SelinaKyle

Main Quest: Unfuck my relationship with food. I have food issues for all the boring suburban middle aged woman reasons. I'm working on them. 1. When I have a food craving for something that's not on the list of reasonable foods, try to put it off. 2 points for successfully putting it off, 1 for thinking about it and mindfully doing what I want. Not kicking into "holy shit! I'm not going to FEED me!" panic mode is the name of the game here. Again, I have issues. 2. Two points for tossing away the last few bites of anything. Points not posted here on the same day don't count 3. Continue the path I've been following for three weeks of doing the exercise that the Apple Watch tells me to do, raising the calorie goal tne percent every Monday. One point for every category where I meet my goals. Life Quest: Five minutes of cleaning. Just five. A point for doing five. Motivation: What you'll note about these goals is that they are tiny baby steps and shouldn't be that difficult to do. I'm hopinh to build habits and build them in a relaxed and happy way that will sneak past my anxiety monsters.

Setting up. Thanks for the suggestion.

Sometimes I do a "tuna fast" where I wait until I'm really hungry, eat a can of tuna, repeat. But I don't think that has the benefits of IF.

Thanks, CaveMom. My knee is bugging me, so I'm planning to just do my normal running around today, skipping the gym. Yesterday was a weights day, so today would have been a cardio day and I tend to value those less anyway. Eating a giant salad for lunch. Thought the intermittant fasting article was interesting. I don't do that well. By the end of said fast, I'm going crazy and I eat twice as much at dinner. So it was gratifying to see that the benefits for women are dubious.

Yay! Thanks for the encouragement. Eaten completely clean all day today so far, also walked for 45 minutes on a 6-8 percent incline treadmill and swam some intervals. Onward and upward!

That makes sense. Muddy is a problem, but for me at least, them steaming up was one too. A bit of water would have solved both those problems, I guess. Today was supposed to be a recovery day, but then was hanging out with a friend and her kid wanted to go the the playground, now I've got a yen to go get in the pool. I'm not good at recovery days.

I love the "20 seconds of insane courage" challenge. Go get 'em!

Mud Run After Action Report Ok, first of all, I more walked than ran. As other people who have run these have said, that works well. Often there were lines at the obstacles, and so there was a group of people who jogged it and I more or less was with them the whole time, I just got to the obstacles a few minutes later and waited a few minutes less. That said, getting my running endurance up a bit is still a goal because there were a few straightaways where being a better runner would have helped. I did skip obstacles, specifically the ones where lifting my own body weight was an issue. That is the number one thing I want to address in the coming weeks. One of my buddies suggested the GAIN fitness trainer's iphone app, that has a set of workouts called "circus skills" that is good for that. May check out that. I went there understanding that I wasn't going to be able to do monkey bars or lift myself over six-foot walls, but I was a little bummed that I couldn't make it up a cargo net. Makes me want to find someplace that has a cargo net so I can practice. Part of the problem was that the cargo net was both wobbling around and vertical. Also that my hands were sandy so grabbing it hurt. But mostly, I'm just still kinda heavy. Going to work on all of it. There were a lot of balance ones, wobbly balance beams and all that, but my balance is good and I did fine. No problem running through tires, crawling through tunnels and under barbed wire all could have been faster but went fine. So being able to lift and manipulate my body weight is the big thing I need. Working on it in the kitchen, other suggestions welcome. SK Oh, and wore a pair of OldNavy running shorts and my NerdFitness tank top, with my Vibram KSOs. That all went fine. I wear glasses and needing them wiped was an issue, but I'm not sure how to conquer that given how muddy one is for like an hour at a time. Even a clean cloth in a baggie in my sports bra wouldn't work.

Still on plan as far as food goes, but it is only Wednesday so I'm not like giving myself a medal. Yesterday was super cardio day--Talking on the phone while on an uphill treadmill at lunch and then talking to another friend and taking the dog for a long walk in the evening. Today was Squats, Rows, reverse crunches, birddogs and the military press, then a half hour doing intervals in the pool. *pant.*

So far so good on day one. I'm on plan food-wise and did about an hour walking at an eight percent grade. Walking uphill is oddly exhausting. It always seems to take more out of me than it theoretically should. In a sense, I don't think this challenge will really start until the mud run this weekend, given that it will be showing me what I really need to work on.

I came here to start my own accountabilibuddies group, but I saw this one and had to join instead. Hi, I'm SelinaKyle. I'm 35 and have gone from "really fat" to "kinda fat" and am still exploring things my body can do. Thanks for having this. I'm pretty good about exercising, but I need all the help in journaling that I can get.

I like this new quest format. It is motivational. Also, I'm largely stealing my format for this page from some other dude also training for a mud run, though my goals are way scaled-back from his. Main Quest! Become a mud runner. Don't embarrass myself on the third of the three mud runs I'm planning to do this fall. To complete this goal I will need to work on three areas: -Building up my cardio endurance -Getting at least enough arm strength to pull myself around -Becoming overall physically fit enough to do a bunch of this stuff in a row. Here's the plan: -Severely kick my own ass at the first of my mud runs this week. Come in, at best, ahead of old ladies and other fat people. Ok, fine, most old ladies and fat people are smart enough not to do this kinda thing in the first place. So I may come in last and that's totally OK. If at all possible, complete all obstacles, if not, take really careful note of what I can't physically do. -Rebel Fitness guide workouts 3 times per week. -Talk on the phone while on the treadmill, with the treadmill at at least 6 percent grade 4 times per week. Then sprints. -Don't suck at eating. Side Quest! My life goal will be to show up here and journal. Twice previously, I've done all the exercises I've needed to complete the quest I'm pretty sure, but not shown up here to write about them. Motivation: Over the last year, I've lost 55 pounds and gone from "Really fat" to "kinda fat." I just want to conquer some things physically at this point, see what my body can really do. It's more about exploring than conquering, but there you go. Grading/Points Workouts graded on a weekly basis. An A for not missing any. (7 workouts total. Yes, lifting and walking in one day counts as 2) A B for missing one. A F for missing two or more. My diet will be graded on a weekly basis. An A 1 screwup or less. A F 2 screwups or more. My life goal will be a pass or fail every week, no leniency.Only allowed 1 fail week. For my Lifting portion I will assign (STR-4) For my Endurance portion I will assign (STA-4) For my diet portion I will assign (CON-4) Life Goal (WIS-3)

Great challenge! What's the posture flow? I sit a lot during my day.

Thanks for the push. I'm ok, just haven't been updating. Went to friend's house on Sunday and she had made epic paleo brownies. So i was only down .2 this week. But lifting and running keep going. Today is a running day and I will update again afterwards becuase updating is good for the soul.

Yeah, I feel like when I'm running inside, the temperature is one less reason to stop. Also, it's been humid these last few days, running outside would suck. It's lifting day and I'm going after work, so I will update then. So far I've gotten lots of work done and eaten nine carbs worth of food. So that's something.

Best theme EVAH. I am considering stealing this for a future challenge.

The rumor on my facebook feed is Hugh Laurie. He would actually do a good job, but at the same time, he'd be bad for the role for many of the reasons detailed above.

Today I did three sprints over a 20 minute jog. Usain Bolt isn't going to be like calling me for advice, but hey, improvement is improvement. 40 pushups, 40 second plank and 40 crunches

I'm thinking about the one in Richmond, VA in September.

I admire your spirit, but I'd be AMAZED if pull wins since all its exercises require equipment. I don't know about you dudes, but if I'm standing at the printer waiting for a print job, I do some incline pushups right there because why not? One doesn't have a ton of opportunities to casually do a pull-up, even if one is capable.

PeggySR-- The Dirty Girl has a cool tanktop and swag counts for a lot with me. Looks like there's one in Roanoke in September. I know a good B+B there if you decide to make the trek. If I do a late September one, will probably be the Warrior Dash just past Richmond since I will have an easier time getting a road trip buddy if I can promise them dinner at the NYD. (Sorry for all the Virginia talk, non-Mid-Atlantic folk, but trust me, you would drive me 110 miles each way if I bought you dinner at the New York Delicatessan in Richmond, Va. I realize nothing about "New York Delicatessan in Richmond, Va" sounds promising, but they have a sandwich called the "Sailor" that is the best thing EVER, even after I take off the bread.) DrsLoomis-- I've been using a treadmill on around ten percent grade. I realize "treadmill in a gym" is suboptimal for a lot of reasons, but the temperature control lowers the suck factor for me a fair amount. I plan to up said grade as soon as possible. Zebarah-- I do some leg lifts too, particularly the kind where you're flat on your back, then lift your legs to 90 degrees. Deadlifting makes my back tense and the leg lift relieves that tension. Might switch them out for the crunches. You're probably right about the Warrior Dash.

I'm another unhelpful person doing exercises in both columns (albeit more in "Push" despite that it might release Cthulhu)

Early on the 16 is better for me. 23rd is fine I think.

In other news, there's a Warrior Dash 100 miles from me two months before the mud rub I'm doing in November. I'm seriously tempted to do it by myself to learn where my mud run weak spots are. Thinking about it...

I got a Speedo one-peice that is plain but quite servicable on Amazon for around $50 and have been happy with it.