I lost over 40 pounds (that's good). I lost it in under three months putting me well over the suggested healthy 3lbs per two weeks rate of weight loss (that's bad). Based on my age, height, weight, and gender I'm no longer classified as obese (that's good). I'm now considered over weight (that's bad).



I've had Wii Fit for a while now and realized that I never really wrote a proper review for it so i figured I would. The thing is though is that Wii Fit is in a way really three products in one and unfortunately only two of them are any good.



First of all its a control method which can be used with a growing verity of other Wii games. I'm sure most people will be buying it more for the so called balance board. A name that I hate. Not because its inaccurate. It is after all a board that measures your center of balance. But because the term balance board is already used to refer to something that the controller is definitely not. Anyways if your judging the relatively expensive package by the quality of the controller that comes with it then you will definitely be pleased. I love it. Its not huge but its big enough to feel comfortable standing on. Its not heavy to move or carry around but its got more than enough weight to it to guaranty that it stays in place and wont slide or tip even if you try make it do so. It measures how much weight is being put on each corner accurately and consistently which makes it great for calculating how much total weight is being put on it and what direction its being leaned on. Most importantly its just fun to use. I've been playing Wii Ski a lot and I'm actually really liking it which I doubt I would without the board. Its like Wii Sports. Even an average at best game can be made amazing by its control method which is an impressive accomplishment.



Secondly its a method of measuring and recording weight gain/loss. It does this really well. Since the board works so well the weight it gets for you is consistently accurate. There are a few small things to complain about. For some reason unknown to me it seems to measure and record your wight in two decimal digits but only displays it to one decimal digit. Also weighing yourself is a slightly longer procedure then it probable should be and it would be nice if you could skip the center of balance measurement (which has as much to do with how well you center yourself on the board as how good your posture is) like you can with the fitness age test. Regardless of how much time you give yourself to complete your weight gain/loss goal there is a seemingly random set maximum goal difference of 22lbs. It demands that you select an explenation whenever you gain to much in a day which seems idiotic to me. Its not such a bad idea to let people keep track of why they believe a certain change occurred but it would be better if is was never mandatory and instead you had the option to enter some form of text based note any day on the calender and it merely had those explanations as pre written options to save time from typing. The fact that it uses BMI (body mass index) as its defult and actual weight as a secondary unit of measurement that you need to click a button to see really annoys me. BMI is meaningless. Its just your weight divided by your height. Even dividing your weight by your age or some other completely random number would be as informative as BMI is. The whole concept of measuring weight with what claims to be an exercise game seems a bit odd to me also considering that if your exercising more often then well you will be using up energy and therefor burning away fat your also going to be building muscle mass which would be simultaneously raising your weight as you lose weight and since it provides no way of measuring what percentage of your weight is body fat then the importance and validity of whatever weight change your experiences is called into question. As a whole though it works very well though and having it automatically record everything and create a chart showing the change definitely provides motivation to continue using it every day which you don't really get from just weighing yourself on a regular scale and since your then being reminded every day whether you have gained or lost weight it provides a good motivation to eat healthier foods and healthier portions. The coolest part though is that you can actually install this part onto your Wiis internal memory as a channel so you don't even need to insert the disc to weigh yourself which once again makes it more likely that you will actually bother to continually measure yourself daily.



The third part of the package is the games/exercises. They are definitely the packages weak link. I don't really feel like getting into it right now. Its not complete garbage and it at least gives you something to do before you get any other games using the balance board and helps to justify the cost of it but as a general rule let me just say that that they are not fun and I'm not sure if I would call them exercise either.