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My Weight Loss Coach | 
| From: UBI Soft
Category: Video Games
List Price: $39.99
Buy New: $37.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  20 reviews
Sales Rank: 107
Platform: Nintendo Ds
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Age: 5 - 20 years
Operating System: Nintendo DS
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 5.1 x 1.7
MPN: 16410
Model: 16410
UPC: 008888164104
EAN: 0008888164104
ASIN: B000X25GWW
Release Date: June 24, 2008 (New: Last 30 Days)
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Condition: Brand New! In Stock, Ships from PA. FREE DELIVERY CONFIRMATION! In original sealed package / box! Money Back Guarantee!
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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.
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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 15 more reviews...
 Being healthy... fun?? July 19, 2008
Wow-- I must say i am impressed with this game! Reading all the reviews off this website I admit I was slighlty skeptical, but I am so happy with my purchase! I'm about the average weight for a 20 year old woman and I haven't had any problems with the game.
The pedometer is a bit bigger than most, but it goes with me everywhere! It has only reset itself to '0' once, when i dropped it and the battery popped out. Other than that it works fine. The game rewards you if you complete challenges and your daily tasks by having your stick figure walk to different mile stones-- it isn't implying that you've walked that specific number of miles in that day- it's just another feature to help motivate you.
The little stick figure is adorable and motivating, just as everyone says. The games are a little corny and the challenges aren't too demanding... But if you're like me, with 10 t0 25 pounds to lose, and need some day to day motivation, you might want to consider purchasing this game. Mind you, it won't do the work for you, but it's simple enough to get you motivated and keep you going if you let it help you out.
I am particularly amused by the food intake part of the game in which you must feed the little stick figure all the foods you've eaten for the day. While the foods are limited and you aren't always able to select the exact fods you've eaten, it should still make you aware of your daily nutrition and eating habits. And hey! Health and fitness is ALL about AWARENESS!!
I empower anyone seeking a little more motivation to excercise and develop a healthier lifestyle to go out and purchase "My Weightloss Coach". I really enjoy playing this game, and I hope you will too.
Walk it off, candypants. July 18, 2008
My Weight Loss Coach is, by and large, a fun, creative, friendly way to get - and stay - motivated to make your life a little healthier. Your guide is a smiling, animated stick figure, who's always quite liberal with the applause and encouragement.
When you first fire up the program, it spends some time explaining how things work, and asking for things like your gender, birth date, height, and weight.
The screen where you enter your weight made me laugh. Using a sliding doctor's scale, you input how much you weigh. Weigh too little for your height, and the character on the screen gradually morphs into a beanpole. Weigh too much, and the character grows a fat gut and starts to sweat and look tired as you move the sliders higher.
From these measurements, it gives you a rough calculation of your BMI. It also asks some questions pertaining to your lifestyle, how much physical activity you typically engage in, etc. From there, it starts to formulate a plan to gradually whip you into shape.
The program breaks down into two basic parts: your "Daily Session" and "Backpack." The "Daily Session" contains 4 categories, namely, Pedometer, Challenges, Physical Activity, and Food Balance.
The Pedometer section asks you to enter the number of steps you walked during a given day. This can be done manually if you have your own pedometer, or by directly uploading the data from the included pedometer.
The Challenges section contains quite a number of little challenges, all related to better health in one way or another. It includes things like doing pushups (counting them off out loud into the DS's microphone!), walking to the grocery store, drinking a cup of herbal tea, walking 3000 more steps than usual during a 24-hour period, and many others.
Physical Activity is where you input what you've done of a physical nature during the day, and for how long. It includes things like walking the dog, lifting weights, doing housework, playing basketball, etc.
The Food Balance section is where you input what you ate during that day. Based on this data coupled with all the other physical activity you entered in the categories above, it will give you a general idea of whether or not your caloric intake is balancing out well with your physical exertion.
The "Backpack" section of the program allows you to update your personal statistics, view your progression toward goals, and take quick quizzes related to health. The quizzes are easy, but they serve to help reinforce your knowledge of healthy habits, and unlock a greater variety of challenges that will show up in - where else? - your Challenges section.
My Weight Loss Coach doesn't seem to be designed to blast the fat off your frame, like Body for Life or some sort of cabbage soup diet. Rather, it sets manageable goals and encourages you to take little steps, just a few at a time, to ease yourself into better health. It's kind of like spending forty bucks for your own live-in personal trainer, who's got lots of time to gently persuade you to make improvements.
Sure, you won't see quick and massive changes, but hopefully you'll train your mind and body to have healthier habits in general, which will be better for the long term. After all, how many people do you know who actually stick with the Atkins diet - or any other radical diet or exercise program - for the long term?
Every day, the game sets daily goals for you - walk X number of steps, do Y number of challenges, get at least Z minutes of physical activity, and keep your food intake in balance with your physical output. If you miss a goal for any given day, that's no big deal; you can try again tomorrow. As you fulfill your goals, it measures your progress by showing how far you've "walked" - the first milestone is at roughly 12 miles, which is apparently the distance it takes to get up Mount Everest and back down. This is just the first of 20 milestones. Not a bad motivator.
It also sets longer-term goals, such as having you get your weight down to a certain level within a month. Various charts and graphs let you see where you've been and how far you've come. For example: the BMI graphs. Your BMI is tracked as a line against a colored background. The healthy BMI ranges are shown in green, and as you start to get away from that healthy range (or, if you start out in an unhealthy range like me), the colors turn red.
I wouldn't call the game a miracle worker. Mostly what it does is augment and encourage your own willpower. Rather than cracking the whip and saying "Okay, from now on you're going to stop eating junk and start a 6-day-a-week weight training program," it has you do little things, like drink more water and move around during commercials on TV. How can you burn out on a program that has you drink more water and asks you to get up off the couch for a few minutes?
There are a few drawbacks and clunky parts to the package. I don't especially care for the food input system, which asks you to enter the calories you consumed by dragging pictures of food into a stick figure's mouth. Scrolling through all the menus in search of what you ate during a given day is pretty time consuming and annoying, not to mention somewhat generalized and inaccurate. More often than not, I go with the "quick" food entry, which simply asks you to take a guess at whether your daily meals and snacks were light, balanced, or heavy.
And I really don't care for the included pedometer. I've never used a pedometer before, but I can't imagine they're all this bulky and noisy. It uses a mechanical counting mechanism which clicks with every step you take. Visualize someone walking right behind you, holding a retractable ballpoint pen, clicking it every time you take a step. It's like that. I'll probably end up getting something quieter.
Additionally, I'm wondering if there's the possibility of overlap between the Pedometer section and the Physical Activity section. For example, if you spend 30 minutes walking your dog while wearing the pedometer, will the program give you credit for both activities? The game's a little unclear on this.
Overall, though, I would recommend this program to people who need that extra motivation and lots of little hints and suggestions to improve their health. There's nothing mysterious or magical about what you need to do to lose weight - eat less, exercise more. Not all of us are predisposed to do either. This game will help.
 Loving it! July 16, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I was skeptic at first when considering this "game" for purchase. However, I am so glad I did! The character coach is adorable and very motivating! When I do not make goals or end up having an "unbalanced" day, the game never makes me feel bad about it. I love the ersonalized challenges and even though I considered myself knowledgeable about fitness and nutrition in general, I still have learned a lot from the quizzes and tips sections! Totally worth the time and money!
 Great idea, but needs many improvements July 15, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I pre-ordered this game back in December 2007, so you can imagine how excited I was to receive it. At first, I loved it. I had no idea how sedentary I was until I tracked my steps with the pedometer. I thought it was very cool that the pedometer hooked up directly to the DS and uploaded the steps automatically. I found the challenges cute and helpful. I found myself moving around alot more to get my steps in. It has been a pretty good motivator, but 2 weeks later I have not lost any weight.
The lack of weight loss, however is not my complaint. The pedometer itself is chunky and obtrusive and yesterday the clip on it broke. When I first received it, it was extremely difficult to clip on my waistband. I think that a spring-loaded clip would be much more durable, but the clip on it is basically immovable. The good news is that you can still input your steps in the game manually, but now I get to shell out some more money on a new pedometer.
Since I pre-ordered this item, I only paid $29.95 on it, but I still think I paid too much. Even though I'm still planning on using the game as a weight-loss aide, if I were to do it all over again, I would buy a pedometer (the one I just bought to replace it is Omron HJ-720ITC Pocket Pedometer with Advanced Omron Health Management Software, but you can still use a cheap, run-of-the-mill pedometer), wait until the price of this game goes down to about $19.95 and reconsider buying it even then.
Not perfect but a fun start! July 13, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The challenges aren't always 100% possible, but you don't have to take on a challenge...well unless you ask for the surprise challenge. If you take one and it's too daunting, there's no penalty. It just tells you that to try and pick challenges that fit your lifestyle. I'm 8 months pregnant and I'm managing just fine.
It encourages you to exercise and watch your food intake and based on questions asked at the beginning, it gives you a goal to reach for. It's not an exact science as sometimes you have to fudge the food tracker, but it's a great little start for on the go.
The pedometer isn't the best. It's bulky and I find that it keeps resetting if I bump into something. But here's good news...you don't have to use it. If you want to get something better, the one that comes with the game is a good start. And you can manually enter steps, it will prompt you that the pedometer isn't inserted and then you just use the +/- to add or remove steps.
I like that it gives you a goal of steps and if that's just too much for you, it lowers it. And there are coaching lessons and mini-games full of tips and tidbits. If you are just getting serious, it's a great place to start. If you are already well in shape, probably not for you.
The one and only thing I hate is when you update your weight and you've lost say 2 pounds...it says "Oh, you're BMI hasn't changed at all and you should really consider losing weight!" Well DUH!!! It could be a little more encouraging in that moment when you are actually making the movements downward.
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