How Much Weight Have You Lost Doing DDR?

[Blacksgiving]

Originally Posted by Karnov

you have got to be kidding...
3 months!?

You'd be surprised how much weight you lose when you become a meth addicted, borderline-anorexic that wont touch a difficulty below 9.

[The Chemist]

Now thats just saddening

50+ over here. I owe DDR a lot of gratitude.

[recessionatalus]

Originally Posted by Slackbot

When I started DDR, I was 5'5 and weighed 118 pounds. (I'm a woman.) In about 4 months I shrank down to 101.5 pounds, which alarmed my friends and coworkers. They started asking me carefully-worded questions about anorexia and bullemia. Since then I've been slowly gaining weight, and am now at 112, but now I have some muscle definition.

hey slackbot

it's kind of irritating when people automatically assume that if you are very thin it must be an eating disorder; when i was in high school at one point I was 5'8" 120 and i got a lot of the same questions, haha

Originally Posted by Kiri_No_Haku

Does DDR make your calves (is that what you call them?) huge from the leg muscle? Mine look a little big but I don't know if that is just the fat still thinning down but the muscle is building up.

I don't want to have huge shins. T_T

generally, yeah; your calves will get larger. depending on your play style they may get significantly larger

[Kiri_No_Haku]

I just did $4 worth at the arcade today but got tired out. T_T 12 songs is good enough I guess. I like playing more of RevenG/Re-venge/Revenge type songs. Didn't know there were so many 2MB songs, but no fascination.

[Tamorak]

Originally Posted by ΩOMEGAΩ

I also forgot to mention, whenever I take a trip to a DDR arcade, I dont eat anything the whole day. I get there early usually, or in the early afternoon, and then at night I leave go home, and go to sleep. Sort of like today, except I ate spaghetti O's, because thats all I felt like cooking.

I don't think this is a great idea. You should eat something before any type of physical work out. If I didn't eat an hour or two before a wrestling match, it showed endurance wise. Sure you might lose weight faster with this approach, but I can promise you it's not to great for your body.

Do what I do sometimes, I stop at subway and grab a foot long sub (they are only $5 here still) eat that before you go play for longer periods of time (I usually go for 3+ hours with a few breaks inbetween to regain stamina) and you are good to go for the day.

I lost 30 pounds in a year, gained 12 of it back probably mostly as muscle. My legs are a lot bigger now than before. My time for running a mile has gone down amazingly, I went from doing one in roughly 7 minutes to just under 6.

[GameFreak19911991]

DDR didn't too too much really, But I've only been playing for a year and a half. I'd say eating once or twice a day did more than anything. I started around 270, I'm ~220 now.

[revenGmyass]

Originally Posted by Kiri_No_Haku

Does DDR make your calves (is that what you call them?) huge from the leg muscle? Mine look a little big but I don't know if that is just the fat still thinning down but the muscle is building up.

I don't want to have huge shins. T_T

Huh... So I'm not alone with this. At first I was worried that something was wrong with them but now... I feel kinda bit relieved.

[katgirlfeli]

None. Playing DDR has only increased my muscle mass also since i never stopped eating or dieting or w/e, I couldn't really lose weight. I still say i'm a lot heathier than i would've been without DDR, that's for sure, as I probably wouldn't done any excersize otherwise.

[Fantine]

I got Hottest Party for Christmas, and I was about 198 (I'm 5'9). I've been playing it every day since then, and have lost 30 lbs so far. I'm doing it gradually.

[BemaniAK]

So far, like 2 Kilos...

[Swors-k]

I've lost a collective 75 lbs from DDR: started at 230, dropped to 190, stopped playing and gained back to 220, started again and dropped to 200, stopped again and gained to 250, started up again recently and dropped back to 235, and I'm currently in my best playind shape of all time, oddly enough.

[Kiri_No_Haku]

The only problem is taht I'm probably gaining too much muscle mass in my calves but I think they won't bother me that much. Besides that, I've lost 25lbs with dieting and DDR.