Comments on: Vyse’s View: How Video Games Helped Me Lose Weight

By: brandon

brandon — Thu, 01 May 2008 01:05:11 +0000

I have to agree with aika. fix that typo!

By: Reynard

Reynard — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 10:11:08 +0000

Kudos to you Vyse! I’ll even share my story as well…..3 years ago I was working in a kitchen cooking food and I’m 5′7 and was 245lbs. I was miserable but i played a lot of video games, I had a falling out with my best friend at the time, over a girl no less, and went my own direction. I was depressed for 6 months and sleeping on friend’s couch, the only thing I had were my video games, and my two jobs I was working at the time. Over the period I slept on a couch I began to think of a couple things, one – where was the last platinum bolt in Ratchet and Clank : Going Commando, two – damn now I have two friends left, and three – where was my box of Saturn discs? there some shooters and top shelf RPGs. All I did was play games, work, and sleep. Sometimes I owuld go the whole day without eating….But after a year of feeling sorry for myself I realized that I was wasting my time and everyone elses. Next thing I knew people were acting nicer to me and I felt a little better about myself. Call me pansy, but you know what? I have everything going for me right now. Decent job that fits me, a car, a home, and whatever games I play. I’ve reconciled with my friend and we chill a lot now, but after all that I’m 140 lbs and bursting at tthe seams with apathy, I don’t care what happens I’m just chill and happy and so is everyone else, sorry for it being so long

By: Carmen

Carmen — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 03:03:07 +0000

Shooters and fighters helped me adjust my mindset to ‘normal’ life as well… I learned to focus much more from aiming for high scores and 1 credit runs, fighters being able to be persistant and consistant, that I started naturally applying this to studies and other areas of my life with great improvement.

By: finn mckenty

finn mckenty — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 00:22:05 +0000

funny to read this, because i lost about 50 lbs a few years ago and often thought of it as “grinding” too! it’s interesting to see that i’m not the only one who looked at it like that.

congratulations!

By: thaKingRocka

thaKingRocka — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 22:51:25 +0000

that’s great, man. i feel ya. i’m 67 inches above sea level too, and i’m packing on pounds i don’t want and i’m looking at that 160 mark, a mark i remember being 5 pounds under around 3 years ago, as a nigh unattainable goal. whatever your gamerscore is, put an extra 125 points on there for this achievement. i think i’m gonna steal your strategies.

oh btw, do heed what Aika said. the word is pretty important to the post.

By: Aika

Aika — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:56:14 +0000

LOSING weight by playing video games is a wonderful thing, but if you’ve got LOOSE weight I’d play a little more.

By: Spencer

Spencer — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:27:58 +0000

Congrats Vyse! This an awesome achievement and an interesting way to look at the problem through grinding.

By: Tatsu

Tatsu — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:02:05 +0000

A Bacon approaches!

>>Fight >>Eat >>Run