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Dawww shucks. I know that we have a bunch saved in a notebook somewhere. The motivation badger must return so many more costumes and characters in the last five years. Very excited to see you back! Hope we can accountabilibuddy for each other again

I recognize that badger! Also,

Thanks everyone! Again I went semi-MIA (seMIA) this week. The crap thing at being good and diligent at your job is that then your bosses want you to do ALL of the things. One day I will learn, just be mediocre. Anywhos, it was a pretty good week overall. I did a lot of walking due to my new only listen to my favorite podcasts while I walk. I typically listen to comedy and video game podcasts w/ the occasional learny ones like Freakonomics. Had a pretty crap Friday because of office doughnuts and potluck breakfast. It was a pretty outstanding Friday, but not great food decisions. But yum. This weekend was an ice hockey tournament for charity. I haven't played hockey in over a year I believe, but it was fun and I didn't embarrass myself. I scored a goal actually *pats back*. Playing this weekend I had a lot of fun and I'll be looking for playing with a women's team in the fall, hopefully. Exercise is easier when it is fun. Now I'm off to check some threads. Hope everyone has a good week!

Last week was kind of a struggle. You know when you just feel off a bit. You're not sick but you still feel eckgh. Well that was me last week and it led to bad choices and not going to bed on time and not waking up on time. Just a stumble out of the gate. So of course I've made some adjustments to correct course. I need to start stretching and taking the dog for walks in the morning. I'm saving my two favorite podcasts (which run between 2 and 3 hours) only for walking time. That way I'm rewarded for not being a chair barnacle and I have something to look forward to and spring out of bed in the morning to do. I only had one stumble with the hoagie at the beginning of the week. Now I'm making giant batches of chicken breast that I just throw in the crockpot and have on hand. I've been mixing it with onions and peppers and burrito fixings for a burrito bowl without rice. nom nom. I was lazy and didn't do any batch cooking this weekend, but I hope to do a little bit tonight... fingers crossed. I haven't been on NF too much. I need to schedule that into my day. I try to sneak on during work but I can't focus on it, so it is useless. Maybe 30 minutes in the morning or 30 minutes before bedtime each night? On to week 2.

Good to see you around. Congrats on the little one. Also... breathing practice... I need that too. Good idea.

1-800-Doctor You can do it!

Anything that is not normal routine I get anxious about. Logically I know everything is fine, but my body just goes into panic mode. That sucks. But good job on the workouts and such. Looks like you are doing well.

I was all like... hey, let me get back into reading threads. Oh I know this MadHatter lady... ... ... idk

You're all too kind. I'm glad to be back. I NEED to be back. Feel like I hit my "rock-bottom" health wise the past couple of days. It all starts with being sick this weekend and not being able to batch cook, which rolls into not having food in the house. Then boom I'm not packing lunch or bringing food to work and now I'm sitting here with half a Wawa hoagie in my stomach feeling like death. Doesn't help that last night I had ice cream for dinner. Whoops. While extremely cool to be an adult and able to have ice cream for dinner it is not the healthiest choice. So, I'm just going to wallow in my crappy hoagie stomach. NEVER AGAIN HOAGIE!

Sooooo I kind of disappeared from NF for a little bit because of life things. I've been doing well on my own due to habits I've picked up through doing challenges and being a part of the community, but I feel like coming back for another challenge to keep tabs on myself. … How do I do this again? Goals, challenges…. Riiiiiiight. Let's dive in. Goal 1: Waking up at 5AM every morning, going to sleep at 10PM. For the past couple of weeks I have been waking up at 5 in the morning to try to do fitness things. Well the waking up part has been going well but I lack the motivation to do body weight workouts in the morning. I think that is one of the reasons I have kind of stalled in my fitness goals. I just can't muster up the motivation to do reps and workouts. So I think now the waking up early is primarily going to be for morning stretching and chores. Being boring and consistent I find is a key to success. So I also have a bed time. An hour before bed I'll start stretching and reading. That way I'm not playing video games or looking at any other type of screen before bed (for better sleep). There's a lot of little pieces to this goal, but mainly it's the waking up and going to bed on time. That leads to productive days. Goal 2: Pack lunch. I started a new job at the beginning of May. The people at my office (lovely people) looooooooove to eat out. So I need to try my best to not get sucked into ordering out all the time. I'm usually pretty good at it, but sometimes I get lazy and don't pack my lunch... and then oops a burrito happens. Goal 3: Journaling - keeping up with NerdFitness This place is great for me, but I get distracted a lot and forget to log-in and update. I also happen to be a Guild Leadery type so it would be good of me to keep up with the guild. So one of my goals as I get back from hiatus is to come in and update once a week, as well as find time to read other challenges and doing Guild leader duties (hehe... doody). Not a very concrete/specific goal at this point. I need to look at my schedule and kind of feel out what kind of time commitment I can make. A lot of this challenge is habit building, as well as just analyzing myself to see how to life better. Anyway, more on this later. I'M OUT!

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MINI CHALLENGE UPDATE We harness our inner Little Finger. Sounds so wrong.... OH WELL! GET DOWN WITH THE MINI