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Hey guys!

I don't know if you are aware of my existence (I know some in the SEA community are) but I have been a part of the community since launch but really immersed myself around April last year. I was more of a spectator than a player for most of last year, and only recently decided to 'get good' myself.

I have to say that this decision is perhaps one of the best decisions I've made in the past 18 months. For the first time I feel a desire to achieve something. This game sparked a competitive streak in me that I haven't seen since I played sport in high school, and with that it has brought up a number of issues with myself that I was simply ignoring.

Firstly, I noticed that my ability to learn has deteriorated in the past 12 months. It's like I just fail to understand simple things. When people ask me about starcraft timings, or attack timings... I just can't tell them, because I don't know. I fear that this will carry over into my first year of University that starts next month.. and I'll struggle to get back into things.

But most importantly, I am unhappy with my physical appearance. In the past 18 months I have put on around 15kgs. I went from 80~ Kilos to 95, and while I sit at 90 at the moment, I am absolutely disgusted at my current state of fitness. As a elimzkE could attest, I used to be one of the fittest people at school, and I exercised more than I studied. (Heh, I don't study much any more so I guess they are about even now).

I know it is the 'time' to lose weight and everyone 'seems' to be doing it. They put on those shit reality TV shows to make you feel 'bad' about your diet and try and force you into exercise via scare and shock tactics.. and I know you think that it is a part of my motivation. Honestly, my biggest motivation is when the next highlight real for ACL comes out, I don't want to be ashamed of the way I look on camera. Come April, I will not be some fat dude in a Chuckie T-shirt.

/end rant /blog. etc

EDIT: I will be doing a v-log of this, and at the end of it, I will show you terrible pictures of how gross I look without a shirt on, and then see how much it has changed over the 2-3 month period where I drop the weight/build muscle mass.