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Day 3 Today was a day. Fitbit Data Peloton Ride Weight Training Squat (Ascending) 4x4 Deadlift(Ascending)3x5 Superset Monster walk 3x10/side Frog pumps 3x15 Goblet squat 3x15 Superset Standing banded hamstring curls 3x18 KB Windmills 3x8/side Nutrition I did pretty well today with my points, I feel full and happy... and ate some oreos. The important thing is that I logged them and worked them into my day.

Thank you for your support 😔, I just keep beating myself up over it and I know that I need to stop. Normally I crush interviews, this is the first interview that I've ever had where I did poorly.

Today was not a good day. My interview went horribly and now... I feel like a huge pile of sh*t. I took today off because yesterday was leg day and my next workout starts on leg day. I did however take a nice peaceful walk with my dog, we beat the storm yet again and didn't get rained on. I will be posting pics of my ending fitbit stats and my nutrition.

Is this where you live?! Wow, that is absolutely stunning! I need more of THIS in my life.

Day 1 Weighed myself this morning… ugh here it is: SW: 167.6 GW: 145 Today is going to be kind of weird because I’m finishing off last week's exercise routine. But knowing that the challenge week goes from Sunday-Saturday, I will be able to plan accordingly. I went for a walk with my boyfriend and dog today; the weather was absolutely perfect! It was cool and overcast with a slight breeze. The walk took about an hour and I logged 6688 steps (~2.77 miles). Maybe during the next challenge I will try to get 10,000 steps a day, but I’m not worrying about that as much right now because of all the other physical activities that I am doing. Fitbit Data Peloton Ride Weight Training Superset: Monster Walks 2x10/side Hip Thrusts 2x15 @RPE 8-9 OHP (Ascending) 3x3 @85%+ Superset: DB Incline Bench Press 5x8 Chest Supported Row 5x10 Superset: 3-position Cable Curl 2x10/position Tricep Kickback 2x12/side DB Lateral Raise (2s Pause) 2x15 The first workout that is listed is the weightlifting portion, the second one is my Peloton workout, and the third is the walk that I took with my boyfriend and dog. Nutrition I am on weight watchers purple plan, and I have 16 daily points and there are 35 extra points available per week that I can either use or not, it’s up to me. If I go over my daily point value, it subtracts those points from extra weekly points. Today I ate 19 points worth of food, which is fine, I am happy with that. I normally don’t track zero point foods, but I will start tracking them so that everyone can see exactly what I ate. I have a job interview tomorrow! It’s the first one that I’ve scheduled since graduating, so I’m nervous and excited about it. Keep your fingers crossed!

Ugh, I get this so much. My goo phase went from goo to super goo, and I have been stuck in it for a few years. I wish you luck, I just graduated (in December) so I know how tough the end is. You can do this! I know that you can move past the goo.

I love everything that you've posted so far: the setup, the goals that you've chosen to focus on, your timeline, and your walking plan. I believe that you will super smash this challenge! Good luck!

Thank you😭!

Good luck! Consistency is extremely important and one of the toughest parts of life style changes and you can absolutely do it! I'm here to support you!

Good luck with everything! I love this challenge and I'm interested to see the teas that you come up with! Building a solid foundation is so important so HUGE thumbs up to you!

Thank you! I had to build up to doing an hour-ish of each. It took about 1 month to build up to doing that much cardio. I started out doing 20 minutes, then would increase the time by 10 minutes each week. I definitely do an hour of cardio because that is easy to time, but for the weight lifting portion it seems to average out to 45-50 minutes per session. I have been working my ass off and I haven't seen the scale move much ( I may have lost 2 lbs ) in the last 4 months, so I am feeling discouraged but I know that it's tied to my nutrition. I need to remember that I can eat the foods that I want, I just have to do it in moderation and I have to track everything that I eat. I'm excited to be back! I will just need to get in the habit of updating everything at the end of the day and posting it here. Thank you for responding, I appreciate it!

Thank you! I'm excited to be back!

The last time anyone had seen Pyrite was in 2015, she just disappeared, fading from Nerd Fitness society. But now after all of this time, she has returned to Nerd Fitness, stronger mentally and more accomplished but still lacking in one of the most important aspects of her adventure… training. Hello! It’s been awhile… a long while. I didn’t realize how much I missed this community until a few weeks ago when I was looking for a beginners workout for my mom. One of the first entries on Google was from NF and I decided to check it out for shits and giggles. I was blown away by the huge amount of change that has happened to the website and community. Everything is different and so epic! I was browsing my old posts and the nostalgia wave hit me pretty hard. I realized that it was time to rejoin the community and continue to work towards my goal with like minded people who support one another. I had lost 20 lbs, and was working towards losing more, but then the pandemic hit. So like many others, I gained the weight back. I’ve been working on trying to forgive myself because of the tough and disastrous situation we were in, but the mental part has been tough on me too. I have been working out consistently since April, however the scale isn’t showing me the results that I want, so now it’s time to record my doings and see where I can improve (hint: diet). I am still recovering from a weird hip injury; I already went to a physical therapist and was given the “all clear” but I still have to take things slowly and I have to listen to what my body is telling me. Shut up and get to the good stuff... GOALS Nutrition-Using weight watchers and staying within my daily point value. Fitness-Workout 5 days a week; combination of endurance and weight training. Accountability-Using NF to keep myself accountable with my workouts and nutrition. Nutrition: I will be using weight watchers for the nutritional aspect of my goals. I will be on the purple plan, and I have 16 points a day. One of the things that I have found that helps me the most is planning my meals at the start of the day when I am drinking my coffee. There is generally one “big” meal that I can look forward to for the day, so I will put in that meal, and then work with the remaining points that I have for the remaining meals/snacks. I have been paying more attention to what my habits are, and I know that I need to minimize the snacking. Fitness: I was given a Peloton as my college graduation present (I graduated in December 2020 and got the Peloton April 20, 2021), so I am fortunate enough to have it available to use at any point during the day. I have been struggling to find a good balance between riding and doing weight training. Before the pandemic and before the Peloton, I was going to the gym 5 days a week doing 1 hour of cardio and about 1 hour of weight lifting a day. I had been doing this routine for 6 months and absolutely loved it. So I want to get back into that old routine, however I will probably cut the hour of cardio down to half an hour on my Peloton, and then the other half hour will be spent taking my dog on a walk. I will be weight lifting for 4 days a week. Accountability: I plan on posting pics of my daily weight watchers page, my fitbit page, maybe some metrics from my Peloton rides, and my weight training routine. Thank you for reading this, and I wish everyone luck on their journey!

These are some of the most important life lessons that you can learn! (Beaming with pride) The most important thing in meditation is going with the flow of things, and being aware but moving on when a thought comes up is exactly what you're supposed to do. Becoming more than your circumstances is what will make you a stronger person, not only physically, but mentally and emotionally. You did acomplish something great, you are taking control of your life and building the only body you've got! Keep up the great work!

Found you! I love the course that you've laid out for yourself! I'll be following along and cheering you on. I also want to say that I am so proud of you for coming back, it takes a lot to start over at something, but you are a bigger and stronger person for doing so! One more thing:

Biceps & Back Warmup: wide grip lat pull-downs 3 sets x 20 reps Wide grip assisted pull-up machine 3 sets x 8 reps Seated cable rows 3 sets x 12 reps Hyperextensions 3 sets x 10 reps Cable curls 3 sets x 8 reps P.S Legs are KILLING me!!!

Tuesday April 14, 2015 Legs & Butt Warmup wide stance body weight squat: 3 sets x 15 reps Wide stance barbell squat: 5 sets x 15 reps (bar only, no added weight) Stationary lunges: 3 sets x 15 reps (10 lb dumbbells) Deadlifts: (bar only, no added weight) 3 sets x 15 reps Glute kickback: 3 sets x 20 reps

I've never had one of these before, I normally just do the challenges. I feel like I need to sit this challenge out while keeping with my own personal accountability; I just need somewhere to type out my workouts without the challenge looming in my mind. I'm starting a lifting regimen and even though I've done lifting with dumbbells, I've never used the bar before; so this is going to be exciting! I will be adding more to this post as I go on. I've been through a lot, and the more that I use this website, the more that I realize that this is a great place to feel comfortable with who I am. I'm doing this for me; I'm doing this to keep my sanity, to vent my frustrations and anger, and to become the "me" that I want- not the me that others want. On this website I'm competing with no one but myself and its a relief. I feel like I've... taken the slow track in many aspects of my life. I wish that I could have reached this place sooner, but I needed every experience that I've had to make me be the person that I am today, and to prepare myself for the person that I am becoming.

Just finished another leg day workout... how did it come again so quickly??? I had to skip Fridays workout because of time constraints... but I will make it up later (yay exercise)! I also feel like the combination of me skipping postponing Fridays workout, eating WAY to much salty foods (damn you salt & vinegar popchips ), and the workouts getting increasingly more difficult, lead to a CRAZY amount of sweat (sorry about the TMI) and super heavy breathing.<-----but I guess that recent studies have shown that the way you "lose fat" is by exhaling the components that make it up. So I say shoo fat shoo! You have no place here!...... I almost threw up and gave up, but the damn thing about counting down your reps is that you can convince yourself that you are almost done.... I was actually REALLY dizzy for a second. Overall, good workout. Kicked my ass, and I am SOOOOOO glad that it is over. Petefeet: LOL my equilibrium is 90% stressed out about school. I just get excited about it because I feel like I am moving closer to my personal goal (who cares about the stuffy old men who won't accept me into their program anyway!!) So, I'm glad that you realized that I'm a mortal as well I wish that I was doing more field work, so I envy you!!! Thank you for being so kind to me; I'm happy to know that you think that I am a kind person, I try! Bean: Hey! Thanks for the advice! I will have to try that, hopefully that will help, because after those tricep dips, my wrists just want to fall off! And your description was awesome! I knew exactly what you meant-----no need to google! Thanks for all of the encouragement, and thanks for sticking with me! You guys are the best!!!

Just finished the arms circuit for today. I'm still lacking in the wrist strength area... so I need to work on that. Any suggestions? Petefeet- I'm keeping track of my progress with measurements and photos, but I decided to only do before and after stuff... not during. I have some pictures of myself when I was at my highest weight, but they are just casual photos. Thanks for the encouragement about the legs! LOL. I'm getting in shape for so many reasons, the main one being myself (as I've mentioned A BILLION times before...), but I'm also getting in shape so that I can look good when I go to Europe to meet my boyfriends parents. I want to go explore and have fun, this will be my first trip out of the country (I know... it's sad...). I can already tell that this is going to be a slow journey, but I have a year and two months; so I'm going to make the best use of it! On another note, school is getting gross... I'm so mentally exhausted by the end of the day, sometimes I just CAN'T do any more homework. Physics test next week, calc II quiz on Monday, I just remembered that I have another exam in my western civ. II class... ugh... here is my priority list: 1) Physics- I have to go back and rework example problems, write down equations, and then do practice problems for 4 chapters. 2) Do the assigned hw problems for 2 sections, and work on the problem set due Monday. 3) Take the exam (it's online) sometime before next Tuesday... I think? They opened up the summer class schedule and I was so excited, but as I looked for all the classes that I wanted to take, they all had conflicting times with my calc III class! UGH!!! And the one that did work is being taught by the WORST professor EVER!!! So there is no way in hell that I will take that one. *sigh* So it looks like I'm going to be taking Calc III and C++ programing. My boyfriend said that this is a blessing in disguise... So I'm going to believe him and take it easy this summer.

Hi!!! I'm checking in! Yesterday was my first workout of week 9. So before week 9, all of the previous workouts had been along the lines of abs and cardio, or legs and abs blah blah blah. But this week is the first week of "dedicated" workouts. So yesterday... was "legs". I had to substitute two of the legs exercises to ones that I had previously done because I didn't have the equipment (or anything laying about) to do them. My legs are super sore today, and so is my butt. I BETTER HAVE AWESOME LEGS FOR SUMMER!!! I'm trying not to get discouraged though, even though I am seeing progress, I didn't lose as much body fat as I was hoping. But I guess I just have to keep going! I have one year to get into the shape that I want. Tomorrow is another workout day for me, so let's wait and see!

You cook so many amazing meals! I have no idea how you find/make the time to do it, but I think it's awesome!