My sims are rapidly gaining weight in one day!
So I keep using the cas.fulleditmode cheat to manage the weight gain. Its ever since seasons. Anyone else experiencing this; and what do you do to manage sim weight?
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Although I got Sims 4 back when it launched, I didn't like it back then (esp. with no toddlers) and I just started playing it again about a month and a half ago. Having played both TS2 and TS3 extensively, I applied my past-Sims knowledge of how to manage weight in TS4. The fairly simple rule in TS2 and TS3 was, don't have them eat unless their hunger bar is showing yellow or below. If you wait until they're hungry to eat, they generally won't gain weight in those games.
So, I applied that rule here, and it did not work. My first gen founder packed on the pounds despite literally never eating unless her hunger bar was solidly yellow. Some people claimed that now it is what you eat -- with birthdays and weddings and all and a small family there was often a lot of leftover cake, so I had her eating it a lot. OK, this makes sense.
So I got her exercise equipment and worked her out, and as a cook I had her make more nutritious stuff -- fish, salads, that kind of thing. It took until she hit a Fitness level of 7 or something before this paid off but it finally did. However, despite cooking nutritious meals and her daughter getting to level 10 motor skill (the kid-version of Fitness), her daughter was still pudgy when she aged up to teen. Fortunately the daughter's aspiration rolled Bodybuilder so I just cranked the exercising and she became super-fit.
But every other Sim in the household gets fat despite modest exercise and nutritious food. I never let them eat cake after the birthday (I throw leftover cake out with The Hand). I only make nutritious dishes. And they still get chubby to fat regardless unless I am also exercising them not just a little, but pretty solidly.
I think the game has some more realistic features with the weight gain now (since it seems to be what you eat not just how much). But it's also a little too easy to gain weight and too hard to lose it.
So, I applied that rule here, and it did not work. My first gen founder packed on the pounds despite literally never eating unless her hunger bar was solidly yellow. Some people claimed that now it is what you eat -- with birthdays and weddings and all and a small family there was often a lot of leftover cake, so I had her eating it a lot. OK, this makes sense.
So I got her exercise equipment and worked her out, and as a cook I had her make more nutritious stuff -- fish, salads, that kind of thing. It took until she hit a Fitness level of 7 or something before this paid off but it finally did. However, despite cooking nutritious meals and her daughter getting to level 10 motor skill (the kid-version of Fitness), her daughter was still pudgy when she aged up to teen. Fortunately the daughter's aspiration rolled Bodybuilder so I just cranked the exercising and she became super-fit.
But every other Sim in the household gets fat despite modest exercise and nutritious food. I never let them eat cake after the birthday (I throw leftover cake out with The Hand). I only make nutritious dishes. And they still get chubby to fat regardless unless I am also exercising them not just a little, but pretty solidly.
I think the game has some more realistic features with the weight gain now (since it seems to be what you eat not just how much). But it's also a little too easy to gain weight and too hard to lose it.
