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Thanks! It's unbelievably fun to watch those numbers creep up. I doubt I'll spend too much, but it wouldn't hurt to have a pair of pants I can use when my current pair becomes too loose. Thanks for the advice! Thanks! It was hard to see my brother go again, but the ice cream definitely helped. We had rainbow sherbet in waffle cones. That sounds like a challenge I will have to look into. I'm not quite confident enough to put those into my standard workout just yet, but I'll work on building the power necessary to pull it off. Thanks for the suggestion! Thank you! Thanks, Umodiel! Absolutely! I can't make a habit of it, but it's definitely useful for occasions like that one.

Sorry, everyone! This level of increased hecticness keeps stealing my time. With the start of the fall semester, I feel like I'm constantly running from one task to the next. Even tonight, I have to perform server maintenance at midnight. I've been mostly keeping up with my goals, but haven't had time to log anything here. Here are my stats from last week: Strength Training: 3/3 - A - PERFECT Conditioning / Stretching: 6.5/7 - A Food: 0 failures Organize Bedroom: 7/7 - A - PERFECT Total Stats: Strength Training: 12/12 - A Conditioning / Stretching: 26.5/28 - A Food: 1 failure - A Organize Bedroom: 26/28 - A End of Week Stats: Weight: 190.2 lbs Height: 5' 9" Waist size: 36.5" Neck size: 15" Body fat (using tape measure and Navy calculation): 22% Push-ups: 3 sets of 10 Diamond Push-ups: 10/5/5 Dead-hang chin-up: need to use 65 lbs of counterweight Chin-up (from standing position): 2 reps Training HR: 170 - 175 Notes: I'll respond to everyone's encouraging messages from last week with my next post. I knew that I needed to post this update prior to anything else or I would end up not doing anything immediately. I seriously need to get back into posting here more frequently. Keeping up with everyone really helps me to stay motivated to continue. Thanks for cheering me on!

Thank you! Thanks! That power bowl was actually really good. I doubt I'll pass up the quasarito every time, but it's good to know that I have great-tasting options I can use to eat a bit healthier while still having the enjoyment of eating out with friends. I guess we could all use a few more hours in the day. Thanks for the support! I know I shouldn't beat myself up over missteps, but I still want to strive to do my best. Getting an A on a challenge is what I consider to be my best, and I should be fully capable of pulling it off. The biggest thing is prioritization of time. It's very easy to just tell myself that I'll do something after a couple rounds of a video game or something, but that results in me losing some of the willpower necessary to stick with my goals. I just need to do all my high-priority stuff before I sit down for a gaming session. Thanks, Arya! I want to thank you for taking out time to encourage me, as well. It's because I have awesome friends like you cheering me on that I'm able to maintain my momentum. Thanks, Pixie! I'm hoping that my busy-level drops just a bit, soon. You keep being awesome, too! --- I completed my strength training last Friday, and ended up with another new PR! I can now do a full set of 10 diamond push-ups! I still have a bit to go before I can do 3 full sets (at which point I will increase the difficulty of my workout), but this is another milestone on my quest to power-up. Friday wasn't all epicness, though. I faltered a bit on my conditioning due to an important ice cream party that lasted late into the night. It was necessary though, because I knew it was going to be the last time I would see my younger brother for a while. Yes, this means I also incurred my first food failure. I have to say that it was worth it, though. I'm probably going to miss my little bro since I had just gotten used to having him around again (he had been away for 3 years), but he has to move on with his life. Eating ice cream with him and his wife one last time before they moved away seemed like a good method of parting ways. Bedroom organization has hit a point where I do more time thinking about how to organize things than I do actually organizing them. I guess something like that was inevitable, but it feels like the difficulty of this challenge has dropped a bit since things slowed down. Just as I changed up my food challenge, I may need to alter this one as well. Strength Training: 3/3 - A - PERFECT Conditioning / Stretching: 6.5/7 - A Food: 1 failure Organize Bedroom: 6/7 - B Total Stats: Strength Training: 9/9 - A Conditioning / Stretching: 20/21 - A Food: 1 failure - A Organize Bedroom: 19/21 - A End of Week Stats: Weight: 194.8 lbs Height: 5' 9" Waist size: 37" Body fat (using tape measure and Navy calculation): 25% Push-ups: 3 sets of 10 Diamond Push-ups: 10/5/2 Pull-up Dead-hang chin-up: need to use 65 lbs of counterweight Pull-up Chin-up (from standing position): 2 reps Training HR: Forgot to measure... Notes: I've made some pretty decent improvements over my stats from last week! I broke my records on diamond push-ups, dead-hang chin-ups, and standing chin-ups (I had them confused with pull-ups, before), and my body fat percentage is down! My clothes are starting to feel more loose, so I may have to buy some new ones soon. Progress!

Taking it easy was definitely the right call. Injuries are no fun, and they absolutely do impede progress. Good work paying attention to your body's signals instead of just shoving through it!

Congrats on the hollow hold PR! Looks like you're keeping on track and pushing yourself with this challenge. Keep up the awesomeness!

Hey, Nightwatcher13! Great story so far. I can't wait to read more. The fact that your map's distance was off is great news! Good luck with the home business!

Epic pirate bunny pic is epic. Paddy looks adorable, and it sounds like he could make a good companion for Hutchy. Make sure you think long and hard about it, though. I'm sure you already know this, but there are a lot of variables to consider when adding another dog to your family. You're very familiar with animals, though, so I'm sure you will come to the right decision. That's quite a lengthy flex arm hang! I can barely manage 5 seconds on mine. Congrats!

You'll reach your goal, Pixie. Just keep at it until you get there. I always have a ton of boxes on hand because I order a lot of stuff from the Internet, but I think I need something I can easily seal. I don't need to find those spiders I mentioned lurking in my clothes. Thanks for the congrats! I don't know how much butt-kicking I could actually do, but I wouldn't give up easily. Completely true. This is why I often donate them to my young siblings. --- Strength training continues as normal. A couple more weeks of my workout plan, and I should be ready to move up to the next level. It's still pretty exciting to see exercises that used to be difficult getting easier to perform. I made sure to complete my stretching immediately after my workout so I could kickstart the recovery process. My conditioning for the day consisted of repeating my warm-up routine, jump-rope, rolling, and doing general cardio stuff. Yesterday's lunch was a salad made from organic lettuce, organic baby carrots, and delicious turkey that wasn't expired. I say it was a salad, but I ate it more like roll-ups or paleo tacos. Basically, I take a leaf or two of lettuce, place a slice of meat on it, place 2-3 baby carrots on the meat, and either roll it or fold it. It's delicious, crunchy, and definitely better for me than what I used to eat for lunch. I snacked on celery and guacamole later in the afternoon. I had Taco Bell for supper (more fast food, I know), but I don't feel bad about my decision because I chose to eat a more healthy option from the menu instead of what I usually take. It's hard for me to pass up the quesarito meal, but I opted for a chicken Cantina power bowl with a crunchy taco on the side. The Cantina power bowl is kind of like a salad and consists of white rice, meat (chicken, in this case), beans, avocado, sour cream, lettuce, and pico de gallo. Instead of my usual Mountain Dew, I took a Sobe Lifewater. As for this morning, I have only eaten a banana so far. I got home pretty late last night and was feeling pretty exhausted and stressed. As such, I bypassed organizing my bedroom in favor of getting a few more minutes of sleep. I'm not sure if that was a good or bad decision, but I needed the extra rest for dealing with stuff at work. Weekly Stats: Strength Training: 2/2 - A Conditioning / Stretching: 3/3 - A Food: 0 failures - A Organize Bedroom: 2/3 - F Total Stats: Strength Training: 8/8 - A Conditioning / Stretching: 16.5/17 - A Food: 0 failures - A Organize Bedroom: 15/17 - B Notes: Somewhere along the line, I must have accidentally given myself a point for organizing my bedroom that didn't belong to me. I distinctly remember forgetting to do it one day early on, so I will need to go back through my posts to figure out where I made the error. In any case, my decision last night has dropped me back down to a high B for this goal. I'll have to make sure I don't miss any more points if I want to pull an A out at the end. I must apologize for not keeping up with everyone else's threads. I've been super busy lately and it has been hard to find the time to even update my own. You're all awesome, though, and it's not fair that I haven't been posting on your threads when you continue to encourage me on mine. I hope you all can forgive this wolfman for his failure to prioritize his time better. I will try to check and post in your threads more often. Thanks again for cheering me on, everyone!

Thanks. I still don't like that I gave in and bought the food, but it could have been worse. It didn't smell or taste rotten. I figured that expired meat would smell or taste awful, but this honestly tasted amazing. Maybe the herbs helped preserve the meat or maybe Hormel just underestimated how long it would stay good for. Diamond push-ups are definitely still difficult for me, but I know that I will conquer them if I keep at it. As for McDonalds, I was mostly annoyed with myself for caving and buying a whole meal. I try to avoid fast food most of the time (though Taco Bell is my true weakness), but what I need to work on most of all is downsizing the amounts I eat. SRW is pretty high up in my "favorite video game series" list. I even bought a Famicom just so I could play SRW 2 in its original glory. The first one I bought was Super Robot Taisen Original Generation for GBA, and I played that game to death. I picked up OG2 when I was finally able to find a copy and enjoyed it even more than the first game. Since then, I've collected several games for GBA, PS1, PS2, PSP, and with the addition of SRW Z3, PS Vita. --- No serious strength training yesterday since I have to give my muscles time to rest, but I did manage another milestone: I completed a standing chin-up! I still need about 65 lbs. of counterweight to complete a dead-hang chin-up, but this is more proof that my workouts are building my strength. Since we have a new mini-challenge, I decided to use that for my conditioning. I need to work on my form, but rolling is incredibly fun. I stretched after I was finished, something I probably should have done beforehand... Lunch consisted of a turkey and ham chef salad and a banana. I don't put dressing on my salads because I like to taste the natural flavor of the vegetables. Supper consisted of a hamburger and a small burrito. As planned, I avoided snacks all day long. My breakfast this morning was a banana, and I have also eaten a few baby carrots. Slow and steady progress on bedroom organization. I definitely can't let things pile up in there again once I have the whole place set up. I need to come up with a good way to store my clean clothes since I currently do not have a dresser. Maybe I should buy a couple of storage containers and place them in the closet once it's organized. Strength Training: 1/1 - A Conditioning / Stretching: 2/2 - A Food: 0 failures - A Organize Bedroom: 2/2 - A Total Stats: Strength Training: 7/7 - A Conditioning / Stretching: 15.5/16 - A Food: 0 failures - A Organize Bedroom: 15/16 - A

Rock climbing and water polo sound awesome! Good luck with that conversation. Here's hoping that Heather understands what these things mean to you.

It may have been, but it's too late for that now. I discarded what was left of the package shortly before writing my post. Throwing it out hurt because it really was the meat of my dreams. I've purchased another package of the stuff, and I made sure to check the expiration date this time. I'm looking forward to adding it to my salad. --- I completed my conditioning last night, though I ran out of time and didn't get to do the type of conditioning I wanted to do. Instead, I spent 20 minutes performing random, fast-paced exercises. It raised my heart rate and made me break a sweat, so it must have at least helped. This new food goal is going to take some getting used to. It's still way too easy for me to just throw food into my mouth and gulp it down. I'm making sure I pay attention to how I feel every time I eat so I can make better decisions about what I eat in the future and I'm trying to control my portions as well. Since I didn't get to eat the meat I wanted, I picked up a P3 protein pack and a banana on the way home from work to deal with my hunger. My supper consisted of a small serving of pasta and a hard-boiled egg. It wasn't a perfect day, but I feel good about what I ate. Today, however, has not started quite as well. I left for work early (yay), so my carpool buddy wanted to stop at McDonald's for breakfast (not yay). Food from that place isn't exactly what I consider healthy, but I was hungry for breakfast. I ordered the sausage burrito meal. Although I didn't overeat, I still feel guilty about grabbing a meal from McDonald's. At least the meal had a decent amount of protein. Since I didn't overeat and this wasn't a snack and I made sure to analyze how I felt about eating it, I'm not counting this less-than-good decision as a failure. However, in order to make myself feel better, I'm going to try to avoid all snacks and unhealthy food for the rest of the day and crank up the difficulty level of my conditioning. As for bedroom organizing, there's not really anything interesting to report here. I'm working on organizing my closet, and there is definitely a lot to do there. Strength Training: 1/1 - A Conditioning / Stretching: 1/1 - A Food: 0 failures - A Organize Bedroom: 1/1 - A Total Stats: Strength Training: 7/7 - A Conditioning / Stretching: 14.5/15 - A Food: 0 failures - A Organize Bedroom: 14/15 - A

本当ã«ï¼Ÿï¼I use JapanesePod101, too! There are some great lessons there, though I have a hard time knowing where to start. I've picked up most of my kanji knowledge from a combo of WaniKani and Super Robot Wars, but I have a long way to go until I feel comfortable.

Congrats on a successful Week 2! Also, congrats on doing so much cooking! I've been meaning to cook more of my meals, but it's hard to find the time to do so. Way to go!

Thanks! --- Time for a mini-update! I completed my strength training today and achieved another new PR! I managed to do six diamond push-ups in a row. That's three more than my previous best! I could only do that many on circuit 1 of 3, but it still felt awesome to be able to do it. I'm also getting better at inverted rows. I cannot currently do a full set of ten, but I can tell that it is getting easier to do the ones I am able to complete. In addition to these exercises, my circuit also consisted of lunges, step-ups, reverse crunches, and jumping rope. After the workout, I stretched. The stretching felt pretty good, though I was feeling kind of stressed afterward because I had spent too long on my workout and didn't have much time to eat. Waiting for me back at my desk were my protein shake (26g of delicious protein) and a garden salad. One thing I really like about salad: all that fiber is very filling. Fast forward to about 20 minutes ago, and I'm suddenly feeling hungry again. Need. Moar. PROTEIN! I reach into my fridge and pull out what's left of the Hormel Naturals Basil, Rosemary, and Olive Oil Deli-Sliced Turkey I put on my salad last Friday. It still smells absolutely delicious. I take out 2 slices and start eating it. It tastes as delicious as the meat I occasionally dream about eating. Per my new goal, I contemplate the delicious flavor of this wonderful turkey and consider how they could possibly make it taste this good. Then, I happen to glance at the package again. Prepare or freeze by Jul 09 2014 O.O I literally bought this meat a week ago. I thought for sure I checked the date on the package and that it mentioned sometime in August. Nope. It's expired. Goodbye, delicious meat. *sniff* Strength Training: 1/1 - A Conditioning / Stretching: 0.5/0.5 - A Food: 0 failures - A Organize Bedroom: 0/0 - ERROR Total Stats: Strength Training: 7/7 - A Conditioning / Stretching: 14/14.5 - A Food: 0 failures - A Organize Bedroom: 13/14 - A