Eating Better - Like A Roleplaying Game

You know how in a roleplaying game, your character starts out very poorly and you have to build up their stats and aquire new items as you go along?

For me, it's kind of like that. The more I learn about nutrition, the stronger I seem to become. Fighting cholesterol with almonds is like fighting an ancestral ghost with Trebonius' staff. In the beginning you are trying to fend them off with an iron shortsword, but it's just not doing the job. The right tools go a long way.

Each pound lost is like one level gain. It's exciting! Finding a magical ring in an urn is as exciting as finding out you've lost inches off your waistline. I'm on the road to face Dagoth Ur...and, errm, my goal weight of course.

I am such a nerd. I love it.

I absolutely LOVE that analogy!! :) My boyfriend has just started playing WOW and his cousin has been playing it for a couple months now so I totally get what you're saying.

I wouldn't touch WOW with a long stick, but I do play Morrowind a little too much. ^____^ :D

OMG!!! Gamers yay!!! I don't play WOW... know loadsa people who do though! I only do a bit of tabletop, more of a LARPer really - lots of actually running around waving pretty pieces of plastic!!! I completely love this analogy, it's fantastic (and also sort of true for larpers - the faster I can run, the faster my character can!)

What kind of LARP?  I'm a LARPer myself.

The typical old fashioned fantasy kind mostly! We've got dwarves and elves and all!!! Also a member of the camarilla... that's vampire and werewolf games to the normal mortals of the world!

I play in OWBN.... Vampire: the Masquerade.  Yayy for blood sucking creatures of the night!

In the camarilla we play Vampire: the Requiem! So close!!! And I second the "Yay for blood sucking creatures of the night!"

I'm a Champions man myself...

All I gotta say is LOL and its so true!

I have a Cam membership and (very rarely) play a Lancea Sanctum Gangrel... but I don't like NWoD so much, to be honest.

Hmm...any Neverwinter Nights fans? Or Heroes of Might and Magic? (I know, I know, old school, but hey ~ I'm 36!)