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My Weight Loss Coach | 
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| From: UBI Soft
Category: Video Games
List Price: $39.99
Buy New: $37.99
You Save: $2.00 (5%)
New (23) Used (5) from $33.98
Avg. Customer Rating:  29 reviews
Sales Rank: 380
Platform: Nintendo Ds
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Batteries Included: No
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
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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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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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
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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A Game That Wants You to Lose
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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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| Customer Reviews: Read 24 more reviews...
 Motivator and Helpful to an extent August 9, 2008
It is interesting to keep track of daily food intake and exercise so that I can see where I need to make improvements. However, there need to be improvements in the game. The food intake guide is very limited so you cant get a real accurate count of calories. Also the fitness input is limited. If you are just looking for an assistance for motivation this is a good "game" to purchase. But if you are looking for precise details, you may not be pleased.
used to hate exercising... August 5, 2008
I agree with the other reviews that the nutrition part is lacking in this game, but it is a lot less stressful to pick foods i've eaten than spend time researching exactly how many calories a food has. The pedometer has really motivated me to get up and move a lot. I'm a junior in college and my weight fluctuates a lot because it's hard to eat healthily there and i only exercise intensely before spring break. This game has helped me get on a steady routine that I can definetely keep up with, even if it does just include walking 30 minutes a day on the treadmill. People who are really serious about weight loss should maybe count their calories separately but I am just trying to maintain weight so I like that it encourages me to eat more than I normally do.
 Disappointed August 2, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This game is a good concept, but it's too easy to put down. The pedometer is a bit bulky to wear with my work clothes at the office. The "side games" are informative and your little coach character is the cutest thing. Unfortunately, that's not enough to keep me coming back. Logging the food you eat each day was very difficult. Instead of picking from a written list you tap on pictures of food. Sometimes I wasn't quite sure what type of food the picture represented. The foods shown are very limited and there is no way to know what a serving is. If you tap on a food and realize you made a mistake, you can't fix it. I used the game for about a week and then lost all interest. Chalk up another wasted $[...] to my weight loss quest. My recommendation is to use the old reliable Weight Watchers program. Leave your DS for video games.
 Gets you up and moving!! July 30, 2008
I really like this game. As a person who would not join a gym for exercise, this game encourages you to move around and eat healthy. The food part is not necessarily a diet to get thin as showing you how to eat a more balanced diet. I love the little stick woman!!
"Food Balance" Section Measures Only Calories, Not Nutrition July 29, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This product could be dangerous if you expect it to calculate a "balanced diet" for you. What it means by "balanced" is that the calories of the food you have consumed are sufficient to "balance" the calories you have expended. I had been reporting the food I had eaten (you pull various food icons from the different food groups over to a cartoon figure) for over a week but one day, when I had eaten too many carbs and not enough vegetables, I started to get uneasy. While the program said the diet was "balanced" I knew it was not nutritionally balanced. The next day I calculated my food exchanges on a piece of paper, but instead of what I had actuall eaten I put down that I had consumed nothing but chicken. The program said this diet was "balanced". The next day I did the same thing, only instead of what I had actually eaten I told the program I had eaten nothing but candy. Again, it said my diet was "balanced".
This game is good in that it offers incentive to exercise, and a lot of good 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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