Are you leveling up outside of EQ? (fitness thread)

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Originally Posted by kebas239 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

As a teenager, when I first played EQ, I had never exercised a day in my life and was very overweight. Between the ages of 19 - 28, I became a health nut. Lost about 100 lbs. I didn't participate in any major events, but I weight trained 3x a week, ran 5 miles daily and had a very clean diet. My friends had nicknames for me such as "meathead", because all I did was workout.

Lately, I've relapsed. I have been quite inactive and out of shape the past 5 years and regained all of the weight. Unfortunately, since this time around I'm 32, the excess weight/poor diet is beginning to introduce health problems so I'm really trying to get back into it!

One of the biggest challenges for me was boozing. I would drink my face off, eat like shit, feel like shit the next day, and break my rhythm. I haven't had a drop of alcohol in almost a year and a half now. I've been in the gym pretty much every week since then without a break. I'm also going on about 12 years of no soda. Those two things right there were a lot of excess calories I was intaking.

Even without going to the gym I would be able to stay pretty fit on my diet alone. Sometimes you just have to cut a few things out. The calories add up when you start doing the math by weeks, months, and years. You just have to find what those items are and commit to it.