When Your Dungeons and Dragon Online Character is Eating Healthier Food Than You

It's Time to Change Your Eating Habits

Gamers are known to spend an insane amount of time playing their favorite games. There's really nothing wrong with this kind of behavior unless they neglect the more important things in life like family, hygiene and health. While I really have no control of what gamers do with their lives, I know that at one point, some of them have neglected one or the other. I know because I am a gamer with borderline addiction. While I am in no position to talk about family issues and I believe that personal hygiene is something that should be inherent regardless if you are a gamer or not, then that leaves me to talk about the gamers' eating habits.

Being a gamer means sitting in front of the computer from hours on end adventuring with your online friends, looting virtual money, and slaying mythical creatures. Well, that's how gamers are perceived in general. Then there's the intensely loyal set of gamers who are so into the game that nothing can pry them away from their beloved game, except of course for real emergencies (e.g. house is burning), calamities (e.g. tornadoes, earthquake), or unavoidable circumstances (e.g. game server downtime). This paints quite an unpleasant picture of the whole gamer lifestyle or the lack of it. Little distractions are allowed because some of them are beyond one's control, like a child suddenly tapping the keyboards to get your attention or a wife asking for help. But there is one ultimate distraction that gamers can't resist: Food. Plenty of food.

Food is the fuel that keeps gamers awake for the gaming marathon. Food in itself is not bad, but if you combine it with a sedentary lifestyle, it can spell major problems, one of which starts building up around the waist line. So, people start to assume that if you are a gamer, you weigh at least 200 pounds. While I am not aware of any conclusive studies supporting the assumption, I know that it's very possible on the merit of my own experience. I am not 200 pounds but I have seen how fast 10 pounds take shape in areas you don't want them to be forming in.