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I remember I wanted to write something but then I saw Tom Hiddleston and now I can´t remember anything...hmmmm...yes......hmm

Embrace the swimming cap! Look like a weird but yet somehow menacing sea anemone! They even make them in extra-weird:

Thanks! You are se sweetest, seriously. Bah that weekend could´ve easily been the point where I gave up, I FELT IT, and the fact that I didn´t is largely due to the support of all you nice people here.

Wow look at you! So many new good habits! I also have to keep reminding myself over and over that it´s a six week challenge not six days.

I´m gonna guess it´s BOTH that AND Beginner BodyWeight Workout?

Woo can Newbies come as well? I live in Hannover, it´s boring, nobody should ever come here, but I would totally love to visit you anywhere in germany, switzerland or the netherlands. I´m pretty flexible timewise so if you guys decide something I might just join you if that´s okay?

High Five! Bonuspoints for correct use of gif!

Bst of luck to you! I´m doing stronglifts too. Yeah Warriors!

I read through the whole blog this morning! Your recommendations and links are always so on point, I´m super glad you exist and I hope you´re happy with your prograss so far! Thought you might appreciate this comic too, made me laugh

Week One Recap Has it been just one week? It seems way WAY longer. Okay first: What Happened This Weekend: I got super duper drunk fridaynight and hugged everyone. I had a lot of fun wich is unusual because parties and things usually make me nervous and I mostly stand around and feel awkward. Not this time! I talked a lot of shit (but the nice kind) to a lot of people. I don´t remember everything but apparently I yelled at a girl I kind of want to be friends with: "YOUR HAIR MAKES YO LOOK LIKE A LION PLEASE BE MY FRIEND" and now we´re getting coffee. Cool cool. Buuut the next day I was hungover as hell, remembered why I don´t drink all that much, felt embarressed about things I said the night before, got my period, skipped gym and ate a ton of unhealthy things. Especially a ton of bread. Man, since I´ve been so healthy for some weeks I think I notice the effects a wild night and a stupid day have on my system much clearer. My skin is super not okay with me drinking I think. So, I gave myself yesterday to lie in bed and feel some kind of way and eat peanutbutter sandwiches, but today I got back on track. I did a pretty great workout at the gym. First I did Steves whole warmup thing from the blog, except that I can only do three pushups, and with horrible form at that. Super noodle-y arms be damned! Then I went in the weightsection again. So many people there. Most of them did dumbbell exercises and looked at me. I mean I don´t know them but I figure if they have enough energy to talk shit about me they probably don´t push themselves hard enough. I did a set of 5 squats with the empty bar and then added 2.5 kgs so: Squats (22,5 kgs): 5 x 5 I then attempted overhead presses and holy shit they´re no joke at all. My arms are so weak. I could not overhead press just the bar five times in a row. Not at all. My sets went like: Overhead Press (20 kgs): 3- 2- 1- 1- 0 And my arms were shaking and I made weird noises and a silly face. I have to work on that. I felt super helpless. I actually didn´t do exercises to failure that often before in my life. It´s a weird feeling. I mean, I couldn´t do what I wanted to do, but I know for certain that I did exactly what my body is able to do today and that´s pretty cool? Last up was one set of 5 deadlifts with 40 kgs. I did something silly and put the weight on the bar in the rack and then realized that I could not lift that thing up from that height and put it on the floor without probably killing myself or something, so I had to take the weight off, put the damn thing on the floor, weight back on, all under the judging stare of The Mean Dumbbll Crew. I had a super red face. But I did it! Deadlifts(40 kg): 1x 5 The deadlifts felt fine, I even got a look in the mirror and my back was straight and everything, I do think that I´m doing something wrong with the overhead press, my upper back felt weird during and after. Maybe thats partly because I don´t have that much range of motion in my shoulders. I´ll make videos next week and upload them for form check. I also started logging my workouts with fitocracy. Does anyone use that? It´s a cool feeling getting points for working out, it somewhat adds to the whole roleplaying thing. Soo... How am I doing with my goals? Main goal: Getting regular exercise- I did that! Small goal 1: Get started with lifting weights- I did that! And it was terrifying and amazing! This goal is now to stick with my program for the rest of the challenge. Small goal 2: Going to the gym 3-4 times a week - I did that! 4 times! Small goal 3: No bread - Well, I did eat bread on my hungover period crying day. I had to though, otherwise I might´ve killed a man. Six out of seven days is still 85% wich I´m going to count as success. Life- side- mission: Draw everyday- Hell yeah. I wasn´t too busy with work though. We´ll see how I do this week! I hope everyones first week went as great as mine did! I´m already noticing small changes in my body and bigger changes in my mind. Looking forward to the next week! And I appreciate all suggestions for healthy things I can stuff my face with that time of the month because all I can think about is brownies and french fries, so if anyone has ideas, that would make me very Have a great sunday!

Woo cool progression! Have fun in australia. Maybe overhead press a kangaroo. I´m getting all envious of your trainer, she sounds amazing!

Good to know that there a some things left in the world that even terrify mighty twilight, queen of pushups

Congratulations! Thats super amazing!

The guy at the gym did it! I know that they just offer the service to non members too but then you have to pay them Thanks for all the kind words!

The official title for my life quest is now: The path to badassery. It´s crazy I´ve been raised under very weird circumstances and essentially had to be a people pleaser to survive. Realizing that now and starting slowly (very slowly) to develop a real personality instead of taking whatever form my surroundings demand is a pretty damn painful process. Not being able to voice my needs is just another symptom of the underlying problem. Even noticing when I´m treated badly is pretty new to me so it really helped me a lot that you guys backed me on this. I don´t know if there is a limit to how often I can say that you rule. You do though! Haha, I don´t know if you can tell by all my reflective wisdom talking - I just got back from yoga It was great, I´m pretty sore from yesterday especially in my noodle-y arms but it was a chill session, lots of stretching slowly and breathing. I even socialized a bit afterwards and complimented a girl on her tattoos. Since this is going well for me so far I´m now getting over another fear of mine and upload my current pictures. This is how I look like right now. Phew. also still going without bread and slowly getting used to it, still drawing every day, no scanner today again though so you´ll just have to take my word for it.