Wii Fit Review - Is it worth it - will you actually lose weight and get fitter?

I bought WIi Fit a few months ago, and i love it. Infact the only person who likes it more than me is my girlfriend.

But liking it is one thing, losing weight on it is another. And have i lost any weight using it? Yes! But not so much from the exercise routines it has, but more from the encouragement, the daily weigh ins and the targets it sets for me. Now arguably you don’t need to spend so much on an exercise plan and fancy scales, but i am glad i did.

For the first 1-2 months i had it i set up a goal of 12 pounds to lose, so not too much. I started to use it daily for exercises and toning routines as well as weighing my self each morning. Fantastic i thought. And it was, and i quickly started to become aware of every bit of exercise i did off the board, and every bit of food i was eating. I wanted to make sure i pleased the game and didn’t put on any weight. Infact, if you do you get told off and have to tell it why you have put on weight!

In those initial months i lost almost a stone and was very pleased. But the truth is, by that time i had become bored with the same old games and routines, and from then on only used it as a weigh in, a target setting device and a form of encouragement. If a Wii Fit 2 game was released, or download content added, i would start getting back on it for exercise reasons, but as it is i dont think i will.

So is it worth it? Yes, definitely, but you will probably get bored with it after a while - and really like any diet or exercise - you need to stick with it.  Considering when i join a gym that only lasts for about 3 weeks for me, Wii Fit did very well.

Another good idea is to join a community site, such as www.wiifitspace.com where you can keep a blog and share your results and regimes with other people. This may help you get more life out of it.

I definitely recommend giving it ago if you have been thinking about it at all, even though it is expensive, especially if you have to buy the Nintendo Wii as well.