Have you ever wanted to suffer the indignities of a slimming club in the comfort of your own home? Be virtually nagged into slimming down and shaping up by a computer generated Marjorie Dawes, who will no doubt tell you (with the advice of a proper nutritionist of course) exactly where you went wrong and admonish you for sniffing a bar of chocolate?
Well, now you can! Obviously spurred on by the success of the Nintendo Wii Fit (which is absolutely hilarious, and actually a lot of fun...) Nintendo have now got with the (diet) programme and are bringing out My Weight Loss Coach for Nintendo DS "a game for every adult, male and female, who considers reaching and maintaining their target weight a challenge."
Well, that would be pretty much everybody then?
The programme even says that it "respects your daily life constraints" - does that mean it understands when I get PMS and want to eat Green & Blacks chocolate until it's coming out of my ears? and it very kindly "tracks your progress and achievements by improving your energy balance." - does it actually eat for you then?
I have to say that if it's as accurate as the Wii Fit, which very kindly makes me weigh about two stone less than the evil scales at the gym did a few weeks ago, it will be great - but pretty pointless.
What I want to know is whether the virtual class leader will tell you to eat dust, give you that horrible pseudo-sympathetic look when you gain weight and ask "Is it your *special* week, love?" or try and sell you diet versions of boiled sweets that make you pooh through the eye of a needle if you eat more than three in one sitting....
