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Hi all. Last days had been crazy. Great stuff going on with our team here, so I'm having a lot of work to do. Today is the first day of my vacations, so I slept a little more and gone to the gym by 10 AM. I also went to the downtown buy some stuff. Everything is going well with my goals. Almost everyday I think about a new thing to the list, that's pretty cool. Tomorrow will be a big day. A very important meeting in the morning and a tattoo session in the afternoon! See ya.

Daily Update: 01/15/2013 Nice active day today. I walked from work to the bus point, and after my workout jogged for 15min in the treadmill. My training today was focused on Back & Biceps, so I did deadlifts again. I wasn't able to put more weight on, so I'm stuck at 220 lbs yet. For the first time since last wednesday I ate a sweet (one piece of carrot cake w/ chocolate). It's one of my favorites so I couldn't resist.

WOW! That's really a good way to start you Winter Transformation Challenge! Congrats.

Congrats! I'll be like you someday!

Good work! Congrats. It's very difficult go through an entire year without soda and you did. It's inspiring for everyone.

Hey Rhyme. Good luck with all your goals and especially with the Life Goal. I got something like you. I'm too shy to, so I don't talk to other people like you said. But you inspired me, I'm gonna try to be more sociable in the gym, and while walking home!

5 weeks is still a good time to go, so I think you can do well in the challenge! Hope you get better soon. The weather here is a little chaotic in the last couple weeks. I know how easily we can get a flu in these conditions!

Daily Update: 01/14/2013 I had a very busy day today. I got to go to downtown do some things, and I walked all the way. Certainly today I walked waaaay more than 5k but that's fine, I enjoyed it. I knew I would have a very busy schedule today, so I went to the gym first thing in the morning and did my workout. It's way better to go early, there were just me and 6 other people. I did my workout in a little more than 1 hour, which is very good because I don't like spending several hours in the gym everyday to do my workout. It's about 9 PM here and I'm still sleeping on my computer, so It's time to go!

hahah very nice and simple. I'll use it for now to remember! Thanks.

Hey. How is everything going. Don't quit on us. Remember rule #2 of the Rebellion!

I know how you feel. I was Coke addicted until the beginning of last year and I tought exactly like this. But the first couple of weeks are very difficult, but as time goes on it get easier. Nowadays I don't even feel the desire to drink it anymore. I replaced soda with natural orange juice (with lunch when available), coffee (in the breakfast), some tea in the mid-afternoon snack and lots of water during the day. I guess water is the best ally in this battle. But don't give up, in the end of the challenge you (and everybody else) will see the difference!

Did you ever tried HIIT? For example, you run/jog for 30 secs and then walk for 1 minute. With training you increase the running time and decrease the walking time.

Hi Laureleye. Thanks for the explanation. BTW I've bought the scale today! My walks are just a complement for the gym sessions, which I go everyday. But I'll give a look at the hotel room workout to do it on "off" days.

Daily update: 01/13/2013 After an incredible Ravens game yesterday we had practice today. 3 hours of football, so no gym and no walking today, because I think I've reached my mark during training! Now it's time to relax and wait for today's matches.

Hi. Good luck with your goals. I think a good way to reach 1 mile without walking is starting jogging in a slow speed, and completing the mile. After that you'll try to increase your speed every time.

Daily Update: 01/12/2013 Although the weather is not very good right now yet, it really got better yesterday and today, and I was able to walk to the gym. There I did more 20 minutes on the treadmill to reach my 5k goal, so it's going well now. Yesterday was Chest & Back and today was Legs day. Both workouts went great. I'm planning to go to the downtown on Monday to buy a scale (balance, don't know the right word in english!) and a BF caliper, so I could start taking measurements in my house. Which is something I really want to start doing.

Thanks. I've always had one idea like this and when I discovered Nerd Fitness I saw how cool it can be!

Daily Update: 01/11/2013 The last couple days aren't being very nice for my walking plans. It's been raining a lot here and it's impossible to walk to work. But on the other hand the other goals are going great. I've been cutting sweet everyday and don't feel the need to eat a lot anymore. I've started my Epic Quest List and every time I think about something I write down on my iPhone and put there after. It's been very funny.

Hi, nice goals. It's seems you're going great on your schedule. I hope you keep up the good work until the end. Let's walk into Mordor! o/

Hi all, this is my 2nd challenge. I`ve started in NF Community with last challenge on Novemver/December 2012. I had a big motivation to go through it with the NF Community members support, but with the Hollidays I kind of stopped with the boards (but keep on with the challenge). This time I want to be more active here while I go through this challenge, lets see what happens! GOALS: 1) Walk everyday (min. 5k). The distance to my work is 2.6 km. So I want to go to work and go home walking everyday, which will help me complete this goal. I'll took sundays as an off day, because we practice football on sundays, so, no way walking after that! Grades: A - 150 km or more; B - 130 - 149 km; C - 110 - 129 km; D - 90 - 109 km; E - 70 - 89 km; F - 69 km or less. Rewards: - DEX +3; - STA +2; - Nike+ Running leadership; - Knowing better the places I've see everyday. 2) Limit my candies intake. The hollidays came with a loooot of candies, different types of pies and other stuff. And I ate a lot of them. So now it's time to get back seriously to the diet, so I wanna limit it to one time per week. Grades: A - 1 per week; B - 2 per week; C - 3 per week; F - 4 or more per week. Rewards: - CHA +2; - CON +2; - One less visit to the dentist; 3) Deadlift 300lbs. Yesterday I did deadlifts and I went for my personal best of 220 lbs. So I think 6 weeks is plenty of time to work on getting into the 300's club. Grades: A - 300 lbs or more; B - 280 - 299 lbs; C - 260 - 279 lbs; D - 240 - 259 lbs; F - 240 lbs or less. Rewards: - STR +3; - STA +1; - 2 new achievements on Fitocracy (I guess). 4) Start my Epic Quest List. In the last couple weeks I've started my own Epic Quest List (not the final name yet) where I'm tracking all the things that I want to do to level up in real life. For this challenge I want to build the real list (don't know how yet) but I'll do this. When I figure out how, I'll post here! Grades: A - Create the list; F - Don't create the list; Rewards: - WIS +2; - First step to level up in 2013!

Good luck with the walking goal. I'm gonna put one on my challenge too. Let's do it together.

Hi Garth. Good luck with your goals. Your 1st and 2nd goals are very similar with what I'm thinking for my challenge! hahaha Good luck with all the goals.

Wow, that's a pretty hard workout, I hope you can do it! For the workout tracking, I use the Fitocracy app, think it's very good, so if you want to give it a try, I think it will help you a lot.

Congrats for you on the engagement. About your 2nd goal I have a suggestion: what you think of 1 treat per a couple days? I think this way you'll be albe to drop you extra lbs (if it's what you want). I got this in my mind because of the topic's name! Good luck.

I think your goals are very SMART. The soda one is almost mandatory for everyone, I hope you get by it. Good luck with all of them.