Motion Plus Motionpluswii
2009
How Motion Gaming Changed My Body
I am studying at a university. For one of my classes I was going to have to do something and write about the results I got. We were going to do research on what happens when someone has a big event that alters their life. Many people in the class decided to do this by talking to other people. Researching this way was easy because it was about someone else. I decided to go another route. I would write about how I felt if I made a change. I had to figure out the way that I should change my life.
Most of my life I have been on the heavier side. I was surrounded by temptations that caused me to do things that I probably should not do and it showed up in the way that I look. Being overweight gave me the perfect opportunity to make a change that I could write my paper about. Finding a way to lose the weight and get a body to be proud of became my goal.
The key to making this change was to know what I was going to change. I was going to do it in a new way that many people tout and that is through the use of video games that involve motion control like the xbox 360 kinect or the Nintendo Wii, or the Playstation Move that seem to have become commonplace in just about anyone who has a children now have in their home and has become popular with people of all ages.
I decided to see how much help a video game could really give me. In order for me understand what was going on, I would track my progress in a journal that could be turned in at the end of the class. This was going to be a four month project for me. It was not enough time to get a perfect body, but it should do something. In the end I surpassed all of my goals that I had set.
A trip to an electronics store got me a exercise game. My laptop gave me a place to store my thoughts and the actual results I got. Another part that I took into consideration was the food choices that I should make. Making those changes in the environment I was in was not as difficult as I though it would be. I had a meal plan that included a lot of good food. The key was knowing what to put in my body and what I should avoid. One thing I knew that would have to change is the amount of partying that I would do, but this turned out to be a blessing because it created more time for me to start using the kinect system that I had on a regular basis because I was not either hanging out with friends in a bar or sleeping off the effects of those late nights.
As the semester went on, I began to see some results. I was getting fit and trim. I felt more energized than I ever had. And there were some things that were unexpected. The change in lifestyle affected more than my body. I found myself stepping out into areas that I avoided before. I met a new circle of friends who enjoyed making the right choices for their body. I was having more conversation with females. My social life was better than it had ever been. The girls I met were also into gaming. It was easy to document my research. The teacher gave me the highest grade.
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