Teens can participate in a variety of fun activities in order to lose weight. Overweight teens are increasingly more common today. They need enjoyable ways of losing excess weight. Unique ways to lose weight will have more appeal to teenagers. Unusual methods may encourage them to want to lose, rather than feeling like they have to or that someone is forcing them to lose weight. Once they enjoy doing it, they have an increased likelihood of continuing and being successful at losing weight.

But how can you make losing weight more fun? Well, exciting activities that appeal to teenagers will help. One teenage girl lost weight by playing a video game. 
Now, what can be more exciting and fun than that? How did she do that? This story is worth listening to.

This typical teenage girl used her time at the arcade to lose weight. She started playing a popular video game called "Dance Dance Revolution (DDR)" at the age of 17. She was a senior in high school and weighed about 235 lbs. After four and a half years of playing this video game, she weighed about 140 lbs.

She never imagined how much a video game would affect her health and weight producing positive results. This video game also helped her become a more self-confident teen. Before she discovered this video game, she was inactive. She wasn’t used to dancing regularly.

She was an active member in a band, an orchestra, and drama. She had played other video games. She didn't exercise regularly. Her unhealthy weight made her unhappy. Like most obese people, she started losing hope of weighing her proper weight. Losing so much weight overwhelmed her. She used the internet as an escape. People on the internet didn’t know she was overweight.

When she went to college the new environment made her increasingly uncomfortable and unhappy. Her weight started to yo-yo hovering around 235 lbs. In October of 2002, a new version of DDR USA was released. It contained a ton of new songs to dance to. She tried the game out. She soon became addicted to the new video game. Her activity increased. She began frequenting the video arcade almost every day. She played the video game for hours and hours.

She discovered a website, which had a Bulletin Board where gamers met online and talked about DDR and other music games. She quickly became friends with the regulars. She found friends that motivated her to play more frequently. It was during this time she began losing weight.

She lost 45 lbs in the first six months with no change in her diet whatsoever. This achievement encouraged her to follow a more healthy diet. She became more conscious of what she ate, which helped her lose an additional 20 lbs.

Playing the game regularly coupled with a healthy diet has caused her to maintain a healthy weight, which she didn’t think was possible. She enjoyed playing an active video game. It changed her life.