Pokémon GO: 11 Insane Player Stories You Won't Believe Actually Happened

Obesity is a huge problem here in the Western world, thanks to a combination of junk food and the fact that, well, we don't really need to get up off our asses to do anything anymore because Internet, and the gym is just an awful place to be.

But after all the head-scratching and committees aimed at motivating people to exercise, it turns out that the solution is simply to send them out in hunt of Pokémon. There have been tons of messages on Twitter from players, talking about how their legs ache after walking for miles in search of the little critters.

One reddit user, Kaysauce, wrote about how he weighs 360lb and walked around 4 miles looking for Pokémon (describing his foot as looking like a "poorly wrapped package of 80/20 hamburger" by the end of the day). Another user responded by saying that his 240lb brother has been going on 5-10km walks because of the game.

Pokémon GO is basically a miracle of the modern age, making obese people walk again (and hopefully, eventually, stop being obese).

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