"My name is Esahn Dulin. I am 16 years old and I live in Sunrise, Florida.

This is about How I lost a large amount of weight playing a video game called DDR. I was never much of an active person when I was younger.

At the age of 6, I would rather play video games and with action figures than outside with friends. I was once on a little league baseball team but I just never took a liking to the sport. Besides being inactive, I ate a lot. I would always take seconds and thirds when it came to dinner and dessert and sometimes a candy bar at night.

Having this lifestyle, you can picture my weight sky-roocketing by the time I was 12. I was taunted a lot by other children when I was at school and it made me depressed so I wanted to get rid of the weight.

I tried little things to lose pounds but I wasn't properly motivated to lose weight until I weighed 256lb. I tried things like proper diet and joining a basketball team but I didn't receive the results I wanted. It wasn't until I went to an arcade that I had a solution to my weight problem.

One day my friends and I passed by the Dance Dance Revolution Extreme machine in the arcade and noticed there was a free credit on it. We never gave the game much notice in the past but since there was a free credit, we wanted to give it a try.

After playing the game, we enjoyed it and continued to play it every week.

After two months, I noticed my weight dropped to 247 and I knew it was because of DDR. I chose to purchase the home version and a dance pad and it really make the game part of my weight loss routine.

After a year, I now weigh around 200 lbs and I owe much thanks of it to DDR.

The reason DDR was so effective was because it's simple to learn but hard to master the game which has you move your body and everyone can enjoy it. I play on level heavy and can play many 9-foot songs.

I still play DDR to slim up but most of the time I play for the fun of it. " [ Last updated: 8/13/04 ]