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Thanks for responses guys! Today was a good day, had a my haircut done, watched a movie, played some guitar. So I guess 2/30 is complete. In regards to my relapse, I think I watched too much videos on youtube/twitch and got hyped to go back and recreate those moments, also our bet was over which eased it a little bit too. Anyway, haven't watched a single video containing video game footage today, except for some chess blitz

Hello everyone, I'm Tomas from Lithuania. Self-employed, working at home husband. But there is a problem, I can't help myself to stop playing video games. There is no such thing as: "Well, I'll just play for 1-2 hours" Every time this happens, I end up just going on a gaming spree for hours or even days. I become hard to talk with, I don't eat well, I don't do my job. I'm looking to change my behavior once and for all. I've actually had some success during this summer and haven't played for ~100 days by doing a proposition bet with my friend who is also a gamer. But after the summer ended, everything collapsed. I just went out to basically play League of Legends for a week without any serious breaks. Gaming like this serves no purpose in life, it drains my mental and physical energy, there are times where I'm not even having fun playing, but I'm "forced" to finish the whole match. I want a fresh start and I hope that I can share my journey with you guys. My goals: Long term: 1. Quit video games for good! 2. Start regularly exercising. 3. Finish my board game. Short term: 1. Don't play any video games for 30 days. (1/30 complete) 2. Exercise at least 2 times a week. Also, not all video games are bad. I have some great examples of games which involve something else without a mouse, keyboard or a joystick: "Rocksmith" and "Just Dance". These two games are great learning/exercising tools which I will be using during my free time to relax. That would be it for now.