People need to read to lose weight with the Wii Fit? Oh come on..

Though I'm pretty sure there are a lot of people who'll buy this book and put it right next to their Wii Fit, just shedding the pounds while both go unused.

My palm is about ten seconds away from sticking out the back of my sku...

@EDS

I'm the same way, throughout the year I fluctuate between 220 and 250. I can never seem to get bellow 220 though and everytime I go off my diet, the weight comes back. I've decided to just make sure my cholesterol and blood pressure are at healthy levels and forget about my weight.

Epic. And the sad thing is that people will buy the book...

@EDS
So it's impossible to wake up early and exercise and quickly eat something during your shift? Obviously you play videogames, so there is free time. I would love to be on the couch playing Okami with all my free time, but I make sure to get to the gym atleast 4 times a week.

I think its all about making an effort and sticking to something. I think these crash diets are a big problem because people think they can drop a significant amount of weight and then go on about their lives. It's about changing your lifestyle if you want a lasting change, rather than a temporary one.

@Cartman - You're not overweight, just big-boned, right?

As for me, I'm pretty proud of the shape I'm in. I get in an hour of exercise about 5 days a week, with 10-20 minutes of cardio almost every day. Replacing junk food with fruits and nuts, and no longer eating out (unless with friends) has slimmed me down quite a bit in the last 6 months. Between the multiple small meals and constant snacking, I'm most definitely eating more now than I used to before - and I look much better.

@Matthew Razak:: Thanks for the warning, but I think I broke my nose...

@EternalDeathSlayer:

{standing ovation}

Although I think this book is useless, I too just love the attitudes of the idiots on this site who think that we all own bicycles in sub-tropical climates with no responsibilities so that we can always go outside and do whatever we want to lose weight, just so that we don't have any need for Wii Fit. I can't wait to see what happens when they get bitch-slapped (hard) with the realities of what a family life does to "free time".

@ John B: Relax dude. They're just young guys who don't know what it's like. I used to be the same way, until I had kids. Either way, thanks for the support.

They'll learn.

Isn't everything in this book already in the game manual?

Part of my brain is now exposed because I /facepalmed that hard. I'm sewing Nintendo.

Timmeh: No, we can't MAKE time. There is only so much in each day.

Sure, if I divorced my wife and told her to take the kids on the weekdays, then I could technically MAKE time for myself.

But I'm not a selfish dickhead.

@LOLFONDU: Yes, spoken like a complete ignoramus who has never touched Wii Fit and most likely couldn't deal with even the basics of the yoga or strength training exercises.

Oh, but far be it from me to tell you that you're clueless. So, by all means keep making a fool of yourself by acting like you know something that you really don't.

Everybody read DinnertimeNinja's post (I'll second the skim milk notion...I'll never go back to 2%. Tastes like a thick fucking shake now), and stop saying "It's impossible, my lifestyle doesn't allow it". You are making excuses. Yes, this is me on my 'high horse,' but dismissing it only as such only proves that you are happy sticking with the path you have made for yourself.

I work a desk job and managed to get into good enough shape to try out for the Arena Football League last year and the year before, and I am NOT some naturally gifted athlete who had it easy...I was an overweight fatass who couldn't climb a short flight of stairs without breathing heavy, yet I managed to put in the work while working fulltime to get my six pack back last year and in the best shape of my life. I still make time to get an early morning workout in before work, and somedays a bit of cardio afterward. I see many people working out at the gym who I know for a fact have children, several of them, and they still MAKE time to get fit. If you think that fitness means spending 2 hours or more a day working out, you are sadly mistaken and ill-informed. You can get workouts that are more effective in 20 minutes than you can in a lousy planned 2 hour session. You don't need to workout like a pro-athlete to get into great shape, it is a combination of eating healthy and working out SMART. That sometimes means doing workouts you don't like, like squats, or pull-ups, or high-intensity interval training, but the payoff is worth it.

There is absolutely NO reason you cannot get into shape, aside from laziness, which you can fix. If you're stuck in a job that is too rigid to allow you to be healthy, then a) find a new one or become an entrepreneur, as risking your health and well being for a paycheck is not worth it, not in the slightest, and b) what in the hell are you doing on a gaming forum, talking about video games (and presumably having enough time to play them if you have an opinion on them?). DO SOMETHING ABOUT YOUR SITUATION AND QUIT MAKING EXCUSES!

"What if you work a lot and have to eat late at night before bed? "
Can you eat at work? Make your last snack a handful of raw unsalted almonds (I get the Archer Farms stuff from Target, comes in a nice little container) or something. Eating something immediately before sleeping is not healthy eating, anyway. You should give yourself an hour at least after eating a late night snack. Honestly, healthy eating along with some light cardio and some weight training will do wonders for you.

"Trust me, it's really hard for a lot of people. What works for me when I get too fat is that stupid Atkins diet. It helps me drop like 40 lbs in 3 months, then I drop the diet and gain most of it back slowly over a year."
There's a good part of your problem. You're not making a permanent change, instead you are doing a temporary drastic change and results in your body yo-yo-ing in weight.

"Sure, if I divorced my wife and told her to take the kids on the weekdays, then I could technically MAKE time for myself. "
Excuses! You will not find only single people working out at gyms. There are parents there as well, actually quite a few single parents who still find the time to get fit. As I mentioned, you don't need to take out a huge chunk of your day. A half hour a day, 3 days a week would be a perfectly reasonable start.

The fact that people say they don't have "enough" time for their own physical well being, on a video game forum no less, is quite sad. There is no such thing as not enough time. If that is your perceived case, then you need to look into making some sacrifices, and no, I don't mean divorcing your wife or quitting your job (given that it is a reasonable job that doesn't demand 90 hour work weeks out of you...which if not, then maybe getting that job wasn't such a great idea and you probably should have kept looking). If it means playing video games a little less, or watching a bit less TV, or being less of a workaholic, then so be it.

If time is really hurting you that much...and I know it is an obstacle, but calling it an impossible obstacle to overcome is self-defeating bullshit...then I recommend visiting CorePerformance's website. Yes, it requires an annual membership fee, which given the amount is dirt cheap given everything they tell you. You can select a workout that they explain to you day by day (with video samples of each workout), and they tell you what kind of foods to buy, meals to prepare. You can select how many days you can workout, and how long of workouts they can be, and they will calculate accordingly.