heroine

1/28/2014 -- just updated main post. I haven't given up, just been too distracted to update here ;p still going strong

Hope everyone rocked day one! Stay excited, stay motivated!

Seconding the "you should totally try quidditch" sentiment. Alright nerds, hope everyone's ready to start kicking butt tomorrow!

You should go for it!

@Ray, any sport can seem complicated from the sidelines if you're new to it! Understanding quidditch is kind of like understanding football; you either have to play a lot or watch a lot to fully get what's going on, but once you do it's pretty intuitive

Thanks, guys! Yeah I'm pretty stoked about quidditch, the folks on the teams are really cool and our A team actually almost qualified for the World Cup last semester!

Starting with bodyweight and a little cardio! Also trying to get on the quidditch team, which is actually a pretty intense workout in and of itself at my school. Tackling getting started with my first six-week challenge

becoming a heroine: challenge one: the spring semester grind Yo, nerds! So, midpoint update: At the start of this challenge, this thread was very long and over-complicated and maybe a little over-ambitious. Meaning I forgot that I would actually have a lot of work to do and a lot of friends to catch up with once the semester started. However, I'm pretty stoked with the way my semester has gone so far -- it's currently the start of week three of the semester, and week four of the challenge -- and I'm doing great. I'm not playing quidditch because I realized it would be too big of a time sap, but I am playing three different intramural sports, with one game per sport each week. I'm eating better (still not great, but better) and drinking at least a half-gallon of water a day just out of habit, now. I'm awake by 7:30 every weekday, and usually by 9:30 on the weekends. I'll come back to this later to update more fully, but overall, I'd say I'm kicking ass.

Hi there. It's nice to finally join this awesome community. I've been following the blog for about a year now, but unfortunately I have a horrible habit of Underpants Gnoming, so I've done little more than just absorb information since I started reading. But I recently realized, when I came home from my first semester of college and went on a total blog binge, that I've reached the point where I have more underpants than I know what to do with and I'd like to start putting them to good use. Okay, enough with the underpants analogy. I won't go too deep into an introduction because I feel that, for now, the person I am is less important than the person I plan to become, and I'll save listing out my goals for the progress-tracking threads. But to put it simply, I am a freshman at a big public university and I feel like an absolute chump now that I've completed my first semester and I have time to reflect on all of the things I did and didn't do over the past few months. I had a lot of grand plans for myself at the beginning of the semester, and I had all the resources available to me to achieve them, but I got caught up in the daily novelties of being a college student and I accomplished almost none of my goals. Don't get me wrong -- the past few months have probably been the best of my life so far, and I wouldn't trade them for anything. But I need to make some changes, so I'm starting here. I am going to begin with my first six-week challenge, with which I'll make small but important changes to my daily habits. I can't wait to get started. So, it's nice to meet you. Let's do this thing.