June 2, 2011
How Motion Gaming Changed My Body
I am working towards my college degree. One of my professors assigned a paper that would require several months of effort. We were going to have to find a way to introduce ourselves to a new lifestyle. Most of my classmates were going to research the effect of what happened to others. Their paper would be based on the feelings of what others went through. For me, this idea was not attractive. I decided that I would change my lifestyle. The only question was, how would I do that?
It was easy for me to see in the mirror that I had a weight problem. I did not eat well and like many college students found it hard to turn down an offer of pizza and a beer. Because of the way that I looked, I decided it was time to devote myself to a lifestyle that would make me healthier. I was going to find a fitness program to get healthy.
I had a topic, but I still needed to find out how to reach my goals. 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.
Motion gaming is fun to do and it would be a good way for me to try to get the body I wanted. I would document the results and write my paper on whether it worked for me or not. I would devote most of the semester to the project. It was not enough time to get a perfect body, but it should do something. I do not think I ever expected the results that I got.
It was not hard to find out that there were plenty of titles that I could choose from to get into shape and I picked one out. 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. Being away at college I was surrounded by temptations, but I soon learned their were plenty of healthy options available too. It was all a matter of looking in the right places. 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.
Over time my body started to change. The bulge around my midsection was disappearing. I felt more energized than I ever had. But there were other things happening. The change in lifestyle affected more than my body. The positive attitude I gained allowed me to go where I had been scared to go before. There were plenty of people who also cared about who they look and befriended me. I was having more conversation with females. My social life was better than it had ever been. I found out that both males and females can have fun with video games. It was easy to document my research. The teacher gave me the highest grade. The xbox 360 kinect price is 159.99 US Dollars
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