Wii gaming machine helps ... lose weight

Overweight gamers tend to like 'kicking' online instead of exercising muscles in the gym that will be very interesting for this news: Playing games with Nintendo's Wii console will make your body slimmer.

After spending the entire six weeks and 21 hours playing with the new Nintendo game console, Mickey DeLorenzo, the Philadelphia man, lost 9 pounds (4kg) and made everyone pay attention to his 'bees' 'full of surprises.

The 25-year-old came up with the idea of ​​reducing the game's balance after joining his fiancée to play boxing of the Wii console to his ears and sweating.

DeLorenzo said: ' I have set up a blog practice regime and always do it very enthusiastically '. Having said that, DeLorenzo was just 181 pounds, which was his weight several years earlier. On December 3, he started testing the idea.

A Nintendo employee is introducing a controller for Nintendo's Wii device in Tokyo on June 7, 2006.Source Reuters .

During the test period, he still ate as usual and did not give up any habits. The only difference is that his daily schedule has an extra 30 minutes of playing sports games like tennis, bowling, boxing and baseball on the Wii.

DeLorenzo has carefully documented every step of his weight loss 'journey' on the WiiNitendo.net website. Not only that, he also 'post' both weight loss graphs and photos that show the 'before' and 'after' stages when 'training'. He also uploaded that footage of Rocky Balboa, the most famous fictional character in the movie 'City of Brotherly Love', holding the Wiimotes.

In addition to his weight loss benefits, DeLorenzo has a lot more fun than expected. He confided: ' Watching photos of before and after practicing, I became more determined to practice. However, in the near future I will gain a few more pounds because I do not want to become so cramped that I do not want to grow anything . ' DeLorenzo also said, he has never been on a diet or exercise before to lose any weight.

A website dedicated to 'keeping waist' has invited DeLorenzo to help them create Wii exercises. He himself has set up the WiiWorkout.net website and linked this website to his blog. DeLorenzo bet that sooner or later, Nintendo brand-name baseball will launch their own sports games.

The number of visitors to DeLorenzo's blog has been increasing and he has been the subject of many blog posts and mass media. However, popularity is not always sweet for DeLorenzo, it also causes him financial losses.

Two days ago, he had to pay extra bills of money to 80 USD, this amount will certainly increase in the near future. DeLorenzo said that he had given some ads to get the money up there and even if it was 'Lord Chub' because of this, he was willing.

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