6'4" 260ish lbs.
I used to weigh 185 lbs., I was pretty scrawny. I got a new job at work and I don't do much physical labor anymore. I eat whatever I want and don't exercise... Oh well.
I'm a recovering anorexic. Because like alcoholism it doesn't go away. Ever.
I started gaming at 95 lbs, at my skinniest. Started having physical problems from being too skinny. Gained 60 lbs, got up to 155. Felt really good. Looked really good. Went to college. Gained 25 lbs, got up to 180. Felt fat. Started self-hating again. Talked to a doctor, got a minimum weight set (I'm not allowed to go below 140 lbs). Stopped self-hating. Gained 10 lbs, got up to 190. Felt fat. Refused to diet. Made myself miserable. Three years passed.
Changed my diet. Added many more fatty things to my diet, removed many overly processed things. Lost 25 lbs, am now at 165. Look really good. Feel fat. Hate myself again.
Anorexia never goes away. The people around you only pretend it does.
I'm in pretty good shape, tho.
The people I game with are both skinny nerds. One is clinically underweight but not from lack of eating.
No; not at all; was just looking at my friends on facebook and how out of good health; if you dont like the word shape; that many are and how there were new years resolutions about getting more healthy and how that lasts usually about 3 weeks and why do people keep failing when it is so easy gain weight; loose weigh or maintain weight if you have a good system that is proven to work. Is a mystery to me.
What brought on this bit of "wondering?" It wasn't, by any chance, the latest Paizo blog, which included the remark...
With the advent of a new calendar year, we here on the Pathfinder Society Organized Play creative team have, like so many others during this season, made a New Year's resolution. No, it's not that we'll eat less junk food, nor is it that we'll exercise more (we are gamers, after all).Was it?
thank you so much all of you for the great responses; and grats to those doing well and the newborns and will pray for you who have been sick and recovering from various illness and such. I really want our community to be awesome and strong and healthy.
am just wondering; lot of people have new years resolutions to lose weight and I guess so many fail; hurts self esteem; and gamers are usually either super skinny or excessively overweight; so I am wondering how this is going for everyone as I like our gamer community and want us all to be around for a long long time; and with all the health issues like diabetes and heart disease and back pain and so on; I was wondering how everyone is doing; made any resolutions; that sort of thing.
me; am working hard to improve my circulation; seems like my leg or arm or such is always falling asleep and ahem; correct my manly issues; that is my goal; wouldnt mind loosing maybe 8 lbs; so I have been working on it and things are getting better.
I'm the guy down on one knee in black.
Right now the wife and I are trying to do the Insanity workout as part of our new years resolution to get back in shape. We're doing it 5 days a week.
I used to go clubbing and dance quite a bit before I got married and my son was born so I used to be in pretty good shape. 45 min of Insanity has shown me just how NOT in shape I am right now.
EDIT: I'm 6' and 194 lbs. I fluctuate between 190 - 196. My goal is to get down to at least 185 lbs by spring.
I'm the guy down on one knee in black.
Oh man, that picture is not at all what I thought it was going to be before I clicked.
I was totally expecting a proposal photo. ;)
I'm a recovering anorexic. Because like alcoholism it doesn't go away. Ever.
With you on that. It's been seven years (eight now, I guess) since the worst of mine, and I still keep a daily calorie journal and wrestle with feelings of fatness. At this point I can channel the obsessiveness into more-or-less healthy directions, but the obsessiveness itself never really goes away. The best you can do is control and redirect. But yeah, it's lifelong.
Best wishes on your continuing recovery.
I'm the guy down on one knee in black.Oh man, that picture is not at all what I thought it was going to be before I clicked.
I was totally expecting a proposal photo. ;)
HA! Looking at what I wrote I can see how you could have thought that.
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I'm the guy down on one knee in black.Oh man, that picture is not at all what I thought it was going to be before I clicked.
I was totally expecting a proposal photo. ;)
I'm a recovering anorexic. Because like alcoholism it doesn't go away. Ever.With you on that. It's been seven years (eight now, I guess) since the worst of mine, and I still keep a daily calorie journal and wrestle with feelings of fatness. At this point I can channel the obsessiveness into more-or-less healthy directions, but the obsessiveness itself never really goes away. The best you can do is control and redirect. But yeah, it's lifelong.
Best wishes on your continuing recovery.
You both have my prayers. At least that's one ailment I've not had to deal with.
Ms. Merciel, I ask that you channel that obsession into Pathfinder fiction, particulary in Taldor. :-)
I'm the guy down on one knee in black.Oh man, that picture is not at all what I thought it was going to be before I clicked.
I was totally expecting a proposal photo. ;)
I'm a recovering anorexic. Because like alcoholism it doesn't go away. Ever.With you on that. It's been seven years (eight now, I guess) since the worst of mine, and I still keep a daily calorie journal and wrestle with feelings of fatness. At this point I can channel the obsessiveness into more-or-less healthy directions, but the obsessiveness itself never really goes away. The best you can do is control and redirect. But yeah, it's lifelong.
Best wishes on your continuing recovery.
Someone I love very much and miss terribly is anorexic even at the age of near-50. It never goes away, which is quite unfortunate. She struggles against it every day.
Ms. Merciel, I ask that you channel that obsession into Pathfinder fiction, particulary in Taldor. :-)
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Well, you might get about half that request. Yesterday I was tinkering around with something that I may or may not send over to Monsieur Sutter in the near future (assuming the Spousal Unit gives me the green light and confirms it's not completely dog doody). Buuuut no Taldor. At least not for now.
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Ms. Merciel, I ask that you channel that obsession into Pathfinder fiction, particulary in Taldor. :-)[threadjack]
Well, you might get about half that request. Yesterday I was tinkering around with something that I may or may not send over to Monsieur Sutter in the near future (assuming the Spousal Unit gives me the green light and confirms it's not completely dog doody). Buuuut no Taldor. At least not for now.
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Whoo hoo! I need to read some more on the Byzantines. That's what Taldor reminds me of, but their Catholic Church (Aroden) was destroyed, so it gets different.
am just wondering; lot of people have new years resolutions to lose weight and I guess so many fail; hurts self esteem; and gamers are usually either super skinny or excessively overweight; so I am wondering how this is going for everyone as I like our gamer community and want us all to be around for a long long time; and with all the health issues like diabetes and heart disease and back pain and so on; I was wondering how everyone is doing; made any resolutions; that sort of thing.
me; am working hard to improve my circulation; seems like my leg or arm or such is always falling asleep and ahem; correct my manly issues; that is my goal; wouldnt mind loosing maybe 8 lbs; so I have been working on it and things are getting better.
Honestly I am a very inteligent gamer. I am not overweight and I can support myself.
Read this thread, forgot about it, then joined a Kenpo Karate class two days later. Coincidence? I think not.
Kenpo, huh? Intriguing. I look forward to our epic battle.
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While I am overweight, I am not out of shape.
My weight comes from the fact that I love food. My mother was a caterer, when I was a child. As such, I have a fondness for good-tasting foods. Plus I am an endomorph.
However, despite my weight, I can stand for hours on end and exert myself physically for lengthy periods of time.
In my own experience, I have known many gamers over the two decades I have been playing RPGs. We come in all shapes and sizes. My buddy John and my little brother Jarom are thin and lanky. My friend Jason is built like a fashion model. And just look at Veronic Fay! Gaming has nothing to do with weight. It is all about genetics and people's personal habits.
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Read this thread, forgot about it, then joined a Kenpo Karate class two days later. Coincidence? I think not.
Me too! This is my second week! Although I think I saw this thread after I started.
To contribute to the thread, my shape is best described as fence post or string bean. I am not in any great physical shape, having pretty much lost what muscle I built up playing softball in high school. Hopefully the Kenpo will fix that.
When I got into gaming, I was in the Army, and 180lbs of pure muscle at 5'10".
Now that I'm out of the service, 8 years later, I'm still 180lbs of muscle.
With a hundred extra pounds of gut. Maybe ninety gut and ten cheek. I'm still really strong, but I get winded if I have to climb three flights of stairs. I want to drop at least 70 lbs or convert it into muscle. It's really weird though, because my stomach is still rock hard, it is just pregnant shaped. Bottom line is I have no business being as heavy as Brock Lesner unless I look like he does.