Man stages Wii Fit experiment to lose weight, gain fame

Engadget writes:

About a year ago, one morbidly obese (er, a tiny bit chubby) man began a quest to find out what happens when you stop being polite and try to exercise via Wii Sports (see above). Apparently after losing 9 pounds, dropping two points from his BMI, and 3-inches from his waist, he's ready to go again, this time with the Wii Fit.

[Chubear]

.. WHAT?!

I think the site's acting weird again cause I'm sure you all meant to post in the CNN GTA4 arena.

[Bubble and Squeek]

Perhaps they are just a bit, er, "trigger happy" with the [Add Reply] button.

[RecSpec]

I can see where this is going.

Day 1: "I broke the Wii Fit controller (sigh)"

[deeznuts]

Super Wii Mii

[Max Power]

of course your going to lose weight if you go from doing nothing to anything, and for real that dude is the fat, tubby, nor obese.

[ArtisianDragon]

That this will become just like the subway fad, people will buy the wii fit and play it continuously in the hopes to lose those 10 pounds or more.

/sigh

[Relientk77]

this is pretty much the dumbest thing i think i have ever heard

if u can be famous from losing a couple pounds .. wow no one cares ..

[jinn]

just stick to nutrisystem

[MrBii]

Or do anything for your condition.

Merely swinging your wiimote is not exercise. If thats exercising, everytime I reach out and grab a bottle of beer, is exercising.

Sorry, but youre being fooled.

And losing muscle is not my idea of "losing weight".

PS you can do push ups with wiifit. Yes, I know. Or you can chose to do push ups without wiifit. Seriously.