In this look at how poker has impacted my life, I’ll be covering the following topics:
- Finances
- Career
- Health
- Marriage
- Friendship
Welcome to Part 3: Health
This will be the shortest of the topics I cover – not because health isn’t important to me, but because the impact poker has had on my health is negligible.
Growing up, I was a chubby bookworm. As an adult, I was much more than chubby & a couch potato. In my late 20s I joined Weight Watchers and lost 100lbs – I have more or less maintained that loss since then…although I was, and still am, far from my goal. To achieve a normal weight, I had to lose almost exactly 1 half of the weight I started with. Pretty crazy.
But I’m way healthier now than I was then, so while I’m far from goal, I’m in a much better place.
All that happened before poker though. Since poker, nothing much has changed health wise. It’s not as if I had an active lifestyle that I abandoned for the lethargy of online poker. I was pretty lethargic then – I’ve just traded in the TV remote for the mouse or the live game.
So physically – it’s a wash.
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I tried to tell my wife that poker is a sport and that it should count as exercise. She basically laughed at me. So I pressed the “Interests” button on the TV remote, selected sports and sure enough I found Poker listed. Despite irrefutable evidence, she still wouldn’t buy it.
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