I lose weight playing video games.

I just want to talk about my weight loss to anyone who will listen. I figure you guys will.

All of my life, my weight has fluctuated. I was 316 lbs when I graduated high school. I took weight loss drugs like phentermine and got down to 225, but I rebounded back to the 300s. In college my girlfriend at the time left me and depression took me down to the 220s again, but I got over that and rebounded back into the 300s.

In 2012 I got my current job and got free access to a gym and got down to 275. Over that winter I rebounded because losing or even maintaining weight over winter is really hard. I hovered around 290-300 after that.

All my adult life I have been a fan of Dance Dance Revolution. I started playing it in 2000. But playing in the arcade every day was expensive and home setups were never adequate for the expert level play that I enjoyed.

Spring 2015: I bought my own DDR machine for home use. I found a broken one for a good price($800) and fully restored it. I have been playing it for over an hour a day, almost every day since. I've lost 55 pounds and more importantly, I was able to maintain my weight over Winter and started losing again. I'm now down to 269, my lowest weight since around 2007.

A couple of videos showing my progress:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LW-Xf6l-fPg - April 2013, around 300 pounds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBtEbDEglb0 - This past weekend, 269 pounds.

This is the only thing that has truly worked for me. Finding something that I enjoy that gives me immediate feedback on how I'm doing, and keeps me in competition with myself.

I hope that you all can find something like this and stay motivated.

Thank you for letting me ramble, and if you're in Central Arkansas and you wanna step on some arrows, send me a PM :)

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