Getting Overweight from playing live poker and internet poker

[MicroBob]

goodguy gives good advice here.

I'm not exactly in the best of shape myself and haven't been for awhile...but I'm eating better...and still play on a couple of rec-league soccer teams against players 10-15 years younger than me (even though I suck) so I could certainly be doing worse.



Here's the part of the original post that really bothered me:

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I dont really want to work out, I want to devote all my time to playing poker.

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Did anyone else notice this?? (I only skimmed some of the replies).
You want to devote ALL your time to playing poker??


Look....work-out or don't work-out...whatever you want. You know you'll possibly just get fatter and fatter if you don't and then your self-esteem will get worse and worse.

If your looks are bad and your self-esteem is low you don't have to go anywhere to work-out...you can still do aerobic stuff at home.

but this bit about wanting to devote ALL your time to playing poker is just disgusting.

There's so much more to life than poker...and I suspect that poker is the 'escape'. You are drowning your self-esteem issues in poker (something like that...I'm not a psychologist so what do i know).


Back to the esteem and working-out, etc.
It's the New Year. Lots of fat people will make resolutions and will sign-up at health-clubs. You won't be the only WAY out-of-shape person there.
So if you can muster the strength to get a membership then do that.
Or work-out at home.
You'll need to find your own reason and motivation....or you can just keep playing poker all freaking day long and let your body deteriorate.


You need to find a reason.


I just recently won a trip on the party-poker cruise (to Jamaica and Grand Cayman in March) and the GF and I are using it as our motivation. We were both getting in better shape, but we are both a bit chubbier after Thanksgiving and XMas. It happens.
We want our cruise pics this year to be a little less-chubby then they were last year. And we have about 10 weeks to do that...so we're going to support each other in eating better and working out, etc etc.


But I also think you really need to think about your general life-attitude and this whole bit about "all I want to do is play poker" because that's kind of scary if you ask me.

[Rod Jr]

Thats the picture the doctor took of me today.

He actually states that eating better and working out will make me a better poker player because I will have the endurance and focus to endure the long marathon sessions I have.

He said, DIET and EXERCISE! LOL

By the way, feel free to insult my picture up above, it will just be used to motivate me! Thanks for all the responses above. I will post pictures monthly to keep you guys on the progress so I cant slack off.

[suzzer99]

Lay off the chicken, it has too many hormones.

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Looks like you may have GYNO but that will correct a bit when you lose weight and become clearer upon weightloss.

Chances are you may have a bit. I'd really recommend going to a bodybuilding forum(NOT bodybuilding.com as its full of a bunch of spastics with big ego's). Muscletalk.co.uk, musclezone.co.uk, johnstonefitness.com are all pretty good(specially the former two as you've got competiting bodybuilders).

Anyhow good luck - I really wouldn't post on a Poker forum about weightloss/exercise. Just my 2cents.

GOOOD LUCK! NOW LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO FIX UP!