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Achieve Something and Read This Post.

8/18/2011

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    So it's confession time. I am a gamer. Not a hardcore-gamer. But I am gamer. I grew up playing Nintendo during my youthful summer vacations, had a subscription to Nintendo Power Magazine, and I have watched the movie The Wizard more times than anyone should. These days I play Xbox 360 and with my time spent with this gaming system I have learned something about myself I couldn't pinpoint before. I love Achievements. 

    Achievements are these little awards that Xbox and game developers do for completing a specific task. For example one achievement in a game may be to shoot 100 guys in the head. After you do this over the course of your game a little message pops up with a sound effect that says you got the achievement and how many points it was worth. They are not needed to beat the game, just added to make games more fun and re-playable. Well, for me I can tell you that they drive me to play more. In some cases it begins to feel less like play and more like work to get them. I can't relax until I feel like I accomplished something.
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    This idea carries over to me in the real world as there are many tasks I do simple to achieve something. I find myself adding movies to my netflix I really don't want to watch but I add them simply because I know I should see them because the critics say so. I struggle through books I find boring only because once I start them I feel like I want to be able to say I finished it. Like achievements I can't ignore my daily tasks either. They haunt me. I cant relax until I finish what I need to do. After finishing a meal I have to clean the dishes right away so they are out of my mind and then I can sit with my wife and relax. But to sit at the table those extra 5-10 minutes, when there are dishes to be done, unthinkable. 

    In a lot of ways it's a curse to feel obligated to do tasks before I can relax. I need to achieve something before I can do nothing. However, if it wasn't for this mentality, I may never have been able to do my exercises everyday and get my weight down. I usually go right after work. There are plenty of times that I want to put it off, but then the idea of working out later haunts me and it is all I can think about. So I I get to it. I need that daily achievement.
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    All that to say, Thanks xbox. 

    I'm not sure why I went on this rant, just something I was thinking about recently.
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4 Comments
~m
8/18/2011 09:07:15 am

I found this page yesterday ... read the whole thing! Looked you up on fb today ... hit like ... saw the achievement post and the sound played in my head instantly! So ... 170 pts please :) Amazing blog you got here! *air five*

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Carmen
8/22/2011 01:23:00 pm

Read the whole blog today Tim. You are amazing! I am gonna have to get some advice from you on this, cuz I am gonna start here in a few days. sounds silly, but how do you start? slowly dump the carbs or just jump in...

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PoorMansAtkins
8/23/2011 12:36:15 am

Glad you got to check out the blog. Its fun to do and it helps to keep myself accountable. Gives me an excuse to eat fast food too.

When you start Atkins, it recommends that you start pretty drastic. They say 20 carbs only for the first two weeks. No nuts or fruit. Just meat, dairy and a little veggies. It gets your body into fat burning mode. They tell you that if you are larger and its working well you can stay at 20 carbs for a while. After the first couple weeks you slow start to introduct more things into your diet.

I seriously recommend picking up the atkins book and checking it out if you can (at least the first couple chapters. I ended up skimming it actually.) Get some coffee and sit in Barnes and noble. I think its just important to know some of the rules about how and why it works with your body and it will also help you notice the physical signs better for when the diet is working even if the scales don't seem to show it. I think thats one of the reasons atkins worked for me, is the signs were easy to follow.

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KJ
12/7/2015 10:49:10 am

Love your website . Im a gamer too altho i do PC . My first comment ever because *sigh* i wanted the achievement . Thanks for helping make keto a little easier :)

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