Gamer Girls Need Exercise Too :O

It's cool that girls want to be strong and full of confidence like many of the characters they play in games!

I played games ever since I was a little kid. Although I played WoW, I found it was SO boring that I quit - was just too simple for my tastes (not enough classes, races, no realm vs realm combat, etc). I played Rift and loved it but I still have not found an MMORPG as great as Dark Age of Camelot.

Lately I just play games - mostly RPGs - on the DS and a few older PC games such as Alice Neo (a Japanese strategy RPG).

Hey, another gamer girl here Mainly mmos for me, though I never got into a WoW a whole lot. Did have an Undead mage, but only got to around level 25 I think. I've played lotro since beta. I saw someone say they play on Landroval - me too! LMB is awesome! Though I haven't been playing lotro as much lately, as I've been investing most of my gaming time in TOR, Ebon Hawk server. I definitely use my gaming as motivation for workouts. I want to be as fit and awesome as my Imperial Agent is Add me if you like, can always use more gamer friends!!

Are you in LMB? I'm Carliee, Rosiee, Aurillian and Haarli :-)

Fellow gamer and call center worker here also. League of Legends is what I play most, I'd say (Zed is a monster jungle!!). I just got Blops 2 and have been playing that too. If exercise is your concern, you have to commit to going to the gym at least 3 times since you have a sedentary job and your primary hobby is also sedentary. Trust me, I know. It sucks. But after 2-3 weeks of going steadily, you get into a groove, and you don't feel right if you don't go. Just don't let yourself make any excuses, turn off the computer for an hour, and go to the gym.

Gamer girl all my life (literally sitting on my dad's knee with the original NES); focusing more on fitness has actually reduced my gaming... but I still fit in an occasional WoW raid and a few hours on Skyrim a week.

I LIKE THE THINGS YOU'RE PUTTING DOWN, OP. Friend me!

Female gamer here, mostly xbox some PC and Wii as well.

At the beginning of the year both my husband and I decided to work together to lose weight. I have lost ~63 lbs this year, my husband has lost ~70 lbs. In order to keep us on track we set up an achievement thing similar to Xbox for fitness, weight loss, and inches lost (and other accomplishments) we wanted to do in this year. We can then use the achievement points to get rewards.

Gamers assemble! Hit me up, its good to know Im not the only one. although LoL shame on all of you, Dota2 is where its at, and actually I have a spare key if anybody wants to join me.

I'm a LOL fiend also!

Gamer here as well. Mainly I just do Everquest (Evercrack, lol). I have lost a lot of my life playing that game and I still play some as well.

Since I refocused on RL, I do not play much at all. I have been able to loss 160 pounds since I got serious about leveling my self and my RL instead of my peeps.

I play CoD....

Okay, I play DDR for exercise purposes. I like to game and I am competitive, I can play and unlock levels and while I look like a big lame *kitten* I did punk some kids at Gameworks in Tempe, AZ last time I was there with mah mad skillz. Literally someone came up behind me and made a comment about the "fat girl" playing and how they could beat them. Then they couldn't do it. I am not even that good at it. Jumps kill my knees and my timing is way off.
As a bonus though, most of them actually count the calories you are probably burning and there is even a game where you can use your own music. Check it out.

Cyn

COD, cheeze its and beer are 90% responsiple for the weight i gained, its gone, but i had to ditch 2 of the 3................games stayed.

I would think that we 'gamer girls' should be best equipped for something like MFP since we're all used to farming XP and what better way to gain XP than through your own personal IRL character?

I think if you approach working out/healthy eating to that of typical uber game play it's setting yourself up for true 1337ness!

There actually is a website like that called Fitocracy. It even gives you missions to get EXP and you go up by MANY levels on that site!

I prefer the meticulousness of MFP, though. If you noticed in an earlier post, I wrote that I was playing Final Fantasy 12 for 4 hours while exercising simultaneously. In videogames, I am very OCD about getting everything completed, learning how to get everything as soon as possible, mastering all skills & abilities, unlocking everything, etc. So, I need MFP to have that OCD vs. using Fitocracy & 'playing a game' :laugh:

Some advice from a guy gamer....One way or tactic I've used is to log the amount of time gaming and then match that time with exercise..so 1 hour of gaming means 1 hour of some type of exercise. So you can make it a reward system for yourself...if I work out for an hour then I will put in an hour of gaming afterwords. Yea it kinda sucks because 4 hours of gaming is way easier than 4 working out but this system keeps me from blowing my free-time without putting effort towards my health. It's not easy and yes dieting sucks, lets not kid ourselves....yet the reward of watching yourself change and look better is awesome! Just in the last 2 months since I lost 12 pounds I have felt great with tons of new energy which actually makes me more "fired up" when gaming.

Also, at first I focused on not eating "as much" and didn't completely cut out chocolate or my favorite treats. After some time and seeing some pounds come off I have noticed I "don't want" to eat that stuff...I get guilty now. Its a total mindset. Good luck!