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I did the same and in addition to this, for some periods of time, I was deleting recommended gaming related clips that Youtube was serving me, because I was always tempted to click them. After like 2 weeks Youtube looked like censored version of this stuff Keep it up Eli! Cheers Yep, watching 'The 20 Worst Ubisoft Games' wasn't related to what i was doing so i deleted everything, games, videos. Congrats, Eli

This. This is the best motivation to use to get you started mate! Continuing on from this, its when developments are happening in world news and you have no idea what they are talking about as well. It's like World War 3 could start right out your doorstep and you would have no idea. True

Thanks for being such an awesome support! Nice goals man, mine don't have nothing on yours

Usually, i don't try to beat myself up on my off days but when i do its because it has something to do with the yard, after that the exhaustion just jumps on me.

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Hey man, i know how that feels keeping a buttload of stuff, didn't really say a whole about when i was going to use it again. As far as not eating for more than a few days, idk. But, good luck to your printmaking dude.

Day 5: Alright, got some good news coming my way and man does it feel good to finally get these in the mail today after so many years of hard work. I think this is a great first step towards self-improvement for anybody if they put their minds to it. I would award myself with a nice session of Forza Motorsport but now that i actually have some merit in my life, not quitting from gaming would have just reminded me that i suck at life and can't get nothing right, all of you can agree, some of you can't, and it's fine just as long as you have something to look forward to at the end of the day. Anyway, it should be easier to apply for the technician and therapist jobs i have been researching for weeks now and this made me even happier. Now i can finally move on the next thing in my life: Getting my Bachelor's Degrees and scouting for jobs. And i have you all, Cam, and my other support to thank that pushed me to snap out my 'virtual world' and do what i was supposed to do in the first place. So, thank you. Back to reality, ill just keep this short, leaving from my second group of classes today i met a 15 year army veteran and he told me the in's and outs of how to beat the VA's system. Look hurt and file for PTSD. With gaming, i never really would've paid attention to it but now that i'm fully attentive, i actually listened to him and accepted his advice. Two wins.

Good luck, Vlad, hope you bring in more than a few employees

yep. same thing with Killing Floor 2- daily drop, summer events etc etc. the event ended and I ended with it, burnout finally got me. Researchers found that every notification you get on facebook shoots some dopamine-the reward chemical- into your brain. This results in you opening the notification to see it out of curiosity causing you to spend more time on facebook and occasionally jot some content down on the site. As for the social aspect, I have good enough friends on steam, I think. I have known most regulars for 2 years and some for 4-5 years. I sent a message out to each group telling them that I have currently got a lot of priorities in life to deal with and that I will be off steam at least until around December (don't even bother giving a specific date, they might start messaging you when it drops). If they are unhappy about that, just tell them "I know but you know how it is, work -life balance, the family, other friends." If you can find something completely unrelated to games that you share a common interest in perhaps grow that interest from there and never mention games again. Delete the app and ask someone who does not play pogo to hold your account by changing email and password for the time being. I deleted everything even vaguely game related off my computer (even went so far as to clean install it), removed myself from the groups on discord and then removed discord, removed the hard drive storage so that I couldn't install loads of games on it and that was that. I am sure some of them who didn't get the memo in time have messaged back, but I am not going to be bothered in doing a rain dance to view it. Only a small ounce of guilt crossed my mind but knowing I parted on good terms-at least temporarily was good enough for me. If I want more social; I will take up a social hobby and make new friends, there are plenty of other nice people in the world (but the really good ones are 1 in 100 I swear). I got rid of virtually every aspect of social media including facebook and felt a lot better for it-If I could not delete it then I made a gmail account, spent some time changing emails and then deleted the gmail account. At the end of these 90 days I will think about selling my steam account (dodgy but how are the robots at steam gonna know? I want to recoup some of my costs back). That was step one for me, i plan on joining a club or organization in college. That new game or email update you got about a brand spanking new feature/meta will get you to log back in. I'm just glad i found this forum to see if anyone else had the same problem.

Yeah, steam can be tempting...

True, @giblets, you have to start off slow to gain more distance, i once backed down from running 10 laps around a mall (equivalent to almost 7 miles), but eventually i had to face my fears, pick a day, and just run. I really didn't care about where i was going just as long as i can feel good for doing something right. Good luck on your half-marathon.

When i was 19, i was a serious stress eater, never exercised, never even tried to do something proactive, the only thing i had to look forward to was gaming and whatever my dad cooked. I had friends that i would hangout with after school but with my dad being an army veteran, he apartment hops a lot so i never got to see them again, now 24 he lives with me and my grandmother in her house since his second house foreclosed 2 years ago. It honestly wasn't until my 2nd year in college that i figured out that i had to lose weight. Being over 192 lbs in college wasn't great for my well-being and made me feel like one of those old people you see at retirement homes without the balding hair. Still gaming, i started doing something proactive and signed up for a gym and hit the weights and treadmill hard, sacrificing some of my game playing time. starting a diet, now i weigh almost 180 lbs feeling confident. So, its ok, its all about how you take care of yourself, everybody who posted above may have similar advice, good luck NewComer.

I agree, like me it takes an amazing amount of mental strength to endure without fault, but its really up to us to make that decision to improve our lives, only YOU are responsible for YOU, i wouldn't let nobody take that from you as you find your strength and weaknesses. Knowing that, Life won't set you up to fail, negativity will.

Day 4: Just came back home from school today after being there for 6 hours, and it went ok. Wasn't thinking about creating my next character online, wasn't thinking about buying games, wasn't trying to force people to 'add me online', school isn't a dating site (for gamers, lol). People come there to learn and focus on earning their degrees, and the best part about it is that i'm in a class with upper level sophomores, seniors, and juniors with no nostalgic teens to break my concentration. So there are some high expectations for me and no nerds trying to game in my classes, its all black people trying to get somewhere. Being back in class reminds me of my senior year in high school, all pumped up and motivated for that first lesson. The teachers there seemed more open about a plethora of literal and up-to-date topics on what's going on out there in neo trump america and the local areas of where i live. I feel that i can really do this now minus my books, i'm still having trouble getting those after some confusion in my financial aid. The real challenge has just begun.

Tommorow will officially be the day that I can have freedom to get through college without gaming all the time and I made some long term goals and short term goals to keep me focused: 1. Maintain a 4.0 GPA (its a Psychology major, rquires an amount of work) 2. Fix my car (Water pump overheated) 3. Build Social Skills Short: 1. Control my finances 2. Concentrate on studying 3. Detox from gaming (threw this in as a bonus) So, like you all I want to live as proactively as I can. I want to use this to help encourage myself and others to live a better life by making goals, but in order to do this it takes practice, like @CamAdair says in his videos.

Keep it up @giblets, running isn't as easy as it sounds (ran 5m in AIT training before), except my group was a little smaller so the pace was moderate

@Mettermrck Thx, like for you all, it was probably a fight trying get off console/PC @Vlad Right, would be best to write a quick note to remind myself why should I quit

thx, hahaha, 5'6 @ 181, not that small, honestly doing a personal HITT workout at a MuvFitness gym got me back on track toward actually losing the "gamer's weight suit" after the military. I was originally 192 lbs and cared little about excercising but kept my eating down to a minimum when I was in Korea. My NCOs made sure of that but it wasn't enough to pass my running test, unfortunately.

Whoops, misread the post, I still get you though HappyCat, much luck to you and your family

@CamAdair Thx for letting me join

You got this Daniel, quitting for the first few days is tough

Day 3: I'm starting to have those urges to game again, my mind keeps making me think about Assassin's Creed, but it can't make me do anything since i sold my games and my PS4. And with me being broke paying for school, idk what will happen once i do get paid, i fear i may relapse and start gaming again. Update: Ok, i guess watching youtube videos while playing with a deck of cards at night helps keep my mind occupied, i feel bad that i wasnt able to make things happen when i was gaming but im happy that im making a change in my life. I cant move out of my grandparent s house yet, but there's going to be a light at the end of the tunnel, just got to pray. At times, the only reason i leave the house is to either clear my head or pick something up for my grandmother who has Alzheimer's.

Yep ninja, going on 48 hours for me today, i had that feeling of turning my system on when i did my first detox years before i got on these forums. I ended up playing again, The Xbox won. This time, i admitted my faults and nothings going to convince me to go back, gotta quit cold turkey.

Whatever you do man, please don't stop that vibe, it's good your finding out your passions like us to keep you preoccupied brother.

I can relate HappyCat, working on my 2nd Detox from gaming, i learned from my first detox (that didn't last more than a month) that game subscriptions can be enticing and i admit i too fell prey to the Xbox One subscription a few years back. I ended up making a plan to waste money because of its great features. As funny as this sounds, i went and decided to buy the Xbox One in pieces (Kinect, Games, Xbox) to save money. As i was doing this i was working at Walmart at the time so i didn't care. And that's where my problem lied, so i quit my job and went to continue my schooling and not worry about gaming. So, i'm glad i'm not the only one.