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That's so awesome! I'm actually going to Amsterdam in December if you're into shopping, try going to a flea market. This one is apparently the best - http://www.ijhallen.nl/en/index.php

Haha I feel like I'm becoming a great liar when it concerns food. Where about in Netherlands are you going to be? It's a great country! Especially for cycling

Some of my foods this week can be found on Instagram

Week 1, Friday. Did 10 squats while cooking. Didn't practice pushups oops. Still no sugar in my life! Week 1, Saturday. Out with friends. Got offered sugar multiple times. Had to feed one piece to the fox declined others. So difficult to be polite and decline the nice offerings. But what can I do, sugar-free adventure is getting the momentum! Week 1, Sunday. Did 90 squats... Did 3 sets of 30, in between of watching Ghost In The Shell anime that's as nerdy as fitness gets! Week 1 recap. Did 200 squats. Practiced pushups 3 times. I manage to do a couple of them now. Perseverance! Haven't had sugar for 1 week now. I'm feeling hungry less often. Food fills me up quicker. I notice I decline food offerings when I'm out with my friends. Sugary things don't really tempt me anymore. Yay! Feeling great! Let's see what Week 2 has got for us!

yesterday someone bought me a caramel shortcake. I didn't even want it but I felt so evil for declining! so I wrapped it into a napkin, said I'll eat it later and gave it to a fox

Doing great! ;-)

Hi everyone! Thought I'd check in here too. It's been about a year since I've done a challenge with NF and the Adventurers guild seems the most fitting as my main goal is to cut out sugar from my diet and do random exercises. Living sugar-free has been amazing so far but I'm a bit worried about the weekend - it's always harder to resist temptations when you're not as busy. Anyone else feels the same? Here's an advice to watch out when exercising with your precious cats: Have a great weekend everyone!

Great job with choosing healthy food

Week 1, Tuesday. Rest day so not much happened here. Still sugar-free! Week 1, Wednesday. Did 60 squats. Love them! Also practised pushups. I can do maybe 5 normal pushups before I die. Also my arms are so weak. Anyone know some other good exercises for arms? Did 3x1min planks. Living sugar-free is easy because I do not have a huge addiction to it. Breaking the habit of eating treats, however, is harder. Week 1, Thursday. Rest day. Visited my favourite ice-cream place in town and only had a black coffee! Woop woop! Also, watched an anime movie Paprika. If you like weird stuff, I highly recommend this one!

Hi! Thanks so much for the advice on pushups. Kneeling pushups is exactly what I did before this challenge. I didn't know that was a bad idea. Feeling so silly now! Love the bacon pancakes

Yay! Doing great, Plasma!

Week 1, Monday. -No sugar consumed! Made great spicy tuna cakes from nomnompaleo cookbook. -Took a brisk 2 mile walk. -Did 40 squats among other things. -Practiced push ups. I think I can sort-of do them. Need to go much lower though. -Also made a new plank record - it's now 2 minutes 15 seconds. Woohoo! Let's see what day 2 has for me

Hello all adventurers! I am back to Nerd Fitness after almost a year. NF has taught me so much about health and fitness but then life got in a way and I just could not find the time for this forum. This does not mean that I didn't have time for healthy lifestyle - I eat 90% Paleo food, I cook all my meals and I try to exercise. Recently, I noticed I am getting too lazy to exercise and I also started to make bad food choices. So I thought I better tackle this before I fall into old habits! I have been with the Rangers before but I feel like I belong in Adventurers this time. Looking forward to seeing how everyone is doing! Main quest: Become stronger and fitter. Goals: Quit sugar for 6 weeks. Yup. Cold turkey. This also includes honey. Fruits are tastier anyway. I allow myself to consume 4 sugar food items in case I find a very tasty thing to try while I'm travelling.Do 200 squats per week. I will exercise more than that anyway but I love squats and I should do more of them. Having a specific number will give me a reason to get up from the couch.Learn to do a push-up. It's embarrassing but I still can't do them. So, practice push-ups 3 times a week. Motivation: I don't want to be dependent on food and I want to have a firmer body.

Short update. Yesterday morning, at the gym: A guy I was talking to earlier comes up to me while I'm doing deadlifts, adds more plates to my bar and tells me: "Do a 100kg." And this is the story of how I've reached all my powerlifting goals two weeks in advance. Gotta love bossy people.

I think I'm having some sort of anxiety attack or something. Can they last whole day? The worst is that there's no reason for that. I just feel very anxious all day. My hands are shaky, I want to cry and I'm unable to do things. What is happening it's very unusual for me. Any tips how to calm down? This is how it's going. Week's been fine, more or less. Didn't have much sleep since wednesday night though. Also, terrible tragedy happened in Glasgow. I've been in town myself when it happened but haven't heard the news till the morning. Thank goodness I was a bit further from there. Yeah, so week's been good, mood - not so. Weird stuff.

I'd love to be able to write my essays at the same speed as you write. I feel that all of us are way more busy during this challenge than in the previous one so don't worry for not keeping up.

Congrats on kettlebells upgrade! I does kick your ass and it never stops - there's always a heavier bell to use... but it makes you feel so strong and nice and pretty at the same time! (or is it just me lol) I'm really, really happy that you enjoy kettlebells

Tuesday, Week 3. Unexpected rest day - was supposed to go to the gym but my tyre got punctured so had to go to the bike repair shop instead. I was called unlucky by three different people in three different situations. The thing was, I myself wasn't feeling that frustrated at all. People call me unlucky and I'm like 'yeah I guess so' Baked first pie in ages (I told myself I could have 3-4 throughout the challenge), it was some banana-almond pie and it was delicious. My local food store stopped supplying ground almonds though, whyyyy. I did maybe 50 squats while standing in the kitchen and waiting for my pie. I like squats. Supposed to write essays, watched The Big Bang Theory all day... oops. Wednesday, Week 3. Ain't today my lucky day. So far, it's been the opposite of yesterday. First of all, I went to lift. And boy I lifted. Squats: I did LOTS so I'm not going to write down all the numbers BUT in the end I was squatting 60kg, then I though I could add some, I squatted 5 reps of 62,5, then I thought I could add more (wut) so I did a set of 65kg and then I was still feeling strong enough and I did 2 sets of 2x70kg!!! I promise I'm not lying because I triple-checked the plates I thought maybe I miscalculated as usual. Nope. It's official - 70kg reached. Now onto the 80kg... OHP and BP: I started doing a few sets of OHP and then noticed an empty bench so I also benched few sets. Went up to 35kg. Could have done more but I haven't done it in a very long time so didn't want to injure myself. Deadlift: I was feeling quite tired after squats and press so I just did 5 solid reps of 90kg today. Everything is sore now. Beautifully, amazingly sore. Roasted 2kg (something like 4lbs I think?) pork joint today. Mamamia how delicious it is. Anyhow, what an awesome day and it's only afternoon now.

Haha well I think I'm actually letting myself live WAY MORE than a little You know you have too much to do when you start thinking that your studies interfere with your life. It should be the other way around! The problem with weights is that as soon as you reach some goal you immediately see someone who's doing even better where do I stahp.

Congrats on the progress! Did you enjoy Hunger Games 2? I didn't expect it to be so good Now we get one more year of waiting... Good luck with week 3

I find myself repeating Arya's words when I'm lifting heavy things sometimes Great week 2, keep it going!

oops, it's week 3 and I haven't used the spreadsheet yet Other than that, I'm feeling very positive about this week!

OH MY GOD CONGRATS ON THE PRs I'M SO EXCITED FOR YOU!! It's probably because we are (or, 'were', since you just killed your maxs) going for the similar weights that I got so excited about this - there's hope for me there too haha. (especially with no coach). Never seen anyone squatting with their chin up so high but I guess it's a personal preference. Do you have any more videos? I'm always curious to check others out Anyway, I'm very happy for you

Enjoy your holiday! (that's how we call this in my island)

Monday, Week 3. A very busy but awesome day. Went to work, then to the gym, to the library, to my classes, home and then to some music event in the evening. Gym is getting better ever since I realized that I shouldn't wait for someone to start talking to me - I should be able to start conversations myself. So I made another gym-friend today (not really a friend but someone who's regularly at the gym). Yay! I'm slowly getting over my gym anxiety I was feeling very well today and the stats speak themselves (kg): Squats: 5x15 5x40 5x50 5x55 2x5x60 5x62,5 Squats with 60kg felt very easy so decided to put some more weight for the last set. Still felt alright. Maybe I'll reach 65kg next week! Again, bench was being used so did some overhead presses with 30kg weight. Not impressive but I really don't like presses Deadlift felt stronger today as well, added some weight. Deadlift: 2x50 2x60 2x80 2x85 4x90 2x92,5 I'm still in 'I don't know what I'm doing' phase at the gym but I'm getting stronger woo! Also, started 30day Paleo Thing again yesterday, so today's the second day and so far so good.