Sinshroud
New member
Hey guys and girls, I'm a former life-long gamer turned health and fitness enthusiast.
I know from past experience that due to the nature and preference of most gamers, being regularly active and living healthily is hard. It can be even harder to maintain some kind of balance as time goes on, especially if you don't have the right kind of support and encouragement from those around you.
There is also a funny grey area if you are an avid gamer as well as someone trying to be healthy. You often get discouragement and contempt from fellow gamers who do not care about being healthy, and you are afraid to talk about one of your favourite past times with the guys you meet at the gym.
Jim Rohn said: "You are the average of the 5 people you spend the most time with". Meaning if most of your friends and family are unhealthy, then there is a VERY good chance you will be too as everything you do together reinforces that unhealthy is normal. But the awesome thing is that one of the easiest ways to change your habits is simply to spend more time hanging out with (or talking to online) other people who are trying to be healthy.
Over the past 5 years that I've made a change, I've gone from being ugly, fat, shy, unconfident, foreveralone, and living such a small introverted life to being attractive, athletic, confident, dateable, and living a much bigger life than I could ever have imagined.
I've done (and do) things that if you had told me I would be doing them 5 years ago I would have laughed. I consistently go to gym 4-5 days a week and love it, I do not crave sugar or junk food - and when I do eat it I'm completely guilt free and in control, I've had 5 different dates in 1 week, I've trekked through the Himalayas to Mt. Everest Base Camp, I love socialising and talking to people now, I do things like the Warrior Races and Impi Challenges, and most importantly I do not fear new or unfamiliar things anymore.
I'm passionate about helping people become healthier, especially people that I can relate to. I'm not a personal trainer or nutritionist, I won't prescribe any highly specific advice and I won't try to tell you any product or service.
What I want to do is just get people talking to me (and others) about things like what your concerns are about your way of life right now, what would you like to change, what are you already doing right, what have you tried in the past, and so on.
I know from past experience that due to the nature and preference of most gamers, being regularly active and living healthily is hard. It can be even harder to maintain some kind of balance as time goes on, especially if you don't have the right kind of support and encouragement from those around you.
There is also a funny grey area if you are an avid gamer as well as someone trying to be healthy. You often get discouragement and contempt from fellow gamers who do not care about being healthy, and you are afraid to talk about one of your favourite past times with the guys you meet at the gym.
Jim Rohn said: "You are the average of the 5 people you spend the most time with". Meaning if most of your friends and family are unhealthy, then there is a VERY good chance you will be too as everything you do together reinforces that unhealthy is normal. But the awesome thing is that one of the easiest ways to change your habits is simply to spend more time hanging out with (or talking to online) other people who are trying to be healthy.
Over the past 5 years that I've made a change, I've gone from being ugly, fat, shy, unconfident, foreveralone, and living such a small introverted life to being attractive, athletic, confident, dateable, and living a much bigger life than I could ever have imagined.
I've done (and do) things that if you had told me I would be doing them 5 years ago I would have laughed. I consistently go to gym 4-5 days a week and love it, I do not crave sugar or junk food - and when I do eat it I'm completely guilt free and in control, I've had 5 different dates in 1 week, I've trekked through the Himalayas to Mt. Everest Base Camp, I love socialising and talking to people now, I do things like the Warrior Races and Impi Challenges, and most importantly I do not fear new or unfamiliar things anymore.
I'm passionate about helping people become healthier, especially people that I can relate to. I'm not a personal trainer or nutritionist, I won't prescribe any highly specific advice and I won't try to tell you any product or service.
What I want to do is just get people talking to me (and others) about things like what your concerns are about your way of life right now, what would you like to change, what are you already doing right, what have you tried in the past, and so on.
I'm so glad that me exercising hasn't turned me into a socialising, talkative person. Whew. It sounds horrible.
), so while I'm thin, I don't have much in the way of definition XD. Which is something I'd like to change, but with work and family and friends and life I just feel like it'd be another 'job' added to my day, cutting away even more free time to do things I actually want to do. So it's somewhat of a goal I hope to complete at some point before I'm old and grey, but as I already feel like I have the SO I'm probably going to spend the rest of my life with, and neither of our appearances having deteriorated in the 8 years we've been together, finding the motivation to work out is really, really hard. I know, cry me a river right? 
