My Weight Loss Coach..Gaming to a New You
January 7, 2009 by Laurie
Filed under Contests, Product Reviews
So I was sitting here playing with my Nintendo DS and yes folks I do have one and it is pink. I enjoy playing the Brain Age Games, and well in the light of me wanting to lose some weight, I thought I would give the “My Weight Loss Coach” game a try. It is a lot of fun and it keeps all my information in one place so I can track my progress. It even comes with a pedometer so I can use it when the weather is nice or just wear it around the house because it seems like I never sit down anyway.
My Weight Loss Coach
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.
This is such a fun way to get in shape and it is almost like having your own personal trainer and motivation at your fingertips. The stick figure guy is so funny to watch! I received two of these games for the holiday so I thought I would share, by giving my readers a chance to win a copy of their own.
THIS CONTEST IS NOW CLOSED
Here’s what you gotta do:
Subscribe to my feed, and leave me one healthy lo cal snack or meal recipe that can help people in their quest to lose weight.
Leave me an email so I can contact you in you Win
You can have an extra entry if you put my button up on your blog or myspace, facebook pages.
That’s all ya gotta do!
Contest Starts January 7th, 2009 and Ends January 21,2009
Good Luck!!!!
Where is you Subscribe button? Here’s my recipe” cut up apples, bananas, and strawberries, and mix Cool Whip Lite with Lite Strawberry Jello, the small box. It’s a great low-cal dip.
I like popcorn with butter buds (healthier) and herbs or seasonings. Very low calorie, filling, and great fiber.
i like to eat sugar free jello pudding
beef stew and barley 230 cals
Low Fat Dessert
Angel Food Cake – Sugar Free
Fat Free – Sugar Free Jello
Fat Free Cool Whip
Poke Angel Food Cake with a straw, pour dissolved jello over cake. Let set in refrigerator until set. Cover with Cool Whip, slice and serve.
Would love to subscribe, can’t find the link.
Thanks for hosting a great giveaway.
I eat a handful of nuts. It is good for me and fills me up.
Eat crutons instead of chips or maybe pretzel sticks since they only have 1% of your daily total fat and a whole serving size is 51 whole pieces.
I like to snack on fruit or veggies because the calories are few, but they make you feel full!
I like the mini bags of low fat microwave popcorn.
I love Sugar free Jello or low fat popcorn.
Low fat dessert for me.
I subscribe with RSS. My favorite low-cal recipe is from Food Network. It’s an Orange Banana Smoothie.
1 1/2 cups freshly squeezed orange juice (4 oranges)
1 tablespoon freshly squeezed lime juice
1 cup strawberries, tops removed, and cut in 1/2
1 to 1 1/2 ripe bananas
Combine the orange juice, lime juice, strawberries, and banana in a blender and process until smooth. Refrigerate until cold.
subscriber…air popcorn or frozen grapes
sugar free jell-o
I like to snack from the bagged salads. Yep, eat lettuce just like chips! I like to dip them in salsa too.
This would be a help in my goals for this year
Make your own trail mix to take with you then when hungry strikes you can snack on dry fruit and nuts. Healthy, sustaining, low-sugar, high-fiber, and yummy.
Rice cakes- some are actually very good!
Veggies 🙂
i do need help
I love celery with low fat cream cheese…yum!
oh boy this would be great. I FOUND A GREAT DRINK THAT WILL CURB THE HUNGER PANGS. GREEN TEA WITH ACAI IN IT. IT WORKS FOR ME.
I’ve successfully subscribed to this feed! If you add a small glass of grapefruit juice to your morining or night meal, I’ve found it helps speed up weight loss. Thanks for a great giveaway!
Here is a quick snack that is filling and can satisfy cravings for both salty and sweet. Microwave 1 package of 100 calorie popcorn as directed, let it cool for a couple minutes and mix 1/3 of a package of M&Ms. The trick is not to eat the rest of the M&Ms.
I like to have a fresh fruit salad
Popcorn with no butter.
Also nuts are a good source of protein.
Peanuts are a great alternative to chips. They’re crunchy and taste great but healthier for you.
I like to wrap pickled asparagus in deli ham
Celery with peanut Butter
i love to have fruit smoothies, 1/2 cup strawberries, a banana, 1 cup of ice and enough orange juice to make it smooth. Yum!
Sugar-free jello
Take some low fat yogurt, mix in yummy fruit and…freeze it…okay I know its simple, but it makes me feel like I’m getting a frozen treat!
Love watermelon jello with fat-free cool whip.Please enter me, thank you
I drink English breakfast tea with raw honey in it. Mininal calories and very filling
I subscribed! My fave healthy snack has to be fresh fruit, or popped popcorn.
I love celery sticks and dip
Air-popped popcorn is a great alternative to high-calorie snacks. It really satisfies the “crunch” craving without adding fat and empty calories to your diet!
Got to be chocolate cake using no eggs—-just pumpkin pie filling.
Tastes yummy.good fiber and no oil
i just subscribed
i really love the DOLE fruit parfaits, they taste great, you get your fruit and sweet tooth on for only 110-130 calories
thanks for the cool contest!!
Jello has some great new sugar free varieties -banana fudge sundae is my favorite!
fruit
FRESH FRUIT AND POPCORN
I love having fresh raspberries with light whipped cream!
I also like to eat sugar free jello pudding. Thanks for the chance to win.
I like popping plain popcorn. It’s cruncy and you can eat a ton of it. If you need flavor, you can use butter spray.
My favorite low calorie snack is the 100 Calorie Popcorn bags. My favorite is the Kettle Corn. I like that it is very filling. Thanks!
I like the convience of sugar free pudding and the 100 calorie treats are awesome too!
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For a great tasting healthy meal, I like to bake fish with some olive oil and garlic and serve with asparagus lightly spritzed with I can’t believe it’s not butter spray and wild rice or quinoa seasoned with a little salt and pepper. It’s sooo good and so good for you.
I subscribe RSS via google reader.
I’ve lost 82 pounds (okay, 82.6 pounds!) in the past year and a half on Weight Watchers. I couldn’t have done it without 94% fat-free popcorn (any brand). I eat it nearly every night, and still lose weight.
Great giveaway. Thanks!
Momther of four and I need all the help I can get, god knows I am giving everyone else help
Subscribed. My favourite breakfast on the go:
20 unsalted almonds
1 can of v-8 juice (low sodium)= 3 servings of veggies
My favorite snack is strawberries!!ashlyn@chuparkoff.com
Normally I love fruit but during the winter not as easy to get; plus you have to watch how much you eat because some are full of natural sugar… During the winter I grab a handful of nuts… Great for you and easy to take with you if you are out and about….
Low fat yogurt with some fruit or granola is perfect high energy satisfying treat. Thank you for the great giveaway!
I subscribed!
I find eating yogurt is a nice replacement for heavy snacks. They have some new flavors like Strawwberry Cheesecake.
Grab one of these in the “light” version or sugar free instead of that bag of cookies.
Popcorn with butter-flavored popcorn salt. Sometimes you want something salty!
Sugar free and low fat diet is for me.
I like to eat peach yogurt with wheat germ.
Fat free jello pudding is good!
i subscribed
I subscribed to your feed.
Hey, a great snack is laughing cow light cheese and celery, or cuke slices and hummus.
I subscribed. I like celery or carrot sticks.
I put your button on my blog.
I get hungry for what I call “real food” when I’m on a diet. This is pretty close to the real thing…
Portobello “Philly Cheese Steak” Sandwich
Ingredients
2 teaspoons extra-virgin olive oil
1 medium onion, sliced
4 large portobello mushrooms, stems and gills removed (The dark gills found on the underside of a portobello are edible, but if you like you can scrape them off with a spoon.), sliced
1 large red bell pepper, thinly sliced
2 tablespoons minced fresh oregano or 2 teaspoons dried
1/2 teaspoon freshly ground pepper
1 tablespoon all-purpose flour
1/4 cup vegetable broth or reduced-sodium chicken broth
1 tablespoon reduced-sodium soy sauce
3 ounces thinly sliced reduced-fat provolone cheese
4 whole-wheat buns, split and toasted
Directions
Heat oil in a large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Add onion and cook, stirring often, until soft and beginning to brown, 2 to 3 minutes. Add mushrooms, bell pepper, oregano and pepper and cook, stirring often, until the vegetables are wilted and soft, about 7 minutes.
Reduce heat to low; sprinkle the vegetables with flour and stir to coat. Stir in broth and soy sauce; bring to a simmer. Remove from the heat, lay cheese slices on top of the vegetables, cover and let stand until melted, 1 to 2 minutes.
Divide the mixture into 4 portions with a spatula, leaving the melted cheese layer on top. Scoop a portion onto each toasted bun and serve immediately.
Thank you for the opportunity to participate in this giveaway!
Air popped popcorn, Apple Slices, 1 oz cheese cut into tiny cubes, a small handful of shelled nuts.