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As an educational tool, the Wii Fit works for a time, showing you new exercises, yoga postures, and other fitness techniques to help you along the way. Instead of seeing a dejected BB walk off the screen, I wanted Solid Snake to make a cameo and put two bullets into its anthropomorphized plastic brainpan. I mean, when the balance board character asked if I wanted a fitness tip, I was looking for the “Fuck Off” button instead of Yes or No. As time went on, it became abysmally boring. Second, I really got sick of frakking Wii Fit.Īs I mentioned in one of my articles, over time, I found the game boring. If there is suffering involved, I want compensation, and as it went on, there was more suffering for less compensation… kinda like my job. It sucked to watch my family enjoy the foods they love, while I looked on, eating my salad. I can binge but can’t quite get that purge thing down). I expected this, because quite frankly, if I continued to lose weight at the rate I did in the beginning, there would be health consequences, plus I really didn’t want to explain to people that I didn’t have an eating disorder (I’m a failed bulimic, by the way. But as the experiment went on, boredom reared its ugly head.įirst, my accomplishments started diminishing. Every time I felt I had accomplished something, it was simple to jump on the computer and write, and even when I struggled, I could still express my feelings about it to my readers without issue. In the first few weeks, taking the weight off as well as the writing was both easy and fun. In the beginning, the workouts were tough, the eating was harder, but the motivation was there to keep me on the balance board.

But win or lose, I promised accountability, and I am here to deliver on that promise. It would be a daunting task for anyone, and certainly would be tough for a fast food eating, sedentary working, couch potato like myself.

The plan was to embark on an experiment to see if a videogame, Wii Fit, could make me lose 100 pounds in one year. It was just over one year ago that I introduced myself to the DoG audience as Jason Helton, a self-proclaimed fat ass.