but you still have a LONG way to go before you are doing GOOD for your body.

    Go to a doctor and get your body fat measured professionally. Then continue this and when yo lose another 10 pounds, go back. It will be HIGHER than now. Now loiwer. And chances are, it it higher now than it was 6 weeks ago.

    Losing weight is not hard. And playing Wii and burining 4-5 calories per minute is not the way to do it. Simply activities like bike riding burn 3 times that amount. Far better for you.
    • PathDaemon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Wii is totally aerobic exercise. That's where most of the burn is.
    • grumpyrain, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5You seem to be missing the point.

      No-one is arguing that you would not lose more weight with regular gym sessions and bike rides, and no-one is claiming that Find Mii is a good candidate for weight loss, but I can assure you that some games (especially boxing) do more than a typical thumb twiddle game. What is without question good is that he is using it as an excuse to eat better.

      Bikes and treadmills work, but only if you actually make the time to use them. It is always too hot, too cold, too dark, too wet, too late to jump on the bike (any convenient excuse). I doubt the fact his treadmill is still in storage is unusual for a typical person. So what are you after? Consensus that the Wii is not the ideal weight loss device? Sure. You can do better, but it is certainly not useless. It is all about motivation.
  • xlivevilx, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1http://duggmirror.com/gaming_news/Losing_Weight_with_the_Nintendo_Wii_6_Weeks_Later/
  • kanemano, on 10/12/2007, -8/+5how out of shape do you have to be, that the mere fact that waving your arms around constitutes rigorous, heart raising exercise?
    • TrevorBradley, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6You'd be surprised how much that helps. Considering that these people are standing and moving for an hour a day, as opposed to being lethargic on a couch or computer chair...

      Weight loss is a subtle thing. 200 calories a day really does make 10s of pounds of difference.
    • crossmr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3If you don't cheat yourself, a game like the boxing one can be as heart pumping as say.. oh I dunno.. an aerobics class based on boxing. they exist, check them out. As far as 200 calories a day goes, you need to do better than that. If your deficit is only 200 calories a day (say prior to working out your food intake and calories expended were even) you're only dropping 1400 calories a week and thats not even half a pound. He's losing a little over 2 pounds a week, so he's actually creating a deficit between food and exercise of around 1000 calories per day. How much of that is the Wii? The work-out done on a Wii can be compared to light aerobics, and the calories burned there are dependent on your weight (and your metabolism, but most people don't have the time or money to figure out their actual metabolism) but you can guestimate through some sites which give figures on calories burned.
  • taosd, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2It's pretty miraculous what a little exercise and eating, not even healthy, but more healthy will do for you... I was at 270 on September 10... I'm now 189... I bike 10K most days... that's pretty much it... hats off to this dude though.
    • hdtvdust, on 10/12/2007, -5/+0But the same applies to you as it does to the Wii. Biking is great. One of hte best ways to lose weight. But less than 16 pounds of your weight loss has come from biking.
  • BigPerm53, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6I wii boxed for 2 hours the other day and my elbows the next day hurt every time I reached for my cheetos.
  • Spytap, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1I would love a place to check out the original posts, or what the "wii weight loss plan" consists of...
  • hdtvdust, on 10/12/2007, -8/+4Just to elaborate, playing 30 minues a day would burn about 140 calories a day. So, playing Wii has burned less than two pounds of fat over 6 weeks.

    And actually, it hasn't even come close to that. To really burn fat, you have to reach your target heart rate. And I don't care how into the games you are getting, you are not reaching that heart rate playing Wii. At least not sustaining it for the entire time. So, those 140 calories you are burning every day are not coming from your body's fat sources, but mostly from muscle.
    • hdtvdust, on 10/12/2007, -8/+2Bury the facts, little children of Digg. Don't let accuracy EVER invade this site!

      And of course, just bury...NEVER try to have an intelligent debate. Because you are woefully unqualified for a battle of wits.
    • psion01, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Where are you getting the 140 calories burned in 30 minutes, hdtvdust? And when you say "I don't care how into the games you are getting, you are not reaching that heart rate playing Wii," I'm suspicious because you're telling me it's impossible to play the game vigorously enough to qualify as aerobic exercise. It sure seems to me it would be pretty easy to throw my whole body around (not just my arm) while playing in an effort to turn entertainment into healthy exercise.
    • perpetua, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4You want to talk facts? A food calorie is a unit of energy. Calories in calories out. The deficit, relative to your typical caloric intake, causes the body to use energy reserves (ass fat).

      It is people like yourself, alleging that you can spot reduce fat, and that different exercise creates a caloric defecit from different sources, that allow people like Susan Powter to be a quasi-celebrity.
    • venir, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@hdtvdust

      I have to disagree with you. I have played wii boxing, but specifically just the training exercise with the punching bags, and playing repeatedly for a half hour will get my heart going and get me sweating and out of breath. Granted I wouldn't consider myself in great shape but I am 5' 9" 180lbs and don't quite think im really very overweight. The wii can get your heart rate going just like doing many non-weight exercises can.
    • joshpowell, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3hdtvdust, where are you getting these numbers?

      1. Calories burnt depends on the weight of the person. The author of the story at 254lbs will burn more than I would at 179.

      2. A brisk walk for 25 minutes or so would burn 140 calories. I think a vigorous boxing-type aerobic workout would burn more calories than walking.

  • PapaZit, on 10/12/2007, -8/+1How much is Nintendo paying you?

    You can lose weight jacking off all day. It's not all that impressive. I can't believe a ***** site like this was made. Find something better to do with your time.
    • camilos, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2He's a fanboy, this IS his life. Along with all the other fanboys that visit his site.

    • dangerz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13I think he's doing something perfectly fine with his time. Not everyone can be disciplined enough to have a workout schedule, but he found something that works for him and he's doing it. Kudos to him.
    • PapaZit, on 10/12/2007, -6/+0IN RESPONSE TO MR. DANGERZ

      That's great. Whatever you need to do to lose weight, but come on. You don't need a ***** website. I'm really tempted to make a site about how I jacked off an hour a day and lost weight. But that won't get media coverage, because it's not based on a product in a multi-billion dollar industry. Jacking off doesn't sell anything except tissues (unless you use socks) and lube (if you require it). Personally I don't.
    • Ahnteis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4The website is like a support group. When you report progress regularly, it acts as an additional incentive.
    • Eldorian, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3The website was started as a way to make sure I analyzed what I was doing every day and it started out by just me giving it out to some friends. I figured if I had to sit down and think about what I did and write it down, the more likely I am to stick to it every day, especially when family and friends are reading it. I submitted it to Digg a little over a month ago on a whim to see what kind of response I would get and that's when the media coverage started.

      In fact, the site idea came to me when I signed up for an account with sparkpeople.com. One of their motivating things to start out with a weight loss plan was starting some kind of journal, so I did.
  • Dustin00, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I do this with World of Warcraft on my PC -- just ride a recumbent bike while I play.

    Burning 1000 cal/day and feel ***** fantastic.

    But I'm lifting weights for 20 min each day and building a lot of muscle too, so I have no weight loss to measure. Just keep notching up my belt.
    • Eldorian, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Are you the guy that does the "War biking" then? Or did you just get the idea from the guy who started doing that?

      That's something I'm highly interested in trying out if I get an exercise bike. Although I've been getting a little bored of WoW lately - but it sounds like fun.
  • getliquified, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9if u want to lose weight playing a game play DDR

    true story
    • soulpiercer7, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5dude. DDR is an awesome workout. You enter in your weight ad it calculates how many calories you burn on each song and then keeps count.

      I've been playing it everyday for the past week for about 2 hours a day. I have a Wii so I've been playing the Gamecube version of DDR on very hard mode. Lots of fun and lots of exercise. I've also been changing my eating habits and have cut out non-diet soda altogether. It really helps when you don't have to work to burn off that extra 150 calories from the drink you had just before...

      This seems like a good plan as well. Wii sports can be a good workout too, especially boxing. You could even make it harder by adding some weights to your wrists.

      Good job man, keep it up!

    • crossmr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3They are doing a DDR game for the Wii that will include the use of a mat and the wii-mote/nunchuck so honestly this is probably going to be the "best" video game workout around. A lot of people already use DDR for weight loss as it is.

      @soulpiercer7
      The best way to lose weight is to stop having those drinks. I saw a dietician a year ago, and before I even started exercising or made any changes, I simply went from pop/juice to water/crystal-light and I lost 10 lbs in the first month.

    • Miche1987, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1soulpiercer7: "dude. DDR is an awesome workout. You enter in your weight ad it calculates how many calories you burn on each song and then keeps count."

      I quite agree that DDR is very good, but its Workout Mode isn't the most accurate calculator of calories burned...because it only bases that on the steps you take on the arrows. You can flail your arms around all you want or step off the arrows (it happens... :p), but DDR can't keep track of that.

      Hopefully they'll have that issue solved with the Wii version though. :)
  • brhad56, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2You could play RL sports for even more realism and quicker results. Just a thought.
    • Ahnteis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Yes. That's sure to work. Everyone always invites the "fat guy" to play on their team right? Especially if they haven't played that sport much and aren't very good at it.

      I don't know this guy's individual circumstances, but the truth is--it doesn't matter where you get your exercise. Just so long as you get some.

      Perfect weight-loss program? Probably not. Who cares. It's better then nothing, AND he's having fun.
    • Eldorian, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I love playing sports and absolutely love playing raquetball. I played football and baseball in highschool and was on the varsity team for both. I started gaining weight during my senior year in highschool and it got out of control in college.

      I would love to play more, but currently I literally live in the middle of no where. My town has a population of about 100 people and most of those people are over the age of 60. The closest gym is about 45+ miles away.

      I'm hoping things will change once I move to Kansas City - I've already been invited to join a softball league and I will be doing that.
  • suprtrtl, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0How strange. Christine had said something Saturday night about how you had a story on digg and asked me if I'd seen it. I hadn't, till now. Ironic. Congrats on the weight loss junior*
  • attractivetb, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3When you way 270, the first 25 should melt off. Expect your pace to slow considerably if you don't mix in some extra workouts...try jogging.

    I honestly think that 16lbs in 6 weeks is extremely slow for someone starting fron 270.
    • TrevorBradley, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I started from 262.

      Some DDR, but mostly diet and calorie reduction. And probiotics.

      The first 25 pounds melted away very quickly. Since then it's been a slog, but I'm down to 204 in 4 months. Just 4 more pounds and I'm no longer overweight (6'3").

      Try cutting calories, bring them down to the 1500-2000/day range and stick with it, and find a way to circumvent that part of your brain that raids the fridge.


    • crossmr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2They only recommend 2 lbs/week, 6 *2 = 12, so he's a bit ahead of the game. When you start losing more than 2 lbs/week you get muscle loss. Since he is a bit ahead, I hope he's added some weight lifting to the mix.
    • spazoidspam, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I have had first hand experience with losing weight too fast and then having it come back plus more. I have struggled with being overweight most of my life. My highest weight ever was about 300lbs at 5'9". About 4 years ago I lost about 40lbs, but put it all back on. The problem is that I tried too hard that time and lost that weight in a month. This time I am taking it slower, in the past year and a half, I have lost 65lbs, and am now down to my lowest weight since early high school, 235lbs. I eat the food I like, just less of it, and work out at home lifting weights. I like running/bike riding, but its been cold here and I am not much of a winter person. However, every time it breaks 60 degrees I am out there.
    • TrevorBradley, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I know, I'm in for a hard transition. Going from a 1500 calorie diet to a 2200 calorie diet and not having the weight come back will be an even harder transition than losing the weight in the first place. I realize there's a high risk for a rapid regain of weight, and I'm preparing for it.

      A grand majority of the weight loss has been fat. I think I got lucky, a probiotic diet seems very effective at cutting out fat without losing lean mass. (studies have shown that it can lean to about a 70/30% fat vs lean mass reduction. I didn't really realize I was doing this until about 25 pounds in. That and my diet is even more varied than it was before the drop in calories.

      My plan is to pull out of this dive, increase my caloric intake, increase my exercise level, and stabilize my weight at the high level of "normal", to bring back any muscle mass I have lost, while losing the remainder of my tummy fat. Keeping a very close eye on my weight and not letting it spike or drop will be important.

      If it's still off in a year, then it will have worked. I do agree I don't recommend it to others.
  • dlars5, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Dude that's sweet. Yes, it would be much more efficient to lose weight doing other types of exercise (running or biking), but it's hard for many people to become motivated enough to do those things. What on earth can be more fun that playing a video game while accomplishing the very difficult goal of weight loss?

    You're gonna be the new Subway Jared, except for Nintendo
    • crossmr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Some people need to graduate to that type of thing. Someone who is 270-300+ lbs can't just jump on to a bike or go running. People seem to forget that fact. When i was really out of shape, I couldn't jog more than 1 minute. As soon as I started, the up and down motion on my back was absolute killer, I felt like my lower back was going to break.

      Biking is a bit easier, but if you don't have an exercise bike and you have a Wii, take the Wii to get started. Buying a bike costs more money. If I lost say 20-30 lbs using the Wii I might feel more confident about investing money to step it up a notch.

      As far as efficiency goes, you do what you can sustain. If you've stopped sweating move on to something else.

  • BrianNowhere, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1If you are lazy and want to lose weight Atkins is the way to go. If you can manage to stay in the induction phase for two months you will lose about 40 lbs and that is without exercising. People say, well you won't keep it off, which has been true for me, but it takes monthss and months and months to gain the weight back and so what, you go back on the diet for two months and lose it all over again.
    • Eldorian, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7I don't like the idea behind the Atkins diet. As strange as this sounds (but if you read my entire site you'd see), I don't want to do a "fad diet" like the Atkins. My site is about making life style changing decisions and then sticking to them. Atkins I don't think is healthy to do long term and I don't want to do that to my body. I'd much rather teach myself to watch my calorie intake and watch what I eat every day and get into the habit of exercising. The Nintendo Wii has been my gateway to that I guess you might say - and that's really the entire point of the site I believe.
  • FongoBongo, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2I guess its an improvement when you go from extremely obese to moderately obese...
  • Justin6512, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4a story like this would make a great commercial for the wii.
  • fatjoe, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1"I don't think you'll reach your goal weight"

    hope this helps.
  • dragonballz66, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Drink plenty of warm water a day, at least 8 to 10 glasses. It could considerably help with your weight loss. I've played Wii Sport boxing and I know how it feels after the training and a few round with an opponent. Adding weights to your arms and legs could also helps. Good luck with your goal.
    • skankyBacon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Why warm water? I had always heard that drinking cold water actually burns calories as your body heats it up.
  • dragonballz66, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Actually, it should be after every meal as warm water aid in the digestion. Drinking plenty of water also wash out all the impurities in your system. You tend to loose weight quickly.
  • Ogedei, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Just want to say good luck. I lost 100lbs a couple years back and kept it off.

    If you don't have em, take before pictures. They are unbelievable once you drop the lbs.

    I would in fact add a section to the blog with your before pics and a series of progress pics.

    Again, good luck.
  • ChanM, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Well considering the guy is ALREADY extremely overweight it is understandable for him to lose 16 pounds in 6 weeks. Still his body is going to adapt to playing the game and he won't be losing any weight later on unless he start doing some other exercises.
  • octowussy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0And to think that you could have spent all of that time learning a REAL sport.
  • badfool, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I swear I've lost at least some weight playing Nintendo Wii. It's a great console and I wish more kids played it.
  • delooka, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0i was expecting photos. i was disappointed.
  • housetim, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0pics or it did not happen!
  • Colbs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11200 calories a day
    protein,
    lower carbs but still above 50 mg
    less than 1/3 from fat

    and over twenty minutes of exercise 3 out of 5 days

    90lbs in 3 monthsâ˜ș
    • TrevorBradley, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1If you do it *with* carbs, it's more like 50 pounds in 3 months. At least for me... But I feel so much better than before the diet.

      As others have pointed out here, 1200 is really pushing it, though I did 1200 for a couple of months. 1500 is more sane. There's a severe danger in putting it all back on again, and feel worse than when you started. The transition to normal weight will be harder than the diet.
  • reconflux, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1what do you eat on the weekends? you didn't list anything on your plan. hope you're not letting loose! Good luck! Great progress so far.
    • Eldorian, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It depends, weekends I'm usually out and about. I try to stick to the meal plan - but sometimes I'm not home. Which means eating at a restuarant most the time. I still watch what I eat and keep the portions low even if I eat at a restaurant. I've developed a pretty good taste for chef salads.
  • Neenja, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Dude, Kudos! losing weight while playing the Wii that's awesome! Keep it up!
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  • FlatStomach, on 05/27/2008, -0/+0I started doing regular cardiovascular exercises and sometimes I do also flat stomach exercises. I like http://www.how-to-get-a-flat-stomach.com/.
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