Shed weight with the Nintendo DS

by Steven Williamson on 12 February 2008, 14:53

Tags: My Weight Loss Coach , DS, Simulation

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Comes bundled with a pedometer

Teach you French, help you to develop your vocabulary and maths skills, improve your IQ, is there anything that the DS can’t do? How about helping you to lose weight? Surely, that would be too much for the hand-held to cope with?

Apparently not, courtesy of Ubisoft, My Weight Loss Coach is a program designed to help us focus on taking positive steps to maintain a healthy lifestyle.

My Weight Loss Coach falls under the ‘casual games’ cateogory and will also come with a pedometer peripheral allowing you to monitor your daily physical exertions.

Ubisoft say that botha professional fitness coach and a nutritionist were on hand to help them create the piece of software, with which you’ll be able to create customised coaching sessions.

My Weight Loss Coach features include:
• 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: Log your progress on a daily or weekly basis, tracking your physical activity and nutrition habits
• The Pedometer: A peripheral device that comes with the game and can be 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 the physical activities you achieve and good nutrition habits you acquire are converted into measurable distances based on real examples