Jangles

Here's me if I can be added please! https://www.fitbit.com/user/2XTBLG

Posting this to remind me to do this later! Week 4: Checking your starting credits Well done, you've made it to the end of week 3, so now you get to level up to Level 1 and you get to allocate 10 stat points to your challenge. We use 6 attributes in NF Real Life Roleplaying: Strength (STR) - physical strength Dexterity (DEX) - agility and speed Stamina (STA) - Endurance and Energy Constitution (CON) - ability to resist damage and disease (also related to diet) Wisdom (WIS) - intuition and sense of things around himself (any learning that you've done is also included) Charisma (CHA) - force of personality and physical attractiveness (sociable aspects of your challenge are also included) So your quest these week will be as follows: 1. Allocate 10 points to your quests 2. Do a mid challenge summary and rate yourself on a percentage scale 3. Using your rating, allocate points to your challenge so far. You can round up/down if you don't like fractions (like i do). 4. Update your signature with your points 5. Let us know how you've allocated Example: 1. Goal allocation: Q1: Walk 5k a day = 2 STA Q2: Eat Paleo 5 days per week = 3 CON Q3: Go to gym 3x/week = 1 STR & 1 DEX LQ: Have 3x social interactions per week = 2 CHA & 1 WIS 2. Mid Challenge Summary: Q1: Walked 5k 3 days a week = D (45%) Q2: Ate paleo 3 days/week = B (60%) Q3: Went to gym 3 days/week = A (100%) LQ: Had 3x social interactions per week = A (100%) 3. Challenge allocation: Q1: D (45%) = 0.9 STA Q2: B (60%) = 1.8 CON Q3: A (100%) = 1 STR & 1 DEX LQ: A (100%) = 2 CHA & 1 WIS 4. Signature: STR 1 | STA 0.9 | DEX 1 | CON 1.8 | WIS 1 | CHA 2

Mini Challenge Week 3 So your challenge for this week has 3 parts: 1. Pinpoint the quest in your journey that is giving you the most uphill (or one that you're struggling to achieve) I'm struggling to get in a BBW. I prefer to do them in the morning, as soon as I've done my walk with the dogs but haven't been doing it then as the kids are up, watching telly, playing Minecraft or Skylanders and whine and moan and complain and cry (they're not really brats, just tired!) about leaving the livingroom (the only place in the house I can exercise) for 10 minutes. So, I think, I'll do it in the afternoon when I'm childfree. But I haven't been. I've been too tired, or doing housework, or finishing orders for the small business I've started. It's harder now as the school holidays have started so I don't have kiddy free time, except in the evenings but that's the only time I get to spend with the husband. 2. Search through NF (forums or articles) to find one that is able to offer some assistance I didn't search but someone posted this one which sort of applies in the Campus Tours thread. 3. Apply it to your challenge (no collecting underpants here). I've spoken to my eldest today about how when I get back tomorrow from my walk, I need him and his brother to leave the livingroom for 10 minutes while I do some more exercising to get fit and healthy. He agreed but we'll see how it goes. I shall get my nagging practiced!

I'm not sure what day it is except Monday. Last week was rough for me. OK, it was more than rough. I was heading for a breakdown (I know what caused it and there's nothing I can do to stop this happening right now). I didn't do anything except a walk on Friday morning. I did walk up a very steep hill, chase kids round a park and walk home again though. I'm feeling better today, but I couldn't drag myself out of bed at 5 so only went round once today. My wonderful, wonderful husband bought me a FitBit! I'm going to go and join the FitBit accountibillibuddies group. If there is one, but I'm sure there is. One other thing that I forgot to mention the last time I was on here, even if I sit on my decreasingly lardy arse for the rest of this challenge and even though I've not done as much of the BBW as I said I'd have to do to pass, I'm still going to count it as a pass. Why? Cause I can run up the 12 stairs in my close! I managed it the week before last and have done it a fair few times now, enough to notice a difference in my speed up them and my breathing at the top. Today my breathing was just like I'd walked up them!

No puppies here except mentally but yep, getting them out every Monday to Friday morning for a big walk round the local reservoir. They're loving it, as am I!

I have a couple of dogs you can borrow...

Week 2 mini - done! I have a rubbish signature but I'll work on that and I follow Asa Pond, Babyfishfish and chloehawker

Day 5 Another 4.30 start this morning, my phone ran out of charge halfway round my first lap but did two today again. Bought a Fitbit today so hopefully that will be here soon and I won't have to worry about my phone anymore as it's annoying me not seeing my stats. (About 17 months ago my phone was immersed into strawberry milkshake, cola and then dropped into water by an inquisitive two year old. It still works but sometimes when it's charging it discharges but says it's still charging and sometimes it says it's charging when it's not plugged in.)

Days 2-4 It's been a rough few days here. My phone stopped charging during the night so didn't wake me up on Tuesday, yesterday I was utterly exhausted and miserable and my stats didn't save. Last night I fell asleep reading a book on my phone so it wasn't on charge but I woke up at 4.30 feeling nice and refreshed for a change. I was up at the reservoir for 5.35 and did a lap myself then met M and did a lap with her too. I'm very lucky in that I've made some good friends recently who have lost a lot of weight in the past few years or are still in the process of changing their lifestyle and who are an incredible support. Two of them have bought me water bottles to help me make sure I'm drinking enough water.

Week 2 Day 1 The walk this morning was hard and I don't know why. I think I was shattered as I didn't get much sleep over the weekend (mostly self inflicted or just my stupid body saying I've not been awake long enough to go to bed yet) but from my front door to the reservoir, round it and back it was 2.05 miles and a total of 4133 steps. I'll hopefully remember to put it on for the school runs tomorrow. On a more painful note, I have blisters on my little bloody toes. Yes, plural. Both feet have blisters. I was wearing my new trainery walking shoes today with socks I made (my first pair that were done cuff down so the toes are a bit weirder than I prefer) and after school we walked to a park a good walk away from home (and uphill!) then home and I now have blisters. The one on my left toe is really just a mountain of blisters. Mr Jangles is under orders to bring blister plasters home so he'd better or I really don't know if I'll be out tomorrow morning. I had a bad weekend too. I didn't get any walking with the dogs done, I didn't do the BBW. I've not even done it today. The livingroom is a mess and that's the only place I have to workout, the kids think I've been away for a year when I get back in the mornings and act like I've just stomped on a kitten if I ask for 10 minutes to workout. I'm struggling for motivation and energy. Please pass me some?

Huge congrats on your Uni stuff! Most impressive! The clue to why you eat fish is in your name... And what part of New Vegas did you discover? I thought I'd found somewhere new once but I'd come to it by a different direction so didn't recognise anything then got the 'this looks very familiar' feeling and then felt like a dumbass.

Day 5 Today was a lovely walk but a hard one. A gorgeous wee dog jumped up to see me and I dropped my phone as I was putting my pedometer app, so the battery came out and as my phone is half borked from being dunked in strawberry milkshake, cola and water by youngest monkey not long after I got it over a year ago, I couldn't get it turned back on so no stats today and I wonder if that's why it felt like a hard walk today. Also, my trainers are seriously gubbed. They're so worn out now that I need a new pair so hopefully get some on Sunday. I didn't manage to get the BBW done today. Kids were all over me again when I got home (seriously? I'm only gone half an hour max from them getting up!) and then it was biggest monkeys sports day at school then off to meet some other women who all run their own small businesses where we meet up and craft and gab. I've noticed I'm quite cold a lot now, is that unusual? Am I just weird? Is it cos I'm not used to the sun which we've had for 5, yes FIVE days in a row now? Tomorrows another day and I'm still on target for passing everything.

I haven't done the BBW today yet. I was walking home from the nursery run (yay me, I went the long way which is twice as long as the way I usually go) and heard about Christopher Lee. I promise I'll do it tomorrow. I've to do it again on Saturday, will I be in trouble if I don't have a rest day between them? I really can't be bothered just now. I just want to climb into bed and hide from the world. I'm so fed up of pretending to be an adult and who decided I was grown up enough to be a parent? I can barely take care of myself! Bad word this depression! It can bad word, bad word, very bad word off.

Day 4 That was a lovely wee walk! I forgot to set my pedometer app when I left the house but I left it running for the walk home so it says I walked 1.64 miles in 38 minutes 27 seconds. I took 3308 steps and will have a blister on my left heel as I couldn't find socks and wore a pair of my hubbys that now have a hole in the heel. OK, it didn't say that about the socks but it's still true. Plasters ahoy! Kids are still all over me so I've not been able to do a bodyweight workout yet so I'm doing the school runs all smelly and sweaty. Again. On another note, I think I'm going to lie and say that the Dobie is getting worse with pulling every day as for half the walk, he was great! There was slack in the lead for the first time ever at the start of a walk. He's still got energy to go round again and is pulling a bit on the way home but not much. The Border Collie has started wanting to chase cars again. Le sigh. I mean, the dogs were just horrendous today! The dobie pulled so much that my right arm is hanging on by a couple of bits of skin, there's blood all over me and it's actually quite hard to type with a semi-severed limb... I'll update again when I've gotten to do my BBW.

Week one challenge complete! Woohoo!