EDIT: damnit, I can not correctly make a thread title if my life was on the line. ("5" is supposed to say "18") I'm sorry guys, but I think I might just be dislexic or whatever.

Roll over, Wii Fit: there's a new get-fit game in town, and it doesn’t even need a console. Seventeen-year-old Georgia resident Taylor LeBaron lost 150 pounds in just 18 months after he devised a weight-loss strategy using lessons he learned from playing difficult video games.

Taylor LeBaron before and after.

LeBaron was interviewed on the Today show, where he told host Meredith Vieira his staggering story. Having tipped the scales at 297 pounds at the age 14, LeBaron decided to approach his weight issue as though it were a game.

In his system, there are allies, enemies and money. The basic idea is to work with allies (exercise, healthy foods), avoid enemies (junk food) and make money (burned calories equal cash). If, at the end of a day, the player has burned more calories than he or she has consumed, that's a victory.

Now 150 pounds lighter, Taylor LeBaron's victory was pretty substantial, leading to both a website and even a book about the "Video Game Diet."

The underlying premise at work here is hardly new -- a quick Yahoo! search for 'Budget Calories' yields a modest 13.4 million results -- and neither is the notion of turning fitness into a game. But if a prime argument in favor of fitness games such as Wii Fit and Your Shape is that they're cheaper than a gym membership, then Taylor LeBaron's 'Ultimate Fitness Game' wins the debate. At most, it's the cost of a book; at least, it's free. Now that's a game worth trying.

http://videogames.yahoo.com/events/plugged-in/teen-turns-diet-into-game-loses-150-pounds/1385415

Oprah would be proud.

That is pretty amazing. Congrats to him. I thought he would be way more buffed out but hey, results are results.

Apparently losing all the weight improved his sense of fashion. Seriously, what's with the hat in the first pic?

Congrats to him though, that's very impressive

wow, pretty good

I don't mean to be rude he looked adorable before. Look at that hat. It's golden!

He kind of looks like an asshole now. I wouldn't talk to him.

in his shot he looked like i look now

fat and friendly

in the second pic, he looks like a jerk.

Yeah I know, his hat is like a milkshake that brings all the boys to the yard

oi, stop being mean just cos he's skinny now! that's sizeist!

he looks more confident in the 2nd pic, and as long as he's happy then im happy for this random stranger too ^__^

he kinda looks foolish in both the pics

and a wannabe person in the second pic

And the big boss is virginity ! lol

PS. i don't understand all the hate. He doesn't look friendlier on the first pic than he does on the second...