Woman Loses 112 Pounds by Using Wii Fit
When Wii Fit first launched, a lot of people rushed out to buy it thinking that it would solve all their fitness problems. Unfortunately, for a lot of people, the Nintendo Wii peripheral didn't change a thing.
However, one woman in the UK has proved that if you combine your Wii Fit work-outs with a balanced and healthy diet, the device can be just as beneficial as real yoga classes and regular trips to the gym.
The News of the World reports that Lara Roberts, a wife and mother of two, managed to drop eight stone or 112 pounds by eating healthy and using Wii Fit every morning. The 38-year-old woman said she was becoming increasinlgy depressed about her weight but only kicked her 4,000 calories-per-day diet when a friend commented that she never seemed to stop eating.
In early 2008, Lara purchased Wii Fit because she wanted to get healthy but couldn't face going to a gym or jogging in the street. Waking at 5 a.m. every morning, she worked out with her Wii Fit and swapped her junk food diet for healthier food.
Just over a year on she has dropped from 252 pounds to 140 pounds.
Read more here.
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Good for her! I'd try that too but don't have a wii. Maybe I should use the treadmill thats been collecting dust
Wow if those are real before and after pics then she did good. But what many people fail to do is also cut back on eating when your trying to lose weight. If all you do is eat and then work out a little you wont get much out other than burning off a little bit of what you just ate.
I smell another Jared.
In reality it probably is 85% just eating healthier...gj tho!
the weight loss is still 90% due to her change of foods, rather than the Wii fit
people have a misconception of what the major factor is in getting fit
Good for her, but it wasn't only the Wii Fit that helped. Half of the battle is changing the diet, which she did.
Weight loss is a simple equation. Calories in vs calories out. Wii fit helped with calories out, and her change of diet helped with calories in.
wow, though something tells me the WiiFit was not the catalyst for this, only a variable.
Still big upgrade for the husband. Unless he's a chubby chaser
Nintendo should jump on that. Advertise during "The Biggest Loser" and such. Another Jared Fogel-type hype that could sell even more Wii Fits, eh? Maybe too many people have already purchased them and realized that it doesn't inherently make you lose weight by owning it... you actually have to use it?! We'll see... we'll see.
I bet the husband has a big grin on his face now.
Good for her, but I'm sure that the healthier diet had a LOT more to do with it than the Wii did.
She needs to get out more. Look how white her skin is!
Wii fit supplemented by crack = weight loss
In reality it probably is 85% just eating healthier...gj tho!
Probably 95%. I lost 24 pounds in 2 months (from 214 to 190 pounds) just by eating less and better food. No more exercise than before. I was surprised.
Yes, exercise is very healthy for you, but it doesnt necessarily lead to weight loss. The type and quantity of food you eat will have a much greater impact.
losing weight isn't only by eating healthy. it's also by exercising.
A combination of eating healthy and exercise definitely results in mutiple benefits. It's not just about weight loss.
Good for her! I'm loving my Wii which my wife gave me for this past Christmas. I'm especially stuck on tennis and it's quite a workout. I'll be getting Wii Fit in the next couple of months.
She went from "No, Thanks." to "Yes, Please!".
Now, all she has to get is the Wii hair bleaching kit and eye makeup remover. :-)
OK, now there is no excuse for not being able to shed some poundage..
4,000 calorie diet to...what? I would be willing to be a diet change is more like 90% of the difference here, along with some moderate changes in workout. Someone who weighs 800lbs will lose a ton of weight just in diet chane alone, WITHOUT exercise. The problem is, 95% of the population will read the headline "Wii helps woman lose 112lbs" (Yahoo) and they will believe it. I need to start preying on the intellectually inferior...apparently its working very well...
Wii might have kept her from eating all the time. So the diet became less than her usual. So the weight lost is not necessary Wii. Anything that kept her attention from food could have help loose that weight.
I bet the husband has a big grin on his face now.
I bet hes huge into porn cause she is still gawd awful ugly.
But losing that much weight is a great achievement, hats off to her.
This is a good add for the great construction of the balance board! 252 pounds of woman jumping on it for a year and still working.
Key here is "swapped her junk food diet for healthier food."
Diet is more important than any workout program. People fail to realize this when they set goals. If you go to the gym to get in shape but your diet is poor, results will also be poor. I highly doubt the exercises a Wii Fit has has the potential to be part of that weight loss without an extreme diet change. Again, Diet...not Wii Fit.
Wii FAT
I'm wondering if the Wii Fit is the only exercise she did. A lot of times with stories like these they leave out the details such as "Every day worked out on Wii Fit at 5AM for 30 minutes... then ran 10 miles."
Regardless of how she did it, good for her. It's much harder to change bad eating habits as an adult than it is to hop on the Wii Fit for an hour a day. She looks great, especially if those are real before and after pictures. Wowza.
I bet hes huge into porn cause she is still gawd awful ugly.But losing that much weight is a great achievement, hats off to her.This is a good add for the great construction of the balance board! 252 pounds of woman jumping on it for a year and still working.
Reaaaaal nice.
If she bought a wii fit cause she was to ashamed to work out at a gym I doubt she ran everyday or did anything public.
Most people called BS on Wii fit, but hear me out:
If you actually take the time to use Wii fit, it works. Most of the programs on it make you do real excercise, like pushups and running in place and stuff. So naturally you lose weight if you do it.
Not losing weight from Wii fit is like not losing weight from the gym... it's probably beacuse you don't go enough, not because of the quality of the equipment.
Most people called BS on Wii fit, but hear me out:If you actually take the time to use Wii fit, it works. Most of the programs on it make you do real excercise, like pushups and running in place and stuff. So naturally you lose weight if you do it.Not losing weight from Wii fit is like not losing weight from the gym... it's probably beacuse you don't go enough, not because of the quality of the equipment.
It's not that the Wii Fit doesn't work. It's that diet is much more of a component to weight loss than working out is. The article's headline makes it look like the Wii fit is responsible without considering diet and lifestyle changes. Losing that much weight doesn't come from "just" a Wii Fit.