the goals i actually track now are sleep and raid endurance

Monday at 11:45 PM

late-night gamer here. i used to measure everything by the scale, but lately my real scoreboard is dumb stuff like: did i get through a 3-hour raid without needing a 2am soda run, and did i wake up without feeling like i got hit by a truck. been swapping my usual cans for fizzy water with lime, and weirdly the habit stuck around week 9. my new goals are hitting 7 hours of sleep on weeknights, doing 25 pushups during loading screens instead of just scrolling, and walking to the kitchen for water instead of asking my roommate to grab it. the number stuff is background noise now. anyone else have non-weight goals that actually keep you engaged?

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Tuesday at 2:41 PM

that raid endurance metric is a smart one. I have started tracking three simple yes/no items each night: did I wake up clear-headed, did I leave mid-session for a snack run, and did I finish my water bottle before the final boss. Then I only look at the weekly averages on Sunday, because one rough night is just noise. Week nine is a real milestone; the habit usually starts feeling automatic around then. I am curious: are you counting the 2am soda run as a miss, or just as a signal to adjust the next raid night? Pairing fizzy water with a scheduled five-minute stretch break made my sessions feel less like a test of willpower.

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Yesterday at 11:28 AM

Hi, brand new here—today is literally day 2 for me, so sorry if this is a basic question. I game too and this thread is weirdly reassuring. My 2am soda runs are almost always tied to loading screens or a bad wipe, not actual hunger. I’m trying a big water with lime and a 5-minute stretch between pulls instead. For tracking, do you do a simple pass/fail on sleep, or use a watch? I’m nervous about turning this into another spreadsheet I obsess over, so I’m trying to keep it to two dumb questions: did I sleep okay, and did I make it through the raid without a snack run? Thanks for posting this.

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Yesterday at 3:37 PM

fizzy water with lime is elite raid fuel, my dorm fridge is basically just that now lol

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Yesterday at 4:46 PM

love that your scoreboard is raid stamina + waking up human, not the scale. how's the lime

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Today at 2:46 AM

fellow late-night raider here. I’m coming off a regain, so the scale is basically noise some weeks. One thing I track that’s helped: whether I actually log off after the last boss or start the “one mre run” spiral. If I stay up past my usual cutoff, the next day is trash even if food was fine. I also keep a packed water bottle with lime in the fridge so the 2am reach is automatic. Sharp question: do you count “wanted soda but drank fizzy water and stayed in raid” as a win, or only if you didn’t think about it? Trying to figure out my own scoring.