Big Adam

Day 2 Recap of yesterday's Goals: Eat Paleo: ✔️. No Video Games: ✔️. Go to bed by Midnight on Weekends, 11:30 on Weekdays: ✔️ Goals for today: Eat Paleo. No Video Games. Go to bed by 11:30. What I'm thankful for: I have a nice coffee shop near my house that's great for doing work or reading. My Health Insurance from my job is very good so I can deal with unexpected injuries. Summary: Did some work at a local coffee shop, then went to the gym. Tweaked my shoulder on the last rep of Overhead Press. I've tweaked it before through Jiu-Jitsu. I think it's a nerve issue and not a muscle issue. I'm seeing a good chiropractor about it. If it still hurts tomorrow, I'll schedule an appointment with him this week. Went home and stretched, foam rolled, ate lunch and watched TV. I'm back at the coffee shop now to write this and go through Exercise 2 of Respawn. I've got a date in an hour and a half which will meet my Date/week goal for this week. I'll likely have a few hours of free time after the date during which I'd normally play games. I plan to batch-cook shepard's pie for the week, watch an hour max of TV, then read 'till 11:30. Goals for the week (Counting Sunday as the Start of the Week): 3 Gym Workouts: 1/3 so far. Go on One Date/week: ✔️

Hey Everyone. I'm a 31 year old male. I don't consider myself addicted to games, but it's a habit that's become more entrenched than I'd like it to be. I've been playing video games to one degree or another since I was a kid. I've always enjoyed them as a way to relieve stress and as a source of entertainment. Most of the time, I've kept my gaming within reasonable limits and it's functioned much the way that TV does for most people. 2-3 hours a day, typically at the end of the day to de-stress. I keep up with my work and train jiu jitsu multiple nights a week. Gaming has not been a problem for most of my adult life, but lately, I've been playing too much. Last Friday, this Wednesday, and this Friday: I stayed up until 6AM playing Dead Cells. Obviously that made me feel like crap all day the next day. In addition to playing too much, my brain has linked gaming with junk food consumption, so when I do play games, it triggers cravings for something sweet and it's easy to go into autopilot. I don't play to stop playing games forever, but I'm committing to the next 90 days. My goal is to break the strength of my gaming habit and bring it back as a planned indulgence after the 90 days. When I was a kid my Dad had a rule for us that we could only play video games on the weekends. I'm thinking I'll bring back a variation of that and keep it as a Saturday-Sunday-Only Indulgence. We'll see. Perhaps when the 90 days are up I'll find that I want to keep going cold-turkey. Today is Day 2 for me. I have noticed that I think of playing games when I have a long stretch of unstructured time. If I have no work or nothing scheduled for myself, it's easy to turn on a game to pass a few hours.