Forget the "Freshman 15".... how about the "World of Warcraf

papa3x
papa3x Posts: 286
edited November 11 in Chit-Chat
LOL.... cut my title off..... "World of Warcraft 25".

My family and I play the World of Warcraft online game.. And while I take responsibility for my actions, I know that indirectly, playing that game helped me gain 25 pounds over the years. Before my finding MFP, I was always bring a " little something " into the office when I played..... nuts, chips, coffee...... since MFP, I have basically eliminated that. But here is something I now do... Just started last week:

Whenever I finish running an instance, I make myself walk to the top floor of my 3 story house 5x, before I can do another.... Sure, that's not much, but it might be 15 flights of stairs a day.

Anybody else here think that this game indirectly affected your weight in a bad way?
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  • papa3x
    papa3x Posts: 286
    C'mon, there are 12 million players, surely some of you can admit it! :)
  • Darkskinned88
    Darkskinned88 Posts: 1,177 Member
    dont play WoW but i get what you mean about gaming. Sometimes you are just playing and eating not even realizing you just finished a whole bag of chips with little to no workout to make up for it
  • LauraMacNCheese
    LauraMacNCheese Posts: 7,173 Member
    All I can think about is the South Park WoW episode...
  • papa3x
    papa3x Posts: 286
    All I can think about is the South Park WoW episode...

    LOL, THAT was pure genius!
  • timaeus_drache
    timaeus_drache Posts: 104 Member
    Don't play WoW, but wanted to chime in and say that your stair-breaks are brilliant.
  • Cold_Steel
    Cold_Steel Posts: 897 Member
    Yeah I quit the game for the 6 months to lose my 100+ now I am playing it again... The big difference from before is I sit to play one or two instances or one raid then Im done. I don't do it 7 days per week either... Lately I have due to stress at work but the big difference is I was 330 calories short today.. Instead of chips... a coke and two plates of dinner scarfing down during a raid... I had half a pepsi max can... and a bottle of water.
  • xASHYxSMASHYx
    xASHYxSMASHYx Posts: 175 Member
    Well I used to sit around a lot playing facebook games that wasted a lot of my time, and didn't help me take any weight off that's for sure. But I have traded them in for Kinect Games on the Xbox like Your shape and I love the dancing ones.
  • EngineerPrincess
    EngineerPrincess Posts: 306 Member
    Not sure if WoW more induces eating, but my boyfriend has actually lost weight because he's played skyrim hours into the night without taking a break for even food, and then he wakes up in the afternoon and skips breakfast, often having dinner as his only meal on saturdays. xD
  • AntWrig
    AntWrig Posts: 2,273 Member
    I can relate. While I didn't play "World of Warcraft", I played a game called "Eve:Online". I would get off of work, go to Dunkin Donuts. Get some coffee rolls and a ice coffee. I would then head home and play for hours. I had some great times, gained a lot of weight too.
  • douglasmobbs
    douglasmobbs Posts: 563 Member
    I had to stop playing WoW as it took up too much of my time. Not only bad for my health but it was not fair on my family.

    If I could play something like WoW 2-4 hours per week I would happily play the games again, but I simply can't, I don't think the games are designed for players who only 'put in' a little bit of time. I certainly am enjoying spending the majority of my own time with my wife and kids rather than randoms on line.
  • sld_12
    sld_12 Posts: 11
    I actually found the opposite to be true. When I used to play I was way TOO into it and would actually eat less because I was too busy running instances and raiding. And then I went to university and found that I snack while I read. Go figure.. lol
  • Cold_Steel
    Cold_Steel Posts: 897 Member
    I actually found the opposite to be true. When I used to play I was way TOO into it and would actually eat less because I was too busy running instances and raiding. And then I went to university and found that I snack while I read. Go figure.. lol

    Further proof that reading is bad for your health...
  • nalfavi
    nalfavi Posts: 174 Member
    Yep, I totally gained weight from gaming, especially WoW. Well, not from it, but 4-6hr raids, soda + snacks during them, you ge tthe point :)
  • k43la
    k43la Posts: 18
    I gained the WoW 40..ish in the years I spent playing. I've quit for good though. It's just not conducive to a healthy lifestyle, at least for me. It's either play for 12 hours straight or don't play at all. I've been WoW free for a year and I've lost about 25 pounds :D

    I just try to keep myself off Skyrim so the same thing doesn't happen.
  • shady81x
    shady81x Posts: 290
    Nope. I'm usually too busy in WoW to get my hands icky with chips or snacks - I'm kinda fussy, I hate it when there are like grease stains on my mouse or salt on my keyboard... etc. Sure, at times I have no choice but to have my meals when I raid, but that's pretty much it. No extra food.

    My "extra food" intake problem comes when I sit down and watch a movie, or chain watch eps of a drama :grumble:
  • kiwiclove
    kiwiclove Posts: 24 Member
    I didn't play wow but I used to play ffxi for years and for hours at a time and I know what you mean. I used to auto munch horribly too when I played but I found if you just keep that stuff out of reach or put something you can tear through and not ruin your waist over, like a bag of carrots, you'll be too busy to bother getting up to get it when you in the middle of leveling or I guess questing for wow.
  • InvidiaXII
    InvidiaXII Posts: 315 Member
    Hah I'm sure WoW did affect my weight, as up until very recently I used to raid for 3.5 hours, 4 nights a week. I've since cut way back and have been using that time to hit the gym! Will probably start playing more again when Mists of Pandaria comes out >.>

    Here's my poor, now-neglected toon: http://us.battle.net/wow/en/character/skullcrusher/Imalia/simple

    Feel free to add me, would love to have some WoW buddies on this site, since I'm talking to my guildies a lot less lately!
  • vancil01
    vancil01 Posts: 70 Member
    Hey there fellow WoW player :) I know what it is like to stay sedentary for a long period of time while gearing up and I have never found a way to stay gamer fit with WoW. The stairs thing is a great idea! Maybe add some pushups and body weight squats or lunges as well!! When I am playing the 360 like MW3 for instance, I will do as many pushups or squats as I can between matches.

    For WoW, maybe run a couple instances with your main, then hop on a DPS toon and workout while you are waiting for your queue to pop? :D
  • papa3x
    papa3x Posts: 286
    ....


    For WoW, maybe run a couple instances with your main, then hop on a DPS toon and workout while you are waiting for your queue to pop? :D

    Ain't that the truth, LOL.
  • SFalconStorm
    SFalconStorm Posts: 77 Member
    I remember when I played WoW, I used to think that if I actually did everything my character did, I would be tiny. I think the game industries need to invent a new type of MMORPG with VR where you actually have to DO everything your character does...except the dying. Lol. Unfit gamers would go the way of the dodo!
  • InvidiaXII
    InvidiaXII Posts: 315 Member
    I remember when I played WoW, I used to think that if I actually did everything my character did, I would be tiny. I think the game industries need to invent a new type of MMORPG with VR where you actually have to DO everything your character does...except the dying. Lol. Unfit gamers would go the way of the dodo!

    Made me think of this! http://wow.joystiq.com/tag/exercise/
    And a while back I remember reading about a guy who had a setup where every step he took on the treadmill, his character took one in game, so he literally did have to run everywhere he wanted his toon to go.
  • Krizzle4Rizzle
    Krizzle4Rizzle Posts: 2,704 Member
    I play WoW and I have for 6 years. I wouldn't say I have gained weight from it though.
  • plumwd
    plumwd Posts: 161 Member
    I haven't gained weight from playing wow, I'm not a huge snacker so that isn't an issue for me. The one thing I can say is that it definitely takes time away from other things. I could be working out instead of raiding.
  • crepes_
    crepes_ Posts: 583 Member
    Haha, I definitely know what you mean. I only play after having done my exercise for the day. But I know that there are some people out there who built a desk for their treadmills. They only play while on the treadmill. A guy lost 90lbs doing that. Maybe you could think about incorporating exercise into your hobbies.
  • Hambone23
    Hambone23 Posts: 486 Member
    I'm sure I gained weight during that time. I was so sedentary (probably more so than now with a screwed up knee). And if you were raiding? It was a quick dinner shoved in the oven or the microwave right after work and eaten quickly at the computer desk while you got ready for the raid. Horrible eating habits. Finally, weened myself and my boyfriend off WoW after the last expansion. But you know, there were plenty of people on there who'd log off to go to the gym. Not every WoW person is a fat, lazy person. It's probably the norm, though, to get a little pudgy when you sit and game all day. ;P
  • papa3x
    papa3x Posts: 286
    Haha, I definitely know what you mean. I only play after having done my exercise for the day. But I know that there are some people out there who built a desk for their treadmills. They only play while on the treadmill. A guy lost 90lbs doing that. Maybe you could think about incorporating exercise into your hobbies.

    I do... re-read my OP.
  • mesockisgone
    mesockisgone Posts: 6 Member
    I play SWTOR and after every level I gain I go do something like lift some weights or sit ups and push ups. Usually when I play I always think that I could be working out or something but I have fun and I still get in the stuff I need.
  • Acherona
    Acherona Posts: 134 Member
    ME I PLAY WOW! and im happy to admit it :) i love it however i dont play it hardcore and i usually do it after working out :)
  • Another WoW-Head here! I used to do 20 sit-ups everytime I used a flightpoint... toned up well doing that.

    There is / was a system where someone hooked up a Kinect to a PC, and mapped the WoW controls to it...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvgOvjdDZag
  • TOTALLY a WoW victim.. currently playing SWTOR instead. I don't sit and game for as many hours a day as I used to, but I'm a lifelong gamer (starting back with TI computers!) and it's in my blood. Before MMOs I would sit in front of a console and snack. I used to snack, snack, snack, drink beers, and snack while playing SWG, WoW, etc - any gaming. My ex- and I would stand up at break time during raids and do Carbombs... lol. It was tons of fun, but it ruined my body.

    I now live in a two-floor apartment (side-by-side) where my kitchen is downstairs, which helps. I don't have the ability to walk five feet to my kitchen. I might bring up one snack and a drink (sometimes a beer, but usually water or juice now) to game - and I only do it for an hour or two, if at all.
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