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Last year I decided I was going to pick up and move north to live next door to two of my favorite nerds, which meant picking up my life and moving to Madison. I moved at the very end of last year, and then 3 weeks later went on vacation to Australia and New Zealand, just getting back a few weeks ago. Thus, I have been pretty absent on the forum and challenges, and since I have #warriorgoals and #scoutgoals, here I am! I have a tendency of petering out after week two, so this challenge is going to be super simple. Epic Goal #1: Run the Hot Chocolate 15k in October with @Haikoo If there's one example of my going MAD, it's this. I'm really a warrior; I hate cardio. But, I somehow managed to sign up for this quest because the medal is SO COOL. But first, I need to be able to run a 5k. Challenge goal #1: Do couch to 5k program 2 days a week. (Ideally this would be 3, but life happens, so I'm going to make this achievable.) Epic Goal #2: Snatch 30kg and/or Clean & Jerk 40 kg I have found the most amazing gym in Crossfit MADtown. They have a 3 class a week Oly program, and despite being a Crossfit gym, ALL the plates are in kg. Their site even says they are a weightlifting gym with a crossfit problem. YAY. Challenge goal #2: Go to Oly class 2 hours a week. (Ideally this would be 4, but life happens, so I'm going to make this achievable as well) Food Goal: Get the adult to run the show, and not the inner 9 year old child Let's be honest. Running a 15K (or even wogging it) will be so much easier if I drop the fluff. Hitting a BW clean & jerk will also be easier if I have less fluff. However, my inner child doesn't think that far ahead; she thinks OMG GIRL SCOUT COOKIES MUST EAT ALL OF THEM. Challenge goal #3a: Eat Primal for 14 meals out of the week (again, let's keep it simple) Challenge goal #3b: Whenever I have a craving, ask myself: "If one of the nerdlets asked for this, what would I say?" and then DO THAT THING. Or, "Is this really going to be me to my goals? Do we want to end up like mom? What do you REALLY want?" And then do those things. Life Goal: Adulting. There's a lot of other things I need to do, so I'm just going to make a short list: Excavate my basement so I can have the girls over for my birthdayGet WI license and license plateResume bullet journalingmore to come...And thus my CRAZY MAD WHAT THIS MIGHT BE ACHIEVABLE challenge has begun. If you are intrigued and wish to follow this thread, please respond with a GIF below! I love GIFs!

HI THERE I AM NOT SNEAKING INTO THIS THREAD! STOMP STOMP STOMP! YOUR GOALS SOUND GREAT! <3

Good thing your running partner is really, really slow!Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-T707A using Tapatalk

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West siiiide represent. Anyone interested in going to see Deadpool?

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whoops, I totally missed this or I might have dropped by!

I highly recommend the book 'Your money or your life'. You can skim the first hippy dippy chapter, but the rest is pretty awesome.

Those boots, though! Rowwwr.

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I'm moving there at the end of the year, and @haikoo and her hubby live here too.

oh boy! i finally caught up with your thread! xoxo [and hi Raxie!]

Hey all, we now have a Facebook group for the Chicagoland nerds. Feel free to join! www.facebook.com/groups/chicagoNF

It's the 21 day sugar detox. I'm doing level 1 with the energy modification, which allows for a cup of lentils/starches a day (at least). Here's the lowdown:

I think I'd rather have the leash - remembering to put it in an open pendant is sometimes too much for me Etsy. Duh, of course

Ah, I understand that. Then I'd say to embrace the suck. Get the calm app (or similar), and pick a 2 min meditation and just do that daily. When you get antsy or thoughts intrude, I find it best to say ok, I will get to that later. And sometimes that never works and my meditation session is basically a blergh dump. You win some, you lose some. Gradually you keep winning more.

okay, so where would one theoretically get one of these chains? I looked on amazon and, meh.

The date actually went well. We met up at the (free) zoo, and walked around. The zoo closed about an hour after we got there, which was good for me and my anxiety. We walked around a bit after to see the outdoor animals after the buildings closed, and the gorillas put on a great show for us. Here we are, reading about how they rest all the time, and they went ahead and spent 20 minutes or so roughhousing around, beating their chest and all that! The sound is a bit odd - like they have hollow chest plates. Anyway, perhaps there will be a second date, we'll see.

Because he's already starting his disappearing challenge act?

Silence is a muscle. NO ONE is good at it to start out with. So you can only do 10 seconds? Fine. Do 20 seconds the next day. It's never ever perfect, and you will have good days and bad days - mostly bad days at first until your silence muscle develops. Why not treat it like a workout for your brain? You can PR time you're able to sit still (even if your brain keeps chattering), the number of days you can do it, etc. I just don't understand that since "can't" doesn't seem to be a word in your vocabulary anywhere else, that you'd let it defeat you here. <3

ARE YOU EATING WELL TODAY??? <3

Soo, I hate to burst your balloon, but what kind of laws of physics are you using that 20+6+1 = 33? Or, 20+3 = 33?