"My name is Louis… I'm 14 years old, and I've been playing DDR for almost 10 months.

When I first heard about DDR via one of my friends in December 2002, I was fat. And I mean FAT fat.

I was 255lbs, to be exact. [At first] I was surprised at how… lacking in skill, and how tired I got from playing light songs.

Well, come March, I was a bit more skillful, and I'd dropped to about 253lbs. I was still routinely getting tired after doing normal songs, so I was frustrated that I wasn't able to get better….

I started playing all the hard songs. My weight started dropping steadily, from 253…to 247…to 240…to 236…. Zoom to July…. By now I've cut my weight to 224, and I don't get tired much anymore….

Well, let's jump to the present now. I now weigh a (comparatively) slender 196. A big difference from the 255 I started off as."[ Last updated: 2/01/04 www.getupmove.com]