PixieKitten

Did a massive workout, ate lots of food, did the massive bike ride to water the snakes and come back... It's been a good day. Boyfriend told me a couple of days ago that he doesn't believe I can put the weight on and get fit. Good. It'll be that much sweeter when I prove him wrong. *puts on war paint*

The instructions say to have 400ml of milk/water with 3 scoops. I had 400ml of milk with one and a quarter scoops because I figure those guildlines are for bodybuilder-type guys. I'm only a little girly after all. I don't have a blender or a shake mixer so I had to whisk it with a fork in a measuring jug then sieve it into a mug. Must find a better way of doing that. Anyway, it was good. Super duper filling, thick, and more importantly, tasted good. Pixie is happy, and is now nomming on her 4th meal of the day: salmon, brocolli and carrot!

DAY ONE Whoooo! Starting weight: 50.8kg Today's workout: Squats, 10kg, 6 sets of 5 reps Overhead Presses, 10kg, 6x5 Negative Pullups, 6 x 4 Academy Bodyweight Workout B with both Star Level and Bonus Level: 10 Inverted Rows 20 Lunges 10 Close Grip Pushups 20 Step Ups 10 Reverse Crunches :30 Jump Rope Walking at an Incline for 10 minutes Split Preparation Stretches Just waiting for my protien shake stuff to get here now. Got a text saying it would be delivered today so I can't go anywhere until it gets here.. Because of course, even if I just walk the dog for 15 minutes, that'll be when it arrives! I suppose I will use this time stuck at home to eat everything in my cupboard! Boyfriend robbed my eggs for work. The bastard.

That was so me! I hate waiting for stuff! I kept myself busy making the icing while they were coooking but waiting for them to cool down? Nothing to dooooooooooo! As for Queenie, She must have found a nice big thorn to walk through... She can't quite reach there with her teeth! I'd say it was barbed wire but we don't have any up that high, she she must have found a nice big thorn bush.... Stupid mare. CHALLENGESTARTSTODAYYAY

After much scrubbing, my finger is now normal-coloured. Under the nail is still bright purple though. Whee. Alarm went off at 8am today. I let Hutchy downstairs and thought, 'eh, I can snooze for another half hour.' Apparently I turned the alarm at half 8 off while still asleep and carried on snoozing, because I woke up at half 10. I gues Hutch is getting a treadmill walk today. Not that he minds, it's better than no walk, and he does wag his tail the whole time. So, bunnies fed, tortoise fed, beardies fed, it's 11am and I'm hungry and have no food and need to get ready for work but am hungry and need to put weight on but have no time for food and wah.

Hazard, you're going to like this one. *walks onto yard, sees Queenie has been brought in with the riding school lot* Oh, sweet! Hi Queenie! *walks around the pony blocking view of Queenie's back half* How have you been my gi- Queenie. What is that? Queenie no. Queenie why? Oh look, you did it so bad you hurt yourself. QUEENIE WHY. Right, duct tape and purple spray!! *purple sprays wound* *attempts to duct tape tear* DUCT TAPE DOESNT STICK TO WET RUGS NUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU And that, ladies and gentlerebels, is my morning. I'm wet, I'm annoyed, and I have to sew up my assistant manager's shirt before I get ready for work. Because I'm such a nice person I offered to fix it for him. Also, one of my fingers is purple now. Stupid healing spray.

Today is Hutchy's birthday. Hutch is 6 today! Ish. I think. He's a rescue, so someone picked it for him. He's around this age. Somewhat. HUTCH IS 6 TODAY. And I measured Neo this morning. The green one is from the day I brought him home, the white is this morning. Grow, my minion, grow! Also, I finally got round to baking some gluten free cakes!! I made three different flavours, coconut, honey&lemon, and cherry. Just waiting for them to cool now so I can decorate! Then it's off to work for peole to sample! If they like them, we'll sell them at work and I get some money from it! Whee! Waiting is boring. YAY!

There's an assassin hamster if ever I did see one. Also lurking!

Following for pirates! (I mean you're awesome and everything and your goals are great, but... pirates.)

Whoo! This challenge sounds awesome! Time to get your plank on! I've also get to make more of an effort to be part of this community. I love this place but I struggle to involve myself! I'm starting with YOU, haha! Following!

Thank you Calibre! I'm gonna be kicking ass! =D

First of all, welcome to the girl's problem of having one boob bigger than the other! It's annoying as hell! Second, it could well be the water. carry it with your other hand for a few weeks and see if it makes a difference.

I'm in the academy! As Special Sunda says, It's definitely more for beginners or those needing an extra push. I really needed that extra push. I'm loving it, now that I've found all the quests, I'm going on every day, seeing what I haven't done yet, figuring out what I need to do to be able to achieve the quests I'm not yet capable of, seeing how much XP I can get for each one.. It's like a video game I don't actually suck at! I love it to pieces and would absolutely recommend it!

I just always keep a 1l bottle of water with me. I'll have one while I'm sorting everything out in the morning, one with my lunch, and one after dinner. It got pretty boring at first, so I searched for drinking games to my favourite shows, just replaced the alcohol with water. Jon Snow gets called a bastard? Chug half the bottle! Rick Grimes says Carl's name like 'Coral'? Chug away! The Doctor calls something sexy? Down whatever you've got! Silly, but it made it fun and you don't really realise how much you've drunk after 3 or 4 episodes...

Thank you Hazard! I'll be looking into those! Bought the protien shake mix today so it won't interfere with my saving during the challenge

It's meant to be purple In fact, one of the others appeared today! I've never been so excited over a couple of little flowers before! Today's been nice. The weather's been nice, there have been no mishaps, and I have been super active. I cleaned the bunnies out, then cycled to the stables, broought Queenie in, fed her, gave her the biggest haynet I could find, and cycled home. From there I picked up Hutchy pup and we walked to the pet store to buy dog, lizard and snake food. We walked back, I put everything away, then I cycled once more to the stables. I stayed there for a couple of hours grooming Queenie and letting her eat some more hay, then let her out and cycled home. Then I re-potted the strawberries, and the flowers were graduated into their basket! I had some lunch, then it was back out on the bike again to my little job of looking after my friend's snakes. He left for Norway on Tues and he'll be gone for 3 weeks, then he's back for the weekend to feed them all then going back to Norway for another 3 weeks! I changed all their waters and had a cuddle with one of the ball pythons. I can't handle the rainbow boa at the moment because he's shedding, and the emerald tree pyton and emerald tree boa are both too small for handling, but they're all super cute. Did a little shopping on my way home, then came back and I am so done. Someone feed me , I don't want to move I bought a bodybuilders meal replacement shake thingy for my next challenge. Should be interesting. Maybe my wobbly line will actually have a slightly more consistant incline! I'm super excited for this challenge. I'm gonna kick it's ass. I'm gonna beat some PRs, then by the end of the challenge I'll have beated THOSE PRs, and everyone will have no choice but to bow to my tenacity and awesomeness. I'm gonna lift stuff, I'm gonna push stuff, I'm gonna pull stuff, and I'm gonna kill it. So pumped for this. So pumped.

Pixie Kitten has been shirking her workouts. Pixie Kitten has had a string of illness after illness all year. Pixie Kitten is getting back into it with an all-or-nothing attitude. This challenge, Pixie Kitten is getting STRONG. Main Goal: Beat no less than 4 PRs (18XP, STR+2) Lift everything, get stronger, lift more, work harder. Tasks to achieve this goal: Find a way to make deadlifts heavier without buying anything. (16XP, DEX+2) The original goal was to buy more weights for my barbell, as I've only got 20kg. But I'm dirt broke at the moment, so this'll be an exercise in improvisation. I'm open to suggesstions! =D Increase progressions for all exercises. (16XP, STA+2) Can't get better if you don't increase the work. Increase food intake with protien shakes. (16XP CON+2) Gonna have to compromise on the 'no-spending' thing here. I still really struggle to get enough food in every day, so at least this could help. Sleep in workout clothes so there's no excuse in the morning. (16XP, WIS+2) Makes sense. Being ready to workout as soon as I wake up can only be a good thing. SIDE QUEST: Save £300. (18XP, CHA+2) Like I said, dirt broke. I keep having to dip into my savings. Savings have gone down about £400 since January. Bye bye holiday... So, by the end of this challenge, there will be a jar with £300 in it, that I started saving at the beginning of the challenge. As usual, disney gifs and funny pet stories will provide constant interludes to the sweaty grimy stuff. Because that's just what I do.

Guys. Guys. GUYS. GUYS. LOOOOOOOK. FLOWER!!!!!

Today was good. I enjoyed today. The insides of Queenie's ears are white because she's got mites or flies or something biting her ears... Will she ever catch a break?

Found a £5 note on the floor while walking the dog today. Couldn't see anyone around. Yay free money!! Queenie's looking good today. She's staying in on hay, and I gave her a nice big feed. Weather's a little icky today. On and off raining, but I'm told Queenie doesn't need her big rug back on. It is still kinda warmish. Neo still doesn't have much of an appetite. I'll mix some carrot in with his grass, that might tempt him. I've dug out my bunny ears for tomorrow. S'gonna be fun! It's not gonna be fun. It's gonna be busy as hell and I don't have a fridge in the dessert room and... NOT GONNA GRUMBLE. Bunny ears. Fun. Also, cooked a whole pack of bacon again. Only 9 rashers in it though, so meh. 2 down, 7 to go! Nomnomnomnomnom....

I'm in quite the same predicament as you, and I quickly gave up looking for anything woman-specific. I just got Convict Conditioning. lots of progressions, no accessories or purchases needed, all just stuff you can do by yourself with no equipment. S'good stuff, and I hope I remember enough of it if I somehow end up in jail! Also, this is the first time I've ever seen an argument (of sorts) on NF. Sitting down with popcorn in case they come back.

I don't know how she got that far, apparently she'd only just been turned out when I got there.. I guess four legs go through the mud faster than two! There will always be Queenie pictures at my Battle Log, and I intend to re-visit this challenge when she's back up to weight and we're actually training! She was looking at me then as if to say 'But why am I naked now??' Thank you! =D

Queenie and I had a cuddle today and a walk around the field. There's this ditch with a little stream separating two fields and we jumped over those together. It's fun watching her jump from the ground. I took her progress photos and gave her a carrot and a cuddle, one happy horse. Hutch had a walk to the pet shop where I bought some more locusts for the lizards. Lindir's got a couple of tubs of the smaller ones while Peanut and Pepper shared a tub of the slightly bigger ones. Neo's not eating today. The other day her managed to tip his house over, which had these plastic decorative leaves on top, and I think he ate one or two. I knew it was a bad idea to have them in there, but they help keep the humidity up and I thought they were out of his reach and gah. He did manage to eat 4 rasbarries though so he can't be feeling that bad. The rabbits are having a play in their outdoor run on the lawn. Dad's put it so they can run between that and their house so they can go inside whenever they want.. or if a buzzard flies overhead.. =S I have work in an hour. Manager D called me up to the office as son as I got there yesterday for a chat. Said he knows I'm not happy and wants to try and help work some things out, and we talked about a few things, I was promised a raise, yada yada... It made me feel a lot better. But it's gonna take some time before I think 'ugh, I don't wanna go to work today.' Because ugh, I don't wanna go to work today. I've walked and biked and stomped through mug and jumped over streams and did the Acadamy workout and done some challenge related paperwork(because somehow I make everything need paperwork) and I'm tired. I want to curl up on the sofa reading my book, eat some more food, then stretch out in a nice hot bubble bath that smells of lavender and juniper, then curl up in bed and sleep for a week. But nooooo. It's Easter weekend. I gotta be all Rhianna and work work work work work. grumblegrumblegrumble. At least the weather's nice. And I got to say that I actually won this challenge. AND MY PLANTS ARE GROWING. Nothing's died yet! I may need to re-pot the strawberries, they look a bit crowded, but everything has remained alive! Gonna try and make a change in how much I grumble. I know venting is good but I don't want to always be complaining. So from now on anything grumbly will be in smaller text so it'll be easier for me to see how much I'm grumbling. Aaaand I finally sorted out my photos from Crufts... you know, from two weeks ago... *waits for them all to upload on facebook so she can grab a link* This is taking a while. doo dee doooo... There we go! Big dogs! Little dogs! Famous dogs! (Google Pudsey the dog if you don't know him.. Educate yourself!) AND FLYING FLYBALL FLOOFSIES!

Ok. It is the very last day today. I may have messed up a little. I was a little late to get to the stables, and Yard Owner assumed I wasn't coming and had already fed her, changed her rug and put her back out. Oops. Apologised, promised to let her know when I wasn't going to be going down in the future, and went into the field to find her. I could take her photos in the field, no problem. Apparently she had just been let out so wouldn't have been far away. They forgot who they were talking about. Queenie dearest was in the furthest field she could possible get to. Ah well, at least that bumped my steps up to 10,000! I gave her a carrot and a cuddle, then lead her over to a half-fallen tree so I could trick her into thinking I was tying her up. Obviously I didn't tie her to a tree, that would have been disasterous if something scared her and she tried to run. Made a show of pretending to do it anyway and lo and behold, she didn't walk off. Whee! No, the photos. They're not the same as her start photos, because they're in a field and everything looks different in a field. They're uploading as I type this, along with 700+ photos from Crufts, and this computer is running out of space.. So while I wait, let me justify them. She does not look a whole lot different. She actually looks a little skinnier in one of them, but I'm still counting it as a success. Why? In the first two weeks, she actuall lost a lot more weight. By spending almost ever scrap of my spare time with her making sure she could continuously gorge herself on hay and feed, she managed to get it back in the last two weeks. I stopped riding at the end of week one because I didn't want any of her energy not going into putting weight on. We still worked in the field, either doing voice commands at a slight distance, working on manners while leading, and every now and then I jumped on her when I went to get her in from the field. It was so muddy.. o_o Not sure that really counts as riding, more getting a lift back to the gate. So yeah. While I was riding her, I did work on falling off positions. I got quite good at swinging off so my belly was on the saddle then swinging back up, it was starting to get fun! While a lesson plan simply wasn't necessary once I stopped riding, I still wrote a list of things I wanted to do with her that week, so there was still structure. She definitely ate enough in the last two weeks as she got her weight back up to pretty much her starting weight. I think. It's not actually possible for me to weigh her. I wish I could. I tidied her clip on the back legs, her mud fever is looking much better, I trimmed her tail and the hair on her face is starting to grow back nicely from where I had to cut it off with scissors before teaching her to accept being clipped. She still looks far too skinny, but she has improved. After googling the horse condition scoring sheet, I'd place her at a 3. It's not good, and she looks worse because she's clipped, but the weather's warming and she'll be fit or fat by summer! And I think her butt's a little bigger. CHALLENGE WON! =D

Yeah, I've never wanted to lose weight.. just the wobbly bits! It's just annoying, and I'm not disciplined enough to make anything stick, and blah. I'm just tired. Thanks Ceph. Not-Boyfriend and I went out on Tuesday for the night. Booked a hotel again, because I got a discount coade and it's so much better walking for 5 minutes instead of fumbling for money for a taxi home then having to be quiet because of family and blah. The night went as it always does, mostly fun, with one argument that left one of us in tears and the other threatening to walk away. Then we saw some figurines for a tabletop game, someone made a joke and we were fine. We were so fine, that Not-Boyfriend admitted that I hadn't been Not-Girlfriend for a while. So, now, yes. He is officially Boyfriend! Makes me all happy and giggly and stuff. Only took 6 months but hey. We had a rocky start. I haven't done a single workout this challenge. I'm so disappointed in myself it's unreal. All motivation seems to have fluttered away, leaving only frustration and anger in its wake. Why can't I just do it? Why am I eating this sandwich when I know it'll give me a stomach ache later? Why am I buying this when I know I won't eat it? Why do I feel like I can complain about not changing when I just don't put the work into it? Why am I typing this post when I have to be at work in 35 minutes and I'm still in my dressing gown? Shall I even go to work? I really hate work. It's bringing me down so much I want to cry every time I get ready. Putting on make up feels like putting on war paint. People are actually starting to see a correllation and realising that if I have no make up on you really shouldn't talk to me. I clearly don't care about this job enough to even attempt to look good while I'm there some days. Ugh. I'm unhappy with so many things in my life right now. I'd think about seeing a doctor for depression and anxiety if that didn't involve y'know... seeing a doctor about depression and anxiety. I'm applying for a job at a shop on the other side of town before I get ready. It migh be a couple of miles away, but I'd get paid almost £2 more an hour. So even if they could only give me part time, I'll be getting paid more than my current place. Gotta be worth a try right?