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many poor lifestyle habits at once. It didn't say "drink 64 ounces of water today and every day for the rest of your life." It just said to go drink a big glass of water. One of my physical challenges was to do ten lunges. I'm out of shape enough that it got my heart rate up, but it wasn't enough to wear me out. It wasn't enough to discourage me from doing it tomorrow. The interactivity of it will be a huge benefit. I have a shelf full of work out DVDs that would probably work wonders, but I don't have any ongoing encouragement to put them in. Results are never immediate, so it helps to have someone (even if it's a stick figure) to encourage you and even reward you for coming back. In fact, I might actually pull some of those DVDs off the shelf so that I can get in some of the physical activity the game asks me to do. Cons: Like some other reviewer mentioned, the game does not give enough options for entering food intake. For example: my first day, I had two pieces of pizza. Pizza is listed, but it's not specific what kind of pizza. Thin crust frozen pizza is undoubtedly lower in calories than the doughy, greasy pizza I had from Papa John's. You kind of have to pick and choose from what's available and come up with the closest thing you can. It's a little frustrating, but relatively minor. For more accurate tracking, I'd check out [...]. If this program let you enter in an unlisted food by calories/fat/etc, it'd be a huge improvement. The other significant con is that there aren't enough personalization options. One challenge was to drink a glass of warm milk before bed. The challenges are all optional, but it'd be nice to input food allergies/intolerances (like a lactose intolerance) to prevent those challenges from appearing. Along the same lines, it encourages walking, which is GREAT if you don't live in an area like mine. When it told me to walk 500 steps, I walked the hallway of my apartment complex ten times. It's not entirely safe in my neighborhood, and I'm not going out there by myself. Case closed. It also encourages you to walk to the grocery store. Not gonna happen. I don't feel like ending up on the evening news. What I'll end up doing on the days I don't work will be to drive to a safer area. I'll update this if I have any new observations while using it. Good luck!

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many poor lifestyle habits at once. It didn't say "drink 64 ounces of water today and every day for the rest of your life." It just said to go drink a big glass of water. One of my physical challenges was to do ten lunges. I'm out of shape enough that it got my heart rate up, but it wasn't enough to wear me out. It wasn't enough to discourage me from doing it tomorrow. The interactivity of it will be a huge benefit. I have a shelf full of work out DVDs that would probably work wonders, but I don't have any ongoing encouragement to put them in. Results are never immediate, so it helps to have someone (even if it's a stick figure) to encourage you and even reward you for coming back. In fact, I might actually pull some of those DVDs off the shelf so that I can get in some of the physical activity the game asks me to do. Cons: Like some other reviewer mentioned, the game does not give enough options for entering food intake. For example: my first day, I had two pieces of pizza. Pizza is listed, but it's not specific what kind of pizza. Thin crust frozen pizza is undoubtedly lower in calories than the doughy, greasy pizza I had from Papa John's. You kind of have to pick and choose from what's available and come up with the closest thing you can. It's a little frustrating, but relatively minor. For more accurate tracking, I'd check out [...]. If this program let you enter in an unlisted food by calories/fat/etc, it'd be a huge improvement. The other significant con is that there aren't enough personalization options. One challenge was to drink a glass of warm milk before bed. The challenges are all optional, but it'd be nice to input food allergies/intolerances (like a lactose intolerance) to prevent those challenges from appearing. Along the same lines, it encourages walking, which is GREAT if you don't live in an area like mine. When it told me to walk 500 steps, I walked the hallway of my apartment complex ten times. It's not entirely safe in my neighborhood, and I'm not going out there by myself. Case closed. It also encourages you to walk to the grocery store. Not gonna happen. I don't feel like ending up on the evening news. What I'll end up doing on the days I don't work will be to drive to a safer area. I'll update this if I have any new observations while using it. Good luck!

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many poor lifestyle habits at once. It didn't say "drink 64 ounces of water today and every day for the rest of your life." It just said to go drink a big glass of water. One of my physical challenges was to do ten lunges. I'm out of shape enough that it got my heart rate up, but it wasn't enough to wear me out. It wasn't enough to discourage me from doing it tomorrow. The interactivity of it will be a huge benefit. I have a shelf full of work out DVDs that would probably work wonders, but I don't have any ongoing encouragement to put them in. Results are never immediate, so it helps to have someone (even if it's a stick figure) to encourage you and even reward you for coming back. In fact, I might actually pull some of those DVDs off the shelf so that I can get in some of the physical activity the game asks me to do. Cons: Like some other reviewer mentioned, the game does not give enough options for entering food intake. For example: my first day, I had two pieces of pizza. Pizza is listed, but it's not specific what kind of pizza. Thin crust frozen pizza is undoubtedly lower in calories than the doughy, greasy pizza I had from Papa John's. You kind of have to pick and choose from what's available and come up with the closest thing you can. It's a little frustrating, but relatively minor. For more accurate tracking, I'd check out [...]. If this program let you enter in an unlisted food by calories/fat/etc, it'd be a huge improvement. The other significant con is that there aren't enough personalization options. One challenge was to drink a glass of warm milk before bed. The challenges are all optional, but it'd be nice to input food allergies/intolerances (like a lactose intolerance) to prevent those challenges from appearing. Along the same lines, it encourages walking, which is GREAT if you don't live in an area like mine. When it told me to walk 500 steps, I walked the hallway of my apartment complex ten times. It's not entirely safe in my neighborhood, and I'm not going out there by myself. Case closed. It also encourages you to walk to the grocery store. Not gonna happen. I don't feel like ending up on the evening news. What I'll end up doing on the days I don't work will be to drive to a safer area. I'll update this if I have any new observations while using it. Good luck!

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many poor lifestyle habits at once. It didn't say "drink 64 ounces of water today and every day for the rest of your life." It just said to go drink a big glass of water. One of my physical challenges was to do ten lunges. I'm out of shape enough that it got my heart rate up, but it wasn't enough to wear me out. It wasn't enough to discourage me from doing it tomorrow. The interactivity of it will be a huge benefit. I have a shelf full of work out DVDs that would probably work wonders, but I don't have any ongoing encouragement to put them in. Results are never immediate, so it helps to have someone (even if it's a stick figure) to encourage you and even reward you for coming back. In fact, I might actually pull some of those DVDs off the shelf so that I can get in some of the physical activity the game asks me to do. Cons: Like some other reviewer mentioned, the game does not give enough options for entering food intake. For example: my first day, I had two pieces of pizza. Pizza is listed, but it's not specific what kind of pizza. Thin crust frozen pizza is undoubtedly lower in calories than the doughy, greasy pizza I had from Papa John's. You kind of have to pick and choose from what's available and come up with the closest thing you can. It's a little frustrating, but relatively minor. For more accurate tracking, I'd check out [...]. If this program let you enter in an unlisted food by calories/fat/etc, it'd be a huge improvement. The other significant con is that there aren't enough personalization options. One challenge was to drink a glass of warm milk before bed. The challenges are all optional, but it'd be nice to input food allergies/intolerances (like a lactose intolerance) to prevent those challenges from appearing. Along the same lines, it encourages walking, which is GREAT if you don't live in an area like mine. When it told me to walk 500 steps, I walked the hallway of my apartment complex ten times. It's not entirely safe in my neighborhood, and I'm not going out there by myself. Case closed. It also encourages you to walk to the grocery store. Not gonna happen. I don't feel like ending up on the evening news. What I'll end up doing on the days I don't work will be to drive to a safer area. I'll update this if I have any new observations while using it. Good luck!

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many poor lifestyle habits at once. It didn't say "drink 64 ounces of water today and every day for the rest of your life." It just said to go drink a big glass of water. One of my physical challenges was to do ten lunges. I'm out of shape enough that it got my heart rate up, but it wasn't enough to wear me out. It wasn't enough to discourage me from doing it tomorrow. The interactivity of it will be a huge benefit. I have a shelf full of work out DVDs that would probably work wonders, but I don't have any ongoing encouragement to put them in. Results are never immediate, so it helps to have someone (even if it's a stick figure) to encourage you and even reward you for coming back. In fact, I might actually pull some of those DVDs off the shelf so that I can get in some of the physical activity the game asks me to do. Cons: Like some other reviewer mentioned, the game does not give enough options for entering food intake. For example: my first day, I had two pieces of pizza. Pizza is listed, but it's not specific what kind of pizza. Thin crust frozen pizza is undoubtedly lower in calories than the doughy, greasy pizza I had from Papa John's. You kind of have to pick and choose from what's available and come up with the closest thing you can. It's a little frustrating, but relatively minor. For more accurate tracking, I'd check out [...]. If this program let you enter in an unlisted food by calories/fat/etc, it'd be a huge improvement. The other significant con is that there aren't enough personalization options. One challenge was to drink a glass of warm milk before bed. The challenges are all optional, but it'd be nice to input food allergies/intolerances (like a lactose intolerance) to prevent those challenges from appearing. Along the same lines, it encourages walking, which is GREAT if you don't live in an area like mine. When it told me to walk 500 steps, I walked the hallway of my apartment complex ten times. It's not entirely safe in my neighborhood, and I'm not going out there by myself. Case closed. It also encourages you to walk to the grocery store. Not gonna happen. I don't feel like ending up on the evening news. What I'll end up doing on the days I don't work will be to drive to a safer area. I'll update this if I have any new observations while using it. Good luck!

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you are only hurting yourself when you do that.

On the whole, this is worth getting and using for all ages. It is a weight loss buddy. I can hardly wait to end my results today!

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you are only hurting yourself when you do that.



On the whole, this is worth getting and using for all ages. It is a weight loss buddy. I can hardly wait to end my results today!



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energy needs for the day. This is HIGHLY inaccurate because most folks wanting to lose weight are going to be eating at least *some* low fat/reduced calorie foods and beverages and this app doesn't take MOST of those into account;

5. the lack of accurate calorie counting is also dangerous because many people UNDER eat - skipping meals in a vain attempt to lose weight. I'm guilty of underfueling my body but you wouldn't know it from this program! And this is the DETAILED accounting I'm talking about - I tremble when I think of what dangerous inaccuracies you'd get in the QUICK view!

6. the company's customer service absolutely SUCKS! Ubisoft should train their call center much better! When I called to ask why the food and activity logs were locked for two days all the rep could come up with was "you're not far enough into the game." "What does THAT mean? This isn't a game so how far in do I have to be in order to simply enter my food and activity for a day? I've had this for a week!" "Umm, you're not far enough into the game - umm, hold on." After I was on hold for a full minute she proceeded to tell me (since someone evidently informed her this was a health app, not a game) that I should test the product by going to a retailer and using THEIR DS in order to see if the logs would unlock.

As I discovered when I skipped a day due to extreme busyness, the logs lock for 24 hours after your last entry of data so even if you don't say yes when asked "Wrap the day?" the logs become inaccessible anyway! I find this extremely STUPID because you should be able to enter your consumption and activity at any time of day or night that you feel like it and can fit it in! Ubisoft customer service apparently doesn't even know its' own products! And DON'T write/e-mail them through the support site. They looked at my (predetermined) headline and didn't read my question AT ALL. The headline had something to do with "Gameplay Trouble" (no other headline even approached being right and you didn't have an "other" option) and they sent me a bunch of links to a forum on action games. This was simply inexcusable. That's why I finally had to call them long distance and try to get some help. When I wrote them back they hadn't even read my question I never heard another peep out of them. Shame on you, Ubisoft!

7. The nutrition and exercise advice is fairly old and stale - just standard stuff being pushed by an animated stick figure with cheesy musical effects;

8. speaking of the stick figure - if you have low self-esteem and are significantly overweight I'd recommend avoiding this app altogether. I'm about 80 pounds from where I want to be. I entered my weight and watched the animated stereotype of a girl (a dress and a bow on the bald head) grow to humongous proportions while straining the scale and ending up with ONE LARGE TOOTH. What the H -E - double hockey sticks is THAT about? Being fat turns you into a one toothed freak or something?? I'm copying this review and sending it to Ubisoft so that they know *precisely* how unfunny I think that particular animation really is.


Now for the pros (don't blink, you'll miss 'em!):

1. It's a good place to keep track of raw data as you lose (or detect "some" patterns when you don't);

2. If you're fairly motivated it's a nice place to get some tips and general information in one place instead of having to surf the 'net all over;

3. If you NEVER pay full price (I found it for $19.99 on sale locally) you won't regret a HUGE loss of the money - just some buyer's remorse cause it could have bought four really good Starbucks' drinks!

4. It 'does' give a daily nudge when used daily and sometimes one does need to be reminded even of what one already knows.

That's it from my end - what did YOU think of it?

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energy needs for the day. This is HIGHLY inaccurate because most folks wanting to lose weight are going to be eating at least *some* low fat/reduced calorie foods and beverages and this app doesn't take MOST of those into account;



5. the lack of accurate calorie counting is also dangerous because many people UNDER eat - skipping meals in a vain attempt to lose weight. I'm guilty of underfueling my body but you wouldn't know it from this program! And this is the DETAILED accounting I'm talking about - I tremble when I think of what dangerous inaccuracies you'd get in the QUICK view!



6. the company's customer service absolutely SUCKS! Ubisoft should train their call center much better! When I called to ask why the food and activity logs were locked for two days all the rep could come up with was "you're not far enough into the game." "What does THAT mean? This isn't a game so how far in do I have to be in order to simply enter my food and activity for a day? I've had this for a week!" "Umm, you're not far enough into the game - umm, hold on." After I was on hold for a full minute she proceeded to tell me (since someone evidently informed her this was a health app, not a game) that I should test the product by going to a retailer and using THEIR DS in order to see if the logs would unlock.



As I discovered when I skipped a day due to extreme busyness, the logs lock for 24 hours after your last entry of data so even if you don't say yes when asked "Wrap the day?" the logs become inaccessible anyway! I find this extremely STUPID because you should be able to enter your consumption and activity at any time of day or night that you feel like it and can fit it in! Ubisoft customer service apparently doesn't even know its' own products! And DON'T write/e-mail them through the support site. They looked at my (predetermined) headline and didn't read my question AT ALL. The headline had something to do with "Gameplay Trouble" (no other headline even approached being right and you didn't have an "other" option) and they sent me a bunch of links to a forum on action games. This was simply inexcusable. That's why I finally had to call them long distance and try to get some help. When I wrote them back they hadn't even read my question I never heard another peep out of them. Shame on you, Ubisoft!



7. The nutrition and exercise advice is fairly old and stale - just standard stuff being pushed by an animated stick figure with cheesy musical effects;



8. speaking of the stick figure - if you have low self-esteem and are significantly overweight I'd recommend avoiding this app altogether. I'm about 80 pounds from where I want to be. I entered my weight and watched the animated stereotype of a girl (a dress and a bow on the bald head) grow to humongous proportions while straining the scale and ending up with ONE LARGE TOOTH. What the H -E - double hockey sticks is THAT about? Being fat turns you into a one toothed freak or something?? I'm copying this review and sending it to Ubisoft so that they know *precisely* how unfunny I think that particular animation really is.





Now for the pros (don't blink, you'll miss 'em!):



1. It's a good place to keep track of raw data as you lose (or detect "some" patterns when you don't);



2. If you're fairly motivated it's a nice place to get some tips and general information in one place instead of having to surf the 'net all over;



3. If you NEVER pay full price (I found it for $19.99 on sale locally) you won't regret a HUGE loss of the money - just some buyer's remorse cause it could have bought four really good Starbucks' drinks!



4. It 'does' give a daily nudge when used daily and sometimes one does need to be reminded even of what one already knows.



That's it from my end - what did YOU think of it?

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ppointment.

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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.

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accurate.

All in all, it's a good concept, but I think it needs some tweaking!

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accurate.

All in all, it's a good concept, but I think it needs some tweaking!

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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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there are challenges - both food and activity related, both short term ("do now") and longer term ("do by tomorrow"). Sometimes the items are easy - hide the salt, clean out the fridge. Sometimes they are more complicated, like go out jogging. However, sometimes they are just non-doable for some people. Go jogging and don't come home until you spot an animal? Go bake some bread from scratch? Organize a team sport and get your family and friends to play? I can easily see some gamers getting frustrated by these types of challenges because they simply don't have the supplies or ability to do them in their environment.

The DS will say something like "do 20 lunges" but give you no idea how to do them. You have to go find your manual and look it up. With other activity DS games I have, they explain the activity to you and have animated demonstrations.

Even some of their "coaching tests" seem not quite kosher. They rate you down if you drive a car to the corner store rather than walking. Some of us don't have "corner stores" within safe walking distance.

For daily food tracking, they don't use calories or carbs or other normal units. They use "energy units" which means the things you're learning will be completely unhelpful in the real world. Also, the interface is again extremely tedious. Let's say you ate a serving of turkey. You have to go paging through the general food types, find the poultry area and drag down a poultry item. It then separates into different types of poultry - turkey, chicken and breaded chicken. You drag one of the turkey items onto the person. You have to do that with every single food you eat, all day long.

I definitely appreciate what it is trying to do, and I imagine most people would find it cute for a week or two, but I really don't see most users going through that tedious interface for more than that.

Finally, the game is very much set up for completely sedentary people. Its idea of activity is to stand and sit 10 times. If you are not in the "obese" range, I am not sure their activities are really going to help you become more healthy. Even for obese people, I think there are many other better options out there to help you improve your health.

Still, if you really love your DS and don't own a pedometer, this isn't a *bad* choice. I am all for people using whatever works for them. If you don't mind this interface and enjoy the little challenges, then have at it! Being active this way is far better than being inactive.

Rating: 3/5

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there are challenges - both food and activity related, both short term ("do now") and longer term ("do by tomorrow"). Sometimes the items are easy - hide the salt, clean out the fridge. Sometimes they are more complicated, like go out jogging. However, sometimes they are just non-doable for some people. Go jogging and don't come home until you spot an animal? Go bake some bread from scratch? Organize a team sport and get your family and friends to play? I can easily see some gamers getting frustrated by these types of challenges because they simply don't have the supplies or ability to do them in their environment.



The DS will say something like "do 20 lunges" but give you no idea how to do them. You have to go find your manual and look it up. With other activity DS games I have, they explain the activity to you and have animated demonstrations.



Even some of their "coaching tests" seem not quite kosher. They rate you down if you drive a car to the corner store rather than walking. Some of us don't have "corner stores" within safe walking distance.



For daily food tracking, they don't use calories or carbs or other normal units. They use "energy units" which means the things you're learning will be completely unhelpful in the real world. Also, the interface is again extremely tedious. Let's say you ate a serving of turkey. You have to go paging through the general food types, find the poultry area and drag down a poultry item. It then separates into different types of poultry - turkey, chicken and breaded chicken. You drag one of the turkey items onto the person. You have to do that with every single food you eat, all day long.



I definitely appreciate what it is trying to do, and I imagine most people would find it cute for a week or two, but I really don't see most users going through that tedious interface for more than that.



Finally, the game is very much set up for completely sedentary people. Its idea of activity is to stand and sit 10 times. If you are not in the "obese" range, I am not sure their activities are really going to help you become more healthy. Even for obese people, I think there are many other better options out there to help you improve your health.



Still, if you really love your DS and don't own a pedometer, this isn't a *bad* choice. I am all for people using whatever works for them. If you don't mind this interface and enjoy the little challenges, then have at it! Being active this way is far better than being inactive.



Rating: 3/5

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information about nutrition. It is a shame that it fell short when it came to the "food balance" part. Surely information about the food pyramid and healthy food exchanges is not too difficult to program into a game? Instead of the wonky pedometer, the manufacturers could have included a small calorie counter.

I think Nintendo DS would be a great platform for a program that encourages exercise *and* helps you select a balanced diet. I am looking forward to it.

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program is educational in a friendly way and provides customized feedback and suggestions based on your preferences and the results of mini-assessments. You have daily objectives and challenges to meet - some are playful and funny. But every objective met is rewarded in terms of miles traveled to interesting sights.

There are some downsides and places where the game can be improved. The provided pedometer is a little bulky, but you can substitute any pedometer you prefer and enter your daily step total by hand. The food lists also do not give you feedback on nutritional value of choices. The program itself reminds you to eat a diverse diet, but you could live on junk food with this game and still make your objectives. Finally, as another review mentioned, there is no way to correct mistakes, and I have yet to find a way to review details about food or exercise in a day.

Overall, if you have DS already and want to lose weight, I recommend this program.

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game gives you bonuses if you meet certain goals during the day. The bonuses are given as "distance". What that means is that they add miles to your total amount walked with the pedometer to give you an even higher distance number. I ended up with 15.4 miles yesterday even though with the pedometer I only actually walked 4.3! Seems there should have been something else they could have done with the "bonuses" instead of making it look like you walked a heck of a lot more than you actually did."

6- NOW ADDING THE FOOD TO THIS WEIGHT LOSS COACH IS A WHOLE DIFFERENT STORY DON'T EVEN MAKE A MISTAKE THERE IS NO ERASER ONCE YOU ADDED IT WELL IT'S A DONE THING

I PERSONALLY RETURNED THIS ITEM SO IT COULD BE RETURNED TO THE MANUFACTURE BECAUSE OF ALL OF ITS FLAWS ON NOT WORKING CORRECTLY IT DID NOT WORK AS IT STATES IN ITS OWN LOVELY REVIEW

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game gives you bonuses if you meet certain goals during the day. The bonuses are given as "distance". What that means is that they add miles to your total amount walked with the pedometer to give you an even higher distance number. I ended up with 15.4 miles yesterday even though with the pedometer I only actually walked 4.3! Seems there should have been something else they could have done with the "bonuses" instead of making it look like you walked a heck of a lot more than you actually did."

6- NOW ADDING THE FOOD TO THIS WEIGHT LOSS COACH IS A WHOLE DIFFERENT STORY DON'T EVEN MAKE A MISTAKE THERE IS NO ERASER ONCE YOU ADDED IT WELL IT'S A DONE THING

I PERSONALLY RETURNED THIS ITEM SO IT COULD BE RETURNED TO THE MANUFACTURE BECAUSE OF ALL OF ITS FLAWS ON NOT WORKING CORRECTLY IT DID NOT WORK AS IT STATES IN ITS OWN LOVELY REVIEW

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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.

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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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and exercising in equal measures. Many diets are a very mild form of eating disorder, so one should always be careful and watch for signs of illness in yourself when starting one. But this game is a sane way to approach health improvement. It stresses that small changes make big differences in the long run. The long run is key here. Drastic is not applauded by your (totally cute) stick figure weight loss coach.

I did not buy this game hoping to lose a megaton of weight. I just wanted something fun that helped me keep my nutrition and fitness goals on track, and for that this game is great. I love the challenges. I love the coaching sessions which focus on energy and health rather than obsessing over the number on the scale.

And for people who do want to slim down, this is actually a good way to do it. I think that one would be hard pressed to exhibit her latent eating disorder tendencies using a game like this. It doesn't let you. It's always talking about how as you increase your activity, you must increase your food intake in order to build muscle and keep a steady energy level.

It's not for those who might be training for a marathon, but if you would like to improve your health and maybe lose a little weight in the process, this is an excellent game for you. This game should be called "My Health Coach". I'd be way more excited about advertising how awesome it is to people if that were the case. But it is. Awesome.

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that is an easy remedy, you just use another pedometer.
I use the Omron walking style pedometer which can be carried in your pocket, records distance, calories burned, & keeps a record of all the steps you've walked for the past 7 days.

That said, this is a fun & simple program which might work particularly well for overweight children. In fact, I'm guessing that's it's target demographic.

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away, picking up groceries as you walk the dog is NOT practical and many of the physical challenges are based upon similar strategies. Perhaps on the next version when inputting your profile an urban/suburban/country location can be an option.

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I like how this coach tells you to enter all the food you ate for the day and shows you how your exercise balances with your food choices...it sometimes tells you to set a goal of, for example, "try not to eat anything today that has any form of grease." Ok...cool! I can do that for 1 day or two...but you dont have to do that every day!

This is way cool. And would LOVE a part 2 later on down the road. I would buy part 2 now if they had it just so I'd be ready for it. It's so interesting what they do with a Nintendo DS these days! WAY TO GO N2DS!

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I like how this coach tells you to enter all the food you ate for the day and shows you how your exercise balances with your food choices...it sometimes tells you to set a goal of, for example, "try not to eat anything today that has any form of grease." Ok...cool! I can do that for 1 day or two...but you dont have to do that every day!



This is way cool. And would LOVE a part 2 later on down the road. I would buy part 2 now if they had it just so I'd be ready for it. It's so interesting what they do with a Nintendo DS these days! WAY TO GO N2DS!

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What that means is that they add miles to your total amount walked with the pedometer to give you an even higher distance number. I ended up with 15.4 miles yesterday even though with the pedometer I only actually walked 4.3! Seems there should have been something else they could have done with the "bonuses" instead of making it look like you walked a heck of a lot more than you actually did.

I plan to keep using this for a while longer, but overall, it is a bit of a disappointment (especially for $40).

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the goals were not intimidating or out of reach for the average person and it's a EXCELLENT motavation tool. The CONS of this for me were when i was going through step by step and a the page turned their was no way you could go to the previous page, VERY ANNOYING! some stuff i wanted to read over and had no way of getting back to it, you cant stop and save right on the spot either so if you shut it off you have to start all over again. This was just in the beggining part of the game, the other annoying part was not being able to reverse a wrong choice or being able to cancel a challenge, maybe im not doing it right ( i am new to nintendo ds ) but this game should have a "go back" or something like that on all of its pages so you can back out and re-read things or make changes. And hey Nintendo!!! did you even consider that people have different diets??? im a vegetarian ( no eggs and no dairy in my diet ever!) so that is a problem for me when it comes to some of the food choices, i just skip that and replace it with something similar, its not that hard, it just would of been nice if the game had asked about the foods you ate or avoided when making your profile. Surely im not the only vegetarian out there! Hope this review helps!

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the goals were not intimidating or out of reach for the average person and it's a EXCELLENT motavation tool. The CONS of this for me were when i was going through step by step and a the page turned their was no way you could go to the previous page, VERY ANNOYING! some stuff i wanted to read over and had no way of getting back to it, you cant stop and save right on the spot either so if you shut it off you have to start all over again. This was just in the beggining part of the game, the other annoying part was not being able to reverse a wrong choice or being able to cancel a challenge, maybe im not doing it right ( i am new to nintendo ds ) but this game should have a "go back" or something like that on all of its pages so you can back out and re-read things or make changes. And hey Nintendo!!! did you even consider that people have different diets??? im a vegetarian ( no eggs and no dairy in my diet ever!) so that is a problem for me when it comes to some of the food choices, i just skip that and replace it with something similar, its not that hard, it just would of been nice if the game had asked about the foods you ate or avoided when making your profile. Surely im not the only vegetarian out there! Hope this review helps!

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the goals were not intimidating or out of reach for the average person and it's a EXCELLENT motavation tool. The CONS of this for me were when i was going through step by step and a the page turned their was no way you could go to the previous page, VERY ANNOYING! some stuff i wanted to read over and had no way of getting back to it, you cant stop and save right on the spot either so if you shut it off you have to start all over again. This was just in the beggining part of the game, the other annoying part was not being able to reverse a wrong choice or being able to cancel a challenge, maybe im not doing it right ( i am new to nintendo ds ) but this game should have a "go back" or something like that on all of its pages so you can back out and re-read things or make changes. And hey Nintendo!!! did you even consider that people have different diets??? im a vegetarian ( no eggs and no dairy in my diet ever!) so that is a problem for me when it comes to some of the food choices, i just skip that and replace it with something similar, its not that hard, it just would of been nice if the game had asked about the foods you ate or avoided when making your profile. Surely im not the only vegetarian out there! Hope this review helps!

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to cancel the request.
2. Also, I got a food challenge of eating hard boiled eggs... this stuff makes me nauseous even when I smell it. Where's the menu option that lets you cross out foods you don't eat??

I'm going to keep using it and hopefully some of these cons will be out weighted by future results.