Sedreen_Valorn

I don't know what everyone else's favorite breakfast is but mine is simple as hell and has room to add more too it: OMELET! And guacamole. Always Guacamole.

Doublepost: Finally got a profile picture up. Here's the only body one I'm comfortable showing at the moment (I do have the suggested "swimwear ish" photo for personal motivation of "NEVER AGAIN" for myself though) Its a bit blurry. I realized I have terrible posture from this shot, so today I also started sitting up and walking with a good posture. Exhausting in a sense how "normal" human movement things are never learned or unlearned by many of us. I keep my shoulders forward, which is bad, i down sit up straight, bad. Noticed my tail bone is dipped because of years of this, but supposively with enough bullheaded stubbornness of correct posture it'll correct itself and good posture will become automatic.

Basically I purchased the nerd fitness guide and I am on level 2 recruit (did a lot of level 1 and it got to be to easy and I just wanted a change of pace). I will be testing myself out to see what I can do in terms of squats with weights and pull ups and deadlifts tomorrow. I read up on the benefits of them, saw what I was doing incorrect with previous squats (thought I was close to correct lol) but if these are the big "works multiple muscles" exercises, than I am game to give them a shot ontop of other workout material. Still a bit unsure if thats safe to do or if i should spread out the deadlifts/squats as they work the alot of the same muscles (dont they?). Any tricks for BALANCING weights when lifting? I feel like no matter the weight i'm using I have terrible form with free weights if I lift them over my head in (presses). I can lift a heaviear weight for a full set, but then I can repeat it for 2 more sets. Unsure if i should go down in weight or increase rest period (I'm sure I don't rest long between sets, i'm bad like that i guess, or impatient). I choose the quietest time on campus in the free weight strength as my time to exercise (luckily i have the perfect "no class" time before noon when its next-empty. Less men for me to get enviously distracted (another bad habit that ussually would leave me running for the hills months ago). As for eating I stick to as-paleo-as-possible. I'm not going to be terribly picky if I can't afford the expensive locally grown foods, but I'll get what I can when I can and plan out meals throughout the week to have cook in a crockpot (never used one personally but got a cookbook full of recipes to try out) and simply cook and package up meals/snakes weekly or biweekly ( i need to pick a day) so I am not wasting time thinking about what to eat, when to eat, what to work out, when to work out - everyday. I probably just spent 4 hours this night combing through articles and questions I kept bringing up to myself. I've already kicked pop and sugary things long ago, fried food (barely ever ate in the first place and cringe at the thought of doing so). Most of my weight loss now will be due to the effort I put into exercise, because I have on average been eating well for probably 6 months to a year. The moment though you have those days you want something QUICK and don't have it already prepared ahead of time seems to be the times when your willing to accept fast food of some kind.

I'll begin this with a short bio about myself. I am 24 and 193(ish) pounds and am 5'11. My entire adult life as well as my childhood I have been overweight. I do not recall ever not having a gut. Since I was 3 months old I had been diagnosed with asthma, and while it is not much of an issue any more, it led to many of my poor habits. Staying inside, avoiding physical activities, never learning to swim (terrified of not breathing when i was at swimming ages). As I got older that only translated into being uncomfortable with my shirt off and therefore I have never learned. Be expecting to see it on a list for a challenge in the future. I have always taken twice as long to accomplish things than most my age, call it being distracted or just having too many things I enjoy focusing my time on either way that is that it is. I am at a point where I know what I need to do more or less, and I have my mind set on accomplishing it. For my own personal records (and for this site at a later date) I will be taking a current photo of my weight, but at this time I am not comfortable sharing it. The mirror alone can be my everyday motivator to put in all the work I need to. So here is, my first challenge (if I am doing anything incorrectly I'll say so). Challenge Main Quest: Drastically reduce % body fat from 25% to 20-15% at bare minimum. Specific Goal 1: Turn fitness into an everyday habit that I not only do but want to do. Specific Goal 2: Have a handle on scheduling meal cooking so that I spend the least amount of time as necessary cooking the healthy meals I need to be consuming. Specific 3: Work on correcting my poor posture, developed over years of hunched sitting playing video games. Make an effort to sit an walk correctly everyday until it becomes automatic. Side Quest: Have a 3.5 or higher GPA come midterms. By the end I may even look like this sexy beast Or have his swagger. (if someone can show me a good way to add photos to here in specific places feel free to tell me how!) -Joey