Playing The Weight Loss Game

Video games of the past were all about standing at the game machine and moving side to side and up and down as you tried to find the perfect balance that would let you bump the side f the game just hard enough to get the silver ball where you wanted it, but not have the machine flash "TILT!"

Even when the video games came along, players would still stand at the machine and move side to side in an effort to use their body language to manipulate the little images on the screen as they rocked the joystick side to side and tapped the buttons to perform a variety of actions in the game world.

Then along came Pong  on the Atari system and gamers became TV viewing couch potatoes.

The new generations of video games have brought back the interactive 'get up and move' quality that the old arcade games had to them, and taken it up a notch back to the days of pinball. Once again you really can change things in the game world by a well timed hip-bump. It is a major victory for every old time gamer like myself that moved away from the world of gaming to escape the evils of couch potato weight gain.

Not all games are interactive, but the ones that are made to get us up off the sofa and on the move are at least a nice justification for us to go ahead and buy that fancy game system we want and a few of the couch potato types of games. We just need to be sure that we try to moderate just how much time is spent vegetating out on the sofa compared to getting up and moving.