Keep fit with a stick man (My Health Coach: Manage Your Weight (DS))

Member Name: mizzy

Product:	My Health Coach: Manage Your Weight (DS)
Date:	08/09/08 (518 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Pedometer is good

Disadvantages: Not so motivating after a while

I bought this game as I think I need to get into some good habits and I would like to see if following these habits actually work.

I bought it from game, it was 30pounds but I paid 20 as I had some points to use. It came with the game in a normal ds box, and also an extra box which had the pedometer in it. This was all together in one big box. Quite a lot of needless packaging I thought.

When you first turn on the game there is a lot of entering your weight and height so make sure you do this first. You get a little man or woman as your trainer. They make cute little noises but they get annoying after a while so usually I play this game with the sound off.

I say game, but really its more of a daily chore at the moment. I know its for my own good, and it was quite exciting at the beginning. However, entering what you ate and how you exercised that day can only get boring.

Its quite good for keeping you motivated, your little person gets upset if you dont visit them for a few days, and I feel somewhat guilty if I dont log in my food and exercise.

The good thing is that if you enter your weight every few weeks, it does a graph so you can easily see if you are loosing or gaining weight. It also works out if your body mass index, bmi is healthy or not.

There are also a few mini lessons on how to look after yourself and things like choosing the right foods.

These lessons are used in daily challenges. You can do up to 6 challenges a day but I tend to only do about 3 because the challenges are starting to repeat themselves.

I do wear the pedometer every day. It fits neatly on my belt under my tshirt so no one can see it. It counts how many steps I do and is quite accurate, it takes a real good step to put a number on it.

You plug the pedometer into the ds and then you can upload the amount of steps. It measures this with how much exercise you have done and how much food you have eaten, and tells you if you are balanced for the day.

I have lost weight using this game, but I dont know if I will continue to be motivated by a little stick woman for a good length of time for it to really be worth the money.

Summary: Some would call it a waste of money