Nerds Unite!

Surely we are the coolest collection of people ever.

Oh I'm a former Warcraft addict

Used to play Horde .... of course

Something that was incredibly hard for me when I started my journey of health was prying myself away from anime and just about everything else that I love to do. Anyone else have this problem? I haven't 'given it up' completely but I feel like I'm not giving my hobbies enough attention. I can't even go on animeseason.com without getting the itch to start a new 100+ episode anime and just blowing off exercise for the rest of the month in order to veg out in front of my PC.

I did at first. MMORPGs were a big time sink for me. I had to quit cold turkey. I still play video games, but only single player. I avoid MMORPGs because I don't have the free time to play.

I found in the beginning I naturally stopped playing games. Mentally I think I swapped out gaming for exercise. So even after I gott home from the gym and had a good few hours up my sleeve before bedtime I still didn't game. It did the job though, because I didn't have the discipline to find a healthy balance. Gaming had always gone hand in hand with a big bag of M&Ms as well. Mmmmmm M&Ms.... *drools*... so yeah, my point being is that I gave all my vices up in the beginning to make the life style change to what I wanted, and now I'm slowly adding back in some of those things (gaming mostly). I'm not saying that's how everyone should do it... because I'm crazy, but do take note of the activities in your life that are counter productive to your goals and manage them. I still believe you can have your cake and eat it too... just not the whole cake in one sitting. :P

Nerds unite! (Gamer nerd here haha)

Not a nerd, but I'm looking for my first hot nerd....call me!

I identify with all the things that people say nerds are, but you won't ever see me calling myself a nerd. I prefer, "really awesome person." :laugh:

LOL! Me too! I love shows on History, Military Channel... anything where I can learn something new. I'm a former teacher on my second career as a paralegal.

I don't play RPGs but I'm a big Tomb Raider fan and the Hidden Object games on Big Fish Games are my faves.

NERD! I think of myself as more of a geek. Some of my freaky geekery includes, but is not limited to:

Joss Whedon (as a person) and his work (FIREFLY!!!!! Browncoats: I'm thinkin' we'll rise again.)
quantum physics
Oblivion- any video games, mostly fpshooter and rpgs. Some mmo's. I don't play that much right now, 'cause I'm trying to make money. arg.
swords and martial arts
Martial arts flicks (Korean, lately)
comics, superheroes, graphic novels, some anime (just diving into that world), WOW porn (TMI?)
Shibari
board games
running!
books books books! Mostly SciFi and fantasty, but anything's fair game except for romance novels. Ray Bradbury was one of my first loves. Laurie Marks, Mary Gentle, Octavia Butler, Tolkien... Reading Wheel of Time right now and just getting into Glen Duncan (The Last Werewolf- excellent!)

and ooooooh so much more. I luv me sum freaky nerdy geekery

Great thread.
I'm totally new to fitness pal. Anyone feel free to add me if you want. I'm mostly geeking out on the tracking software right now...

Cal

A nerd since the day I was born...and proud of it! Feel free to add me!

Something that was incredibly hard for me when I started my journey of health was prying myself away from anime and just about everything else that I love to do. Anyone else have this problem? I haven't 'given it up' completely but I feel like I'm not giving my hobbies enough attention. I can't even go on animeseason.com without getting the itch to start a new 100+ episode anime and just blowing off exercise for the rest of the month in order to veg out in front of my PC.

I did at first. MMORPGs were a big time sink for me. I had to quit cold turkey. I still play video games, but only single player. I avoid MMORPGs because I don't have the free time to play.

I found in the beginning I naturally stopped playing games. Mentally I think I swapped out gaming for exercise. So even after I gott home from the gym and had a good few hours up my sleeve before bedtime I still didn't game. It did the job though, because I didn't have the discipline to find a healthy balance. Gaming had always gone hand in hand with a big bag of M&Ms as well. Mmmmmm M&Ms.... *drools*... so yeah, my point being is that I gave all my vices up in the beginning to make the life style change to what I wanted, and now I'm slowly adding back in some of those things (gaming mostly). I'm not saying that's how everyone should do it... because I'm crazy, but do take note of the activities in your life that are counter productive to your goals and manage them. I still believe you can have your cake and eat it too... just not the whole cake in one sitting. :P

I've done the same. Not happy with it though. I think I've read maybe 3 books in the last month and I used to do that in a week. I did just renew my subscription to WOW. Hopefully I can keep a balance. Wish me luck lol!

And star wars.... I ****ing love star wars. I don't know how I forgot to add that on there. SWG used to be awesome until Sony ****ed it all up. Then WoW was awesome for a bit until SWTOR came out. Then that went to **** and I returned back to my first love, xbox and mtg!