My Weight Loss Coach DS is a game for every adult, male and female who considers reaching and maintaining their target weight as 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.

User Reviews about My Weight Loss Coach

After trying my weight loss coach for the DS for over two months, in conjuction to wii fit and my own personal pedometer, I can finally give my review for the weight loss coach 3 stars, but 4 stars for motivation.

I travel a lot, and basically have no chance to work out. When I come back to my assigned office to work, I find myself sitting in an office for hours, needless to say I barely walked more than 1000 steps a day. So, for someone like myself who works over 50 hours a week, I could not find time or the added motivation to include something like this in my life. When given to me my by fiancee, I tried it and found it to be FUN. At first it asked me to drink some water, then walk 500 steps, then it asked me to take a quiz so I can reflect on the reality of my activity levels. IF YOU LET IT, this can be a great motivational tool for weight loss or the achievement towards a healthier lifestyle. This game gives you challenges to complete and if you complete it, you obtain more miles on your game. I especially like how you can describe what food you consumed in the day, it's pretty cute how the food falls out of the description that you click and essentially, you put it in the stick figure's mouth. The overall game is pretty cute and as I mentioned before, can be very motivational if you want it to be.

However, there are some minor issues alongside the positives..depending on how you look at it. The pedometer is WAY off, by approx. 200 steps or so. I noticed this when I was walking up a hill on my travels to San Francisco and there are a lot of hills, so I bought a personal pedometer (Omron HJ112 Digital Pedometer) so I can see the difference. Also, when I got home to my long time friend the 'wii fit' and walked on the board I tested it many times and found that it is approx. 200 steps off. Both my Omron pedometer and wii fit matched steps, but NOT this pedometer. Maybe, possibly,?? I got a defective one :.( But I doubt it. Since this was only 15 dollars I can't complain much.

Secondly, DO NOT enter the steps you take until you are about to nap. I tried to change some things in terms of how much I ate, however you are not given an option to change your day's activities and food intake after you enter the information. It is also a little frustrating when you eat a balanced meal and the games tells you that you are not balanced. I count ALL my calories and my best friend is a nutrionalist, so I am well aware of my diet...so it's a little off as well.

Overall, I still think this is FUN! It makes me try to reach a higher goal that I usually would in terms of walking and working out. Although it is approx. 200 steps off, I see that as a challenge more so than a turn off. This got me off my butt and I always give myself a gift when I accomplished a good week of 80,000 steps....A great motivational tool if you can work with the defects of the game.

I hope this helps :.) -- Great motivational tool for weight loss, but NOT as accurate as other devices in the market.

My Weight Loss Coach is okay but not very practical unless you live by and always carry your DS Lite. -- ok help tool

Purchased it a while ago and finally decided to start using it. Within the first day of using it I saw an improvement in my quest to lose weight and take better care of myself. It is like my handy little personal trainer that I can take with me everywhere. Definitely cheaper and more convenient than the cost of a trainer from a gym.

The game is giving me the tools to not only manage my time better but also educating me on the proper way to be healthy and realistic in how fast things will happen. It covers nutrition along with fitness in simplistic fun ways. It stresses that you need water along with fruits and vegetables in your everyday diet. In regards to fitness, by simply walking is a foot in the right direction to getting fit and with the pedometer that is included with the game attached to your hip all day you can see your progress.


Its a great game...

The booklet that comes with it not only instructs you on how to use the game properly it also gives you examples of exercises you can do and the proper way to do them without injury to self. Great tool...

That said, the only negative is the large size and construction of the pedometer...
- bigger than your avg pedometer so there is no way for it to be discretely attached to the waist band of your gear.

- the clip is so snug that you have to be very careful attaching it to the waist band of your gear or it feels like it may break...

- the bottom piece that is supposed to protect the inner working of the device falls off so it will have to be monitored by one at all times or be taped up to stay in place.

-battery piece also wants to fall off so that part will also need to be taped up as well because if the battery falls out, you will have lost all the data already collected for the day...


So if you have not guessed it already I definitely recommend this game despite the high maintenance pedometer!!


-- So far so good!!!

A likable, amusing tool that pretends to be a game. However, as others have mentioned, the pedometer included is NOT suitable for the DSi so those of us with the "i"s have to manually plug in the information, which is quite easy. I found the pedometer too large and the clip too tight to be of practical use to me anyway. It's also overly sensitive unless you place it properly. I would recommend using a different pedometer - preferably something that has a well designed clip and a safety clip so you don't end up inadvertently dropping it into a toilet or some similar mishap. Yes, you'll have to 'tap up' your step tally manually but I suspect manual entry is probably just as fast and maybe even easier than trying to pry the game's pedometer off (with it's absurdly tight, solid piece clip), removing the rubber plug, fitting it into the device, etc. It's too bad this game didn't come with a tiny pedometer like the 'Personal Trainer: Walking' game, which is surprisingly small and beams the information directly into the game card (but doesn't have a display on the pedometer.)

The 'game' has various items designed to motivate you, make you more aware of your eating and exercise habits, and to challenge you -- ever so gently -- in a friendly, nonjudgmental way. There's 4 daily objectives the game would like you to meet: 1) The Pedometer, for which it will give you a target # of steps it would like you to accomplish for the day. 2) The Challenge section, in which YOU select which challenges you would like to try to complete, usually in the next 24 hours. The game wants you to do one challenge a day but you can select up to 6, if you wish. Challenges might include something as simple as putting a grocery list on your refrigerator to walking for an hour to Minute Challenges, which are quick exercises, like doing x amount of push-ups or jumping jacks. If you don't complete a challenge, no big deal. You can always select others that are more suitable to your lifestyle. 3) Physical Activity challenges you to be physically active for a certain amount of time for that day. The choice of your activity or activities is entirely up to you, from high-energy sports to doing housework. (The more energetic the activity, the more 'food credit', you might say, you will get.) 4) Then there's Food Balance, in which you log in what you ate and drank for the day (choosing a similar item if the actual item isn't listed.) As with the Physical Activity section, you can choose either a quick entry or a more detailed entry. (I recommend using the detailed entry unless you failed to keep track of what you consumed for the day and need to take a wild guess.)

The actual goal is to balance your food intake with your energy output so you can accomplish whatever weight goal you are aiming for (gaining, maintaining, or losing weight.) Thinking about dessert? Check to see if you can 'afford' it by seeing just how much of a food allowance you still have left for the day. Still want that dessert? The program will help give you an idea of how much more physical activity you're going to need to do before your caloric output matches your input.

Your guide along this journey to a healthier body is a stick figure who manages, somehow, to be quite charming even when he/she is wagging a finger at you or giving you a scowl. But no matter your trangression, your little stick figure guide is always supportive and enthusiastic and you can't help but smile at it sometimes. The program also includes Coaching sessions, which you 'earn', that instruct you about health strategies, quizzes to test your health/nutrition knowledge, tips about food and exercise strategies (some of which were excellent), and a few other odds and ends.

This is not a highly scientific, detailed program. It's a quick and easy tool to help you accomplish your weight goal. Sometimes it's a little too simplified but it's also quite clever BECAUSE it keeps things simple. Navigating the screens can be a bit tedious at times but they obviously did their best to keep everything straightforward and, let's face it, there's only so much you can do with a tiny unit like the DS(i) and a small screen. All-in-all, I'm finding this program a fun and easy way to keep track of my eating habits and a very useful tool for helping me avoid taking in more than I'm expending. If they come out with another, perhaps 'fuller' version, I'll be more than happy to snap that one up too. Maybe a larger, more detailed program for the Wii that can communicate with a simpler program for the DSi so we could have a more thorough tool AND portability? I can only dream. -- Fun, nonthreatening tool for your health