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Gaming for Good, Personal Regimen
Apr. 28th, 2020 08:17 amIn my last LJ/DW entry, I casually remarked my intention to sell off the majority of my not insubstantial RPG collection, which I have accumulated mainly over the last twenty years or so, and donate the proceeds to Médecins Sans Frontières. I made a post on a single specialist group on Facebook and, to be frank, the response was overwhelming. I now have around sixty buyers banging on the door, metaphorically, to raid the hoard. In the first three days I have managed to contact about a score of these and, as a result, have raised just shy of $4000 which is pretty good, to say the least. It is a massive change to something that has been part of my life since my early teens, and I have one bookcase of keepers, but when it comes down to it my desire for a massive collection of RPGs pales into insignificance to the benefits that Médecins Sans Frontières in the current situation, and for a snapshot of that places like Ecuador provide a grim snapshot of current events: Dead bodies are lying at home and in the streets of Guayaquil, Ecuador, a city so hard-hit by coronavirus that overfilled hospitals are turning away even very ill patients and funeral homes are unavailable for burial.
Just under three weeks ago, I received a doctor's report that I needed to make a few lifestyle changes with regard to health and exercise. It not that my lifestyle was bad as such, just perhaps a little too far on the gourmand point of the continuum rather than the epicurean. My response has been to tackle the problem head-on, largely following Silver Hydra's cheat mode; I've been doing weights alternating with cardiovascular exercises every day, bar one. That one day per week (the "uncontrol day") provides the opportunity for food like pizza and a couple of glasses of wine or even something stronger. I have almost entirely removed saturated fats from my diet. In fact, I am typically eating just one (post-workout) meal a day, nibbling fruit and nuts during the day. It all seems to have had good effects - I'm down 6kg so far. This is something I want to keep doing. I want to remain in something closer to peak health for my age, for what remains of my life. I might be in the second half of my life, but I am not prepared to relax and gradually fade away. Rather, I am going to burn with the desire to change the world and live my life to the fullest, for as long as I possibly can. As French situationists of the 60s once wrote; vivre sans temps mort - live without dead time.
Just under three weeks ago, I received a doctor's report that I needed to make a few lifestyle changes with regard to health and exercise. It not that my lifestyle was bad as such, just perhaps a little too far on the gourmand point of the continuum rather than the epicurean. My response has been to tackle the problem head-on, largely following Silver Hydra's cheat mode; I've been doing weights alternating with cardiovascular exercises every day, bar one. That one day per week (the "uncontrol day") provides the opportunity for food like pizza and a couple of glasses of wine or even something stronger. I have almost entirely removed saturated fats from my diet. In fact, I am typically eating just one (post-workout) meal a day, nibbling fruit and nuts during the day. It all seems to have had good effects - I'm down 6kg so far. This is something I want to keep doing. I want to remain in something closer to peak health for my age, for what remains of my life. I might be in the second half of my life, but I am not prepared to relax and gradually fade away. Rather, I am going to burn with the desire to change the world and live my life to the fullest, for as long as I possibly can. As French situationists of the 60s once wrote; vivre sans temps mort - live without dead time.
