Anyone got any personal weight loss stories?

[Adamer]

I'm considering the financial investment into VR almost exclusively to play Beat Saber and I would like to hear people's stories of getting healthier and losing weight with the game.

I'm a fat ♥♥♥♥ and I need to do something about it, so I would appreciate any insights people have.

[Mazais Ezis]

Eat healthy and excersise. Playing games and eating junk will not help to lose any weight. It is just excuse to buy VR stuff. Get serious and motivated.

[Cannoli: 76]

Honestly, if you're going to make this investment, get more than just beat saber. Although beat saber is a lot of fun, and will do a lot of hours, it will get boring to play on a constant level like that. Other games, such as Blade & sorcery, are equally as fun in different ways, and require similar physical activity.

TL:DR Buy more than just beat saber if VR is what you wanna do.

[Ships and Salsa]

I went from 215 to 195 ib with Beat Saber. It was some with eating less too but love of this game motivated me to make the changes.

[Brian David Phillips]

Beat Saber can help but diet is a big factor as you step into it. Also check Box VR. Find games that are Room Scale that force you to move. Sword Master VR, check it out and play it. Work up to Legendary.

[Prince Vegeta]

Originally posted by Платный:

Eat healthy and excersise. Playing games and eating junk will not help to lose any weight. It is just excuse to buy VR stuff. Get serious and motivated.

100% not true I lost over 20 pounds in my first month of VR alone. I have not changed my diet at all.

Playing this plus any boxing game will lose weight, no doubt about it. I recommend Thrill of the Fight. It's solid and cheap.

There is also Creed but that's a tradeoff, the visuals are better but the game has some serious bugs here and there.

Edit -> A look at the posts following this one clearly shows how far reading comprehension has fallen.

[Lazarus {FATE}]

Originally posted by Ships and Salsa:

I went from 215 to 195 ib with Beat Saber. It was some with eating less too but love of this game motivated me to make the changes.

Went from 262 to 197 lbs in 9 months. Lost fat and built muscle at the same time.

Thrill of the Fight,Box VR and Beat Saber along with some stationary bike and weights.

Make sure you have a caloric deficit, enough protein,carbs and good fats (yes carbs and fat can still be eaten when properly incorporated into healthy eating).

While some may lose weight by simply playing vr with no life changes it depends on age, life stule and your current health. You won't get the best benefits by half-assing it. You cannot out train a bad diet.
1 bad mc Donald's meal is over 1000 calories. Takes many hours of excercise to burn off 1 bad meal let alone a weeks worth.

The mileage you will get on this game may differ but right now I'm playing mostly expert (not that great yet), to be able to finish the songs, and it's not enough to get my HR into Fat burning levels unless I play the other games I mentioned.


Every other day:
I use 20 min beat saber for a warm up, 20 min box vr, 20 min Thrill of The Fight. I use 16 oz wrist weights and most of a 40 lbs weight vest every second vr day.

In between I do weights and or cardio.

[Prince Vegeta]

Arthritis is coming for you Picollo. Otherwise good tips. ^_^

[zion]

While I'm only few weeks in beat saber and haven't weighted my self, one positive thing I've noticed is that overall I have more energy during the day if I compare it to like 1 month before (when not playing beat saber).

Originally posted by Heerz Johnny:

I use 16 oz wrist weights and most of a 40 lbs weight vest.

Weights are highly nor recommended in beat saber unless you do is play normal.

[Lazarus {FATE}]

Originally posted by zion:

While I'm only few weeks in beat saber and haven't weighted my self, one positive thing I've noticed is that overall I have more energy during the day if I compare it to like 1 month before (when not playing beat saber).

Originally posted by Heerz Johnny:

I use 16 oz wrist weights and most of a 40 lbs weight vest.

Weights are highly nor recommended in beat saber unless you do is play normal.

16 oz wrist weight gloves are no heavier than the boxing gloves I use on a heavy bag IRL. You do have to be careful of over extension since you are swinging at air.

Also: it's not something a newer player should be doing since you can screw up your arms if you don't know what you are doing.You actually need the physical strength to keep from hurting yourself even with low weight.

Weights are not recommended in any VR game "if" you aren't, in shape or it containes unnatural movements, which is why I only use them every second day, not to mention that when you are not moving extra weight you move quite a bit faster in game.

[AusSkiller]

I lost 5kg in two weeks playing 30-60min per day, my weight has been pretty steady for the last few weeks, but I strongly suspect that I'm just losing fat at the same rate I'm putting on muscle. The same thing happened when I lost 20kg playing Wii fit, lost 5kg in the first two weeks then nothing the next month before getting into a steady 0.75-1kg per week rate of loss.
I'm pretty lucky though my weight stabilises at only 30kg above ideal despite my poor diet and sedentary lifestyle, so any actual exercise will start burning off the fat pretty easily with no other lifestyle changes, but I have no doubt improved diet would certainly help speed things up and result in better overall health... unfortunately my body refuses to keep down anything that tastes bad which is basically anything even remotely healthy ;)

[Prince Vegeta]

All it took was one quick google to learn that i'll never put weights on my body in VR. The inevitable damage just isn't worth the short term gain.

[Rutabaga]

Originally posted by adam:

I'm considering the financial investment into VR almost exclusively to play Beat Saber and I would like to hear people's stories of getting healthier and losing weight with the game.

I'm a fat ♥♥♥♥ and I need to do something about it, so I would appreciate any insights people have.

Reality; your weight is determined by what you eat, playing beatsaber isn't gonna lose you the weight. Might have other health benefits, but your body fat is 99% diet. Replace the garbage food that made you fat to begin with, and the weight will come off with or without Beat Saber. I lost 22 kg (48 lbs) sitting on my ass playing video games, but fixing my diet.

Again, there are plenty of other health benefits to moving and exercising, but just know that playing some beat saber won't magically make you slim. Lifestyle change is tough, but well worth it when you actually manage to do it correctly.

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Originally posted by Rutabaga:

playing beatsaber isn't gonna lose you the weight. Might have other health benefits, but your body fat is 99% diet.... I lost 22 kg (48 lbs) sitting on my ass playing video games, but fixing my diet.

Again, there are plenty of other health benefits to moving and exercising, but just know that playing some beat saber won't magically make you slim.

Several points here:

1) Any physical activity that causes calorie burn will cause fat burn and therefore weight loss. There is no reason at all to suggest that playing Beat Saber will have ZERO affect on weight loss. If it's causing your heart rate to increase, breaking you into a sweat, increasing your breathing rate, encouraging thirst, then I can absolutely assure you, it IS causing fat burn and consequent weight loss.

2) You're body fat is not 99% diet - absolute nonsense! Fisherman eat very high calorific content foods due to the intense physical nature of their job and they do not put on any weight during their work. People put on weight for two reasons: a) Eating more calories than their body requires and b) Not doing enough physical exercise.

3) Proposing that sitting on your ass playing video games is of more benefit to weight loss than physically standing up and being active in a VR game is simply ridiculous.

[Rutabaga]

1) Long term studies show that diet + exercise increases weightloss by about 1 lbs per year, as contrasted by just diet. Feel free to disagree, but i think most experts in the field knows that this is generally true. Again, not saying that exercise is bad or pointless, i'm just saying that it's not the main driver of weightloss.

2) Of course, how much you burn is relevant. The point is that if you work out hard, you need to eat more to recover. Exercise is great, but again, mostly for other health and mental reason. The more you work out the more you need to eat, and in the end you'll end up maintaining the same kind of caloric deficit. Every gym enthusiast and body builder and his grandmother knows this. There's a limit to how much you can restrict your calories before you get negative side effects and hunger becomes too much. So if you aim for a 20% caloric deficit, it'll produce the same results whether you play Beat Saber or not. All the calories you burn during activity, you'll still just eat back again, to make sure you don't make your caloric deficit too high. So we are left with the health benefits of cardio, and no significant weight loss. So i suppose you could either cut 20% off of your BMR, and eat that. Or you could eat your full daily BMR and then exercise to reduce those 20%, but the result is still the same.

3) That's not what i said. My point was that having a garbage lifestyle and hucking a little bit of light cardio on top won't really do much for your weight. You need to embrace lifestyle change to achieve real results. Exercise in any form, including beat saber, can absolutely be a part of that, but in isolation it will not be enough.

[Mazais Ezis]

Weight loss 1 lbs per week is EASY if you have a plan. Get a professional help = training and diet plan. Dont take seriously any forum discussion BS fake experts.