My Journey and Why I Built Habits Warrior

Throughout my student life, I struggled to maintain good habits. Strangely, I had no trouble being consistent with the bad ones. I’d fall into eating junk food, taking in excessive calories, skipping workouts, procrastinating until the last minute, dropping courses, and abandoning my goals. That pattern followed me all the way through to the end of my master's degree in philosophy.

By the time I graduated, I was the heaviest I'd ever been—78kg, up from my usual 72kg. But more than the weight, what hit me hardest was the feeling of failure—not just physically, but in life overall. I felt stuck, unhealthy, and unmotivated.

A close friend and I had talked before about going to the gym together. I always had excuses. The main one? “I need to focus on my thesis.” After I graduated, I finally gave in. I told him, “I’ll go to the gym for a short while—just until I hit my target weight. Then I’ll stop.” That was my mentality at the start.

But everything changed after reading just 10 pages of Atomic Habits. Something clicked. I didn’t want to just lose weight anymore—I wanted to become someone who is healthy, disciplined, and active.

Still, it wasn’t easy. One of the biggest struggles was constantly comparing myself to people who were already fit and muscular. I’d look at them—and even at my friend, who had been training for years—and feel like I was failing. I’d think:

This feels like an MMORPG, and I’m level 5 while everyone else is level 45.
That gap felt overwhelming.

That’s when Habits Warrior was born.

I started building it while continuing my gym routine and tracking my calories. I realized that seeing my real-life dedication reflected in actual stats gave me a new kind of motivation. It wasn’t about comparing myself to others anymore—it was about becoming better than the person I was yesterday.

I began to see habit-building like going to war. A war against comfort, distraction, and unhealthy patterns. And in that war, you’re not alone.

Habits Warrior is here to support you—like a companion in an RPG. Your progress becomes visible. Your streaks build a habit chain you won’t want to break. Your stats grow. And every time you choose a good habit over a bad one, it’s like gaining XP and leveling up.

Let’s fight this battle together—
and become the warriors of our own lives.