Collabofit

This guy lost 9 pounds by playing Nintendo Wii Sports. If you want to start tracking your own videogame usage and fitness and weight stats, please send an email to gserafini [at] gmail.com and I’ll hook you up with an invite to Collabofit.

Six weeks ago, I began what has become a huge obsession of mine. It is called the “Wii Sports Experiment” (Read my original announcement of this from Early December ‘06). I outlined a 6 week game plan for myself, the idea being that I would continue ALL normal activity and eating habits, and simply add 30 minutes of Wii Sports to my day. For the past month and a half, I’ve stuck to these guidelines very strictly.
For those of you unfamiliar with “Wii Sports”, you can watch a video review of the game and find out what it’s all about, here
I’ve been meticulously keeping track of the following for the past 6 weeks:
- Weight
- BMI
- Calories burned per session/per game (via BioTrainer, thanks Nancy!)
- Body fat % (via a Digital Body Fat Caliper and a body fat scale)
- Heart Rate (at rest)
- Wii Fitness Age
- Additional Notes/Soreness

Read the rest of his story at .::{WiiNintendo.net}::.

We just pushed a new build and are excited to announce the following new features:

• RSS feeds for all activities
• New activities have been added - Yoga, Steps and… Sledgehammer!
• Target weight goals can now be added, and you’ll see how long you’ve got to lose (or gain) those extra pounds. Or kilograms.
• Team Manager badges. You can now see who the manager of a team is because they’ve got a gold star.
• Link to add a new activity entry from each View Activity page
• Weigh-in history graphics show your target weight

Some of the bugs we fixed in this build:

• A nasty rounding bug where when you put in a number with a decimal that was bigger than .5 it would add 1 to the total.
• Dates are correctly editable again.
• Emails are correctly added to the system on new user sign-up. Existing users will get a message to update their email addresses on their My Account page.
• Lots of layout fixes and improvements

We hope you like the updates. Keep the feedback coming.

Check out what Jeremy Zawodny of Yahoo! fame has done using goal-setting and tracking using spreadsheets — he lost over 50 lbs! Nice!

From his post:

The advice I’ll give isn’t likely to be all that different that what you might read elsewhere, but the combination is what worked well for me. Hopefully it’ll motivate a few more people to do the same. I learned a lot about my habits and behavior in the process and suspect that much of it applies to most people who are struggling with extra pounds.

Diet Tips or How To Lose Weight with a Spreadsheet and a Web Site