My Health Coach: Manage Your Weight (DS Game) (My Health Coach: Manage Your Weight (DS))

Member Name: JordanShannon

Product:	My Health Coach: Manage Your Weight (DS)
Date:	21/07/09 (153 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Practical, portable, quick and simple.

Disadvantages: Needs updating and a bit more work

Contents
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* Pedometer
* My Health Coach Game
* Instuctions (lots of packaging)

Personal Experience
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I initially brought this game to get me fit and healthy for summer, after all us 'normal people' have got to compete with the glamourous people of Celebville!
When you first start up the game you have to fill in information about yourself such as height, weight, age and information about your lifestyle. You then get a litlle stick person according to your own gender. The game then calculates your BMI and metabolic rate to which you will focus on reducing, sticking at or increasing.

My Health Coach is split into two sections; Daily Session and Backpack.
In Daily session there is 5 sessions to choose from:
*Pedometer - here you can record your daily steps
*Challenges - here you will see a various selection of envelopes on the screen, each of which contains different challenges pre-selected. The green envelopes are to do with food, the blue ones are to do with activity, the white ones are bonus envelopes with both food and activity challenges. There is also one pink envelope which the stick man chooses what you should do, but you don't know what the challenge is until you have agreed to it.
*Physical Activity - This is where you record the physical activity you have completed throughout the day
*Food Balance - This is where you record what foods you have eaten throughout the day. This isn't an exact representation of what you have eaten and how many calories each has. There is a limited number of selection.
*Calendar - this records your days of activity and your overall performance in each of the above sectors.

Backpack is also split into 5 sectors:
*Objectives - this records your progress, your album(picture taken of the number of kms you have walked for example a picture of your stick person is taken at the Paris Metro System at 260kms), Modifying Units (Km-miles etc)
*Coaching - this is where you are given varieties of questionnaires to fill out to enable a better health regime given to you by your health coach (stick man). You unlock these as you do more challenges and more workouts.
*Tips and Games - this is where you can play a variety of quizzes to give you a better understanding of your health and the things you eat. There are a few handy tips and facts that may push you to make more of an effort with exercise.
*Passport - This is where you can edit your profile; for example your age, weight and height. This will impact you coaching.
*Options - this is where you can edit microphone and audio settings.

The Health Coach is a great way to record your activity ouput and your food intake, it is easier to spot the bad habits once they're recorded. This game could easily be improved upon, for example the pedometer attatchment is easily broken and not easily replaced. They could; add more tips and facts, upgrade the quality of the game, and add a wider variety of foods.

Summary: Overall a good game but not quite there yet.