WingedBeastie

Newly moved to the area. Any locals still lfg?

Back from a long weekend at KnightRealms. Running and jumping around as a polearm user has been amazing. If only the aching would go away lol

Fall down seven get up eight, right

Beastie here! I'm on my millionth respawn it feels like. I've never been particularly active, though now I've joined a nerf league and begun practicing my lightsaber combat again. I've been trying to lose weight and being massively derailed/challenged by life events for a little while. I'm better than I was, but now its time to see if I can progress instead of clinging to my goals for dear life. Current weight: 278 lbs. Current dress size: 22/24 Ultimate Goal right now is to be a 14/16 again My main goal is at this exact moment is to get back on my TEN PUNCH Program and get my diet wrangled on two fronts - portion control and getting rid of gluten. I think I may have been hamstringing myself with all those lofty aspirations. It's not a sprint, it's a marathon.

It's wednesday! Drinking the water has been going well I have a 20 oz one and a 25oz bottle which is better than I have ever gotten, in a long time. I find I don't like fruit flavored water so I'll just keep drinking and adjust. Monday I got heckled in the gym by a stranger, which was oddly ...harrowing. Today I was waylaid by cramps so I did some mild stretching in between moments of pain and looking for a possible different Planet Fitness to go to.

I will be filing my name change after years of shenanigans. THIS MONTH! WOO!

Thanks for checking in everyone. Just a quick update, my insurance is very ...theroretical right now. I got as much as I could afford to avoid being penalized but it's not very good and my copays are not particularly great. My knees have been doing better with mild stretching and walking, so there's that.

... with water instead of starbucks! This month is a lot of small steps, partly so I can finally have a Challenge under my belt and partly the fact that my life goal for this month is a doozy (in the best way). As far as my first week - today (Friday 4/8) is shaping up to be my strongest day since I started my overnight shifts on 3/28. Diet (pick two) Two bottles of water a day. Water is so bland and it takes me forever to drink it. But now since I have two water bottles to carry with me to work, the least I can do is drink those instead of some hyper sugary soda to keep me awake. One coffee mug full of soda a day (about 6 oz). No more soda when the soda in the house is gone. Soda is wonderfully cheap and mixes well with alcohol. So if I'm going to keep enjoying booze in moderation, I shouldn't be loading it with so much empty nothing sugar calories. It's bad enough alone! (side note, make sure to check get drunk not fat for calorie listings) Fitness (pick one) Weights at the Gym MWF. Okay so I mess up the first two days this week because the shift into overnights has been making crash terribly when I get home. I have like three alarms set for when I go home from work now so I don't keep sleeping like the dead and losing the day. Level Up Your Life (Pick One) Hustle hard for half of my filing fee for my name change. Okay so reader's digest version: leaving a bunch of old shit in the past along with my abuser, which includes the name we share. After two years and a bunch of stupidity, I am finally filing this month, so I need to have the money for it. Week one is almost over, but this month is gonna let me get some momentum!

As the weather has finally broken in my area and seasonal affective isn't kicking my ass, I can finally get back to a plan. The gigantic problem here is twofold. I need a plan that may be a little softer on me in the long run, because I have times where I over do it and then can't work out. Which, I'm sure some of you know turns into 'I won't work out'. My knees are terrible right now. I've gotten braces for support when I go on my walks, but I need to know what weight machines or exercises I can do to help build my strength.

Preemptive woot. Going to have the money conversation with fiancé. I've avoided it like the plague because money in a relationship makes me nervous ( mom was basically a selfish asshole and it colored a lot of what I learned of things

On January 11th, I was at 287 and the heaviest I've ever been. It is January 25th. I weigh 275.2 as of yesterday night. Now, that's likely gonna skew because of impending Shark Week but still! Nothing to sniff at.

This is going to be my permanent thread for all things good! So far, three little victories - but important ones. Victory 1: Exercise. Anyone who payed attention to anime over the last year knows about One Punch Man and by extension Saitama. His regimen of 100 squat/push ups/sit-ups and 10k EVERY DAY is what seems to have given him enough strength to defeat any foe with a single punch as well as withstand a lot of stuff that could be charitably described as ' HAX Bullshit'. 100 of anything is daunting, but I realized that I can do 10 of anything. So I've been doing a TEN PUNCH MAN exercise set which is 10 sit-ups/squats/wall push-ups and 1 k(or about 1/2 a mile) daily. I've got a full week under my belt and yesterday I upped the sit-ups to 15! TEN PUUUUUUUUNNNNNCH Victory 2: Diet I moved just recently and in the nearly two weeks I've been settling in, I've discovered that my way to and from work gives me far less opportunity to get junk food or soda. In fact I haven't had soda in all that time. Also I've been taking two camelback bottles to work with me, which is 45 more ounces of water than I used to get. Keeping the momentum moving, I'm researching recipes for the impending snowstorm this weekend. I have a love for really heavy, meaty, fatty things and I have terrible cravings for them in the winter because I hate the cold. I sense a lot of sweet potatoes in my future.

This is genius

Welcome Emily. Another for the disorded eating group (bingeing and restricted eating as well)

CW - discussion of ED Recovery Checking back in. Sleeping has been kind of awful, I've been really stressed out about my impending move and I between that and the plumbing in the house I am currently staying with going haywire, its been hard to relax. I'm coming to the end of my visits with my therapist and as a homework assignment, she wants me to prioritize taking care of myself. So with great effort, I have to address this food thing. I like food. Food is delicious. I have been so poor that I have had to borrow money from friends and fundraise in the internet to get groceries. I've managed to make it two years on my terrible feast or famine habits and I can feel the change in my body. The depression makes it hard to cook, so things are kind of a mess. As it stands, I'm looking at startng a slimfast regimine - it's cheap and I can get into the habit of eating something instead of going from 1200 calorie days to 2500+ days with no balance. A tempory solution, but hopefully i can get my body used to eating at regular times and move on to something aprroximating real food.