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Hello rebels. I started a challenge a long time ago, got sidetracked, didn't have time to keep up with posts. I'm not sure I'll have time to keep up with posts this time either, but I thought I'd give it a try. If I finish this challenge I want to join the Druids and be a dirty happy hippie. Here goes. Main Quest: Get back down to 150lbs. Challenges: 1. Water!! Drink 100 oz of water each day 2. YOGA! Do yoga for 1 hour each day, either in a class or by myself 3. Food. Stick to a low-carb diet. I've decided I'm gonna try Tim Ferriss's idea, because he's awesome and I'd like to be awesome as well. Buy his book. It's worth it, it's full of science, and it reads like it was written by a real-life Tony Stark (which he is). Side quest: Apply for 5 internships. I need to get one before I graduate, which is coming up in December... eeep. Good luck to all of you!!

Guys, thank you so much! Gotta say I was hesitant to post admitting my weakness, usually I just hold it in and beat myself up. Samanmoran, I'm gonna look that book up right now. You hit it dead on! I am such a perfectionist and procrastinator! Can't count the number of times I've abandoned projects because one thing didn't go just right, or skipped a class because I was a minute late. Update, as per request: Worked out this morning. It is embarrassing how easy it was to just do it. I mean, the workout wasn't easy, which is good, but I expected it to be a huge mental battle to make myself get out of bed. I expect your support motivated me a bunch. Lessons Learned 1. If you're in the heat of battle and you're dying, don't stand there feeling bad while your health bar shrinks to nothing. Chat your party's healer and yell HELP ME PLZ DYING HERE - because even the strongest tanks can't do it alone. 2. Quitting altogether because you missed a day or two is like throwing Assassin's Creed in the trash because you slipped off a viewpoint and desynch'd. Failure sucks, but not so bad that you can't climb the tower again. Plus, that's like 60 bucks.

Haha this is sooo familiar! GET OUT OF MY HEAD, SAMANMORAN! Good job though, I know how hard it can be to get past perfectionistic hangups!

Hey guys. So... I didn't fall off the wagon... I jumped. Here's how it goes for me, every, single, time. Me: Maybe I'll just... not work out today. No big deal, right? I'll do it tomorrow. Yeah. I can do that. And then I don't. And then I don't again. And then I kinda think about trying to get back on track, and then... Me: FUCK THIS I WANT CHEETOS. AND OREOS. AND ICE CREAM. I WANT THEM ALL AT THE SAME TIME IN AN UNHOLY JUNKFOOD SALAD. And before I know it, two weeks have gone by and I've made zero progress toward my goal, spending all my time playing Assassin's Creed (still on Brotherhood; slowpoke, I know, I'm ashamed) and nomming junk food until I wake up one day surrounded by candy wrappers and feel like a pile of shit. That shitpile feeling is what gets me! Does anybody else get that? Like, this overwhelming cringey guilt when you let yourself down, or don't stick with a goal, that's so yucky you don't even want to think about trying again? How do you deal with that? --- So starting tomorrow I'm trying again, but I don't have the same magic oomph of motivation that I did when I started. This initial failure is hanging over my head and making me feel defeated. ADVICE STRONGLY DESIRED. Samanmoran, you're the best, it means so much that someone noticed I disappeared. Here's to round two.

Day 8 A Brief Hiatus Class was cancelled today. Stayed in bed till noon. Then played Assassin's Creed all afternoon. Still playing. Awesome way to waste time. Report Fs. Fs everywhere. Look at all the Fs I give. Seriously though, will be back on tomorrow. Also need to buy groceries. Like, need. Sea chanty.

Thank you all for your comments! It motivates me so much to know people are actually reading this crap! Day 7 The Mysterious Disappearance Sorry I didn't post yesterday, guys! I was just so tired after work (got home at 1am), and then my drunk friend called me at 1:30 needing a ride somewhere, and, well, y'know. One thing leads to another, and by the time I got to bed it was 3am and I'd eaten buttered noodles and chocolate cake. To be fair, my mom made it, and it is a soft cloud of miracles and coconut frosting. Back on the horse today, though! Had bacon and eggs for breakfast, chips and salsa and egg salad for lunch, and beef and veggie fajitas for dinner. Currently enjoying a glass of cabernet after a long shift in ridiculous shoes (they were a great choice aesthetically, but lower my stamina by like 10 points. Don't you hate it when the cool-looking armor does that shit?). TL;DR: Yesterday was a bust diet-wise, but today went really well. Report Diet: A Workout: n/a, rest day Water: A Pretty excited to work out tomorrow. That's weird to type, but it's true. Song of the day: Fun. - Some Nights

Day 5 The Night Watch Sorry for super late post. I work at a liquor store, so some nights I get off work at 12:30. Since I've been trying to get to bed by 11pm as my side-quest (I'm not counting nights that I work since... well... I have to work), I'm pretty sleepy at the moment. The song I couldn't not dance to today was Flo Rida - Good Feeling Report 100 oz of water: B I kinda forgot about water halfway through the day since I started drinking cream soda and chocolate milk and... oh god I love cheat day. It's remarkable how dehydrated you end up getting when you drink calories instead of water. Currently chugging that sweet H2O. Work out for 20+ minutes: A Today's workout went really smoothly, which was a surprise. I definitely had moments where I had to stop and rest, but there wasn't a point where I felt like I was depressingly unable to do it. So... progress? Stick to the Slow-Carb diet: n/a, cheat day Oh man pizza was nice. And soda. And ice cream... and cereal... and so forth. The point of cheat day (which I have nicknamed 'Fat Kid Friday') in the context of the 4-Hour Body diet is to cram in as much food as you possibly can. This is liberating, and gives your metabolism an important challenge to keep it from slowing down, but I've found it has the added bonus of making me kinda sick of junk food by the end of the day. Having been on this diet a few times, I know that tomorrow morning I'm not going to wake up wanting a Belgian waffle covered beer-batterd chicken and ice cream and chocolate and donuts and diabeetus. I'm gonna want a damn salad, because the idea of eating any more sugar or saturated fat kinda makes me gag. It's super effective.

Day 4 The middle of the end of the beginning Today, in reflecting on my eating habits, I've resolved to do better next week. Way too much convenience-store snacking happened, not enough pre-planned salad and stew and fajitas and so forth. To me, food is like sex. You should not have it because it's convenient, you should have it because it's good. You should also have it with an attractive nerd, whenever possible. Today's workout song: The Guess Who - No Sugar Tonight Report 100 oz of water: B (still have like 15 oz in a bottle by my bed, we'll work on that while I read GoT) Work out for 20+ minutes: n/a, rest day (realized it doesn't make mathematical sense to give myself an A on rest days) Stick to the Slow-Carb diet: D Ice cream. That happened. BUT - tomorrow is cheat day! WOOHOO FAT KID FRIDAY!

Day 3 The beginning of the end of the beginning I was bushed today, not sure why. Came home at like 4pm and took a long nap. Unsure if that's me adjusting to working out, or if I'm getting sick. Either way, I try to sleep when my body tells me to sleep. Today's Battlecry: Avicii - Wake Me Up Report 100 oz of water: A Work out for 20+ minutes: A Freaking Nike Training Club, man. Rivers of sweat. Stick to the Slow-Carb diet: B+ Today went really well diet-wise... chocolate did happen at one point. Gonna try and cut that completely next week.

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- interim post - Guys. I just did another one of the workouts from the NTC app, and holy sh*t. My whole world hurts. It's awesome. Also, I'm down to 156 lbs! Have a smoothie recipe. Avocado Milkshake of Plentiful Stamina (Cause it's green and proteiny) 3-5 ice cubes 1/2 ripe avocado 1/2 cup baby spinach 1 scoop vanilla whey protein powder (or whatever you use) 1 cup milk of your choice (I like soymilk) pinch of nutmeg pinch of cinnamon wee dollop of honey Blend until it stops screaming. Drink through a straw like the blood of your enemies.

Day 2 A hurried message Super quick post today, because it's past my bedtime and I am Le Tired. Art school is EATING MY LIFE. Song du jour: Dropkick Murphys - Shipping Up to Boston Report 100 oz of water: A Work out for 20+ minutes: A (n/a, rest day) Stick to the Slow-Carb diet: C While most of what I ate was technically within the rules, I pretty much just munched snacks all day without stopping. I also had way too many chocolate covered almonds. I went grocery shopping, though, so tomorrow shall be better!

Day 1 First Blood Getting through a day of a new diet-exercise regime is just like killing your first beastie in an MMO. It will not kill you, unless you're doing it completely wrong. However, it is the most accomplished you will ever feel after such a small achievement. You'll kill a hundred thousand other monsters that are bigger, stronger and cooler looking, but none of them will feel as sweet as watching that first skeever keel over. Day one VANQUISHED! Report 100 oz of water: A Work out for 20+ minutes: A Today I chose to do a circuit training session from the Nike Training Club app. It kicked my ass. Aside: I love the shit out of this app. Go get it. Stick to the Slow-Carb diet: B I had two fun-size candy bars... but still a success. Your battle hymn of the day: Fall Out Boy - I Don't Care

So I've started a battle log thread. I benefit a lot from positive feedback and a sense of accountability (like most people), but I think a daily synopsis of my calorie intake and run times is kinda dry to read. So, I'm going to try and make it entertaining - I'll post a battle hymn of the day, a song that will hopefully help you guys get PUMPED (RAAAWR YEAAAH), and possibly other fun things. Follow if you like. Guys, thanks again for all the really supportive replies! I'm gonna try to follow you all and return the positive feedback, but I'm a busy lady, so for now, blanket statement: YOU'RE ALL RUGGED BADASSES AND YOU'RE GONNA KILL IT! Schulace out.

Day 0 It is the eve of battle. Sometimes you have to quit preparing; quit lacing up your battle-boots, quit rearranging your spells on your hotkey bar, quit collecting health potions, quit obsessing over whether you're perfectly ready to fight the boss in the most efficient way possible. Sometimes you have to Leroy Jenkins your way into peril. Guys, I'm fucking excited. Battle Hymn of the day: Bastille - Pompeii For full challenge post click link in sig.