Ciara

Another fellow Skullcrusher here to support you! Bedtime is a tough one, but I believe in you!

Challenge is starting in 2 days! Gotta go grocery shopping today since I won't have time tomorrow....gotta make a meal plan and prep all my food....darn I thought today I could stay in and chill. NOPE! But it's worth it if it means a step closer to success...still I'm feeling lazy this morning xD

I think this is appropriate for the start of a challenge.

Go go go! Subbed to see how you do

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I don't have any music to add. I listen to K-pop and Daft Punk ._. Buuut I can say that I'm here to support you! Go skullcrushers!

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I'm not sure if I should pursue Zevran or Alistair....Alistair already is head over heels for me but I kinda like Zevran more now and I feel bad. But I heard Alistair will leave me in the end anyway and besides Zevran and I are both Dalish rogues so we suit each other but ALISTAIR IS SO DAMN CUTE!!!! Aghhhh. So right now I'm just pursuing them both and in the meantime I'm trying to save the world nbd

GIF giving! Hehehe

I got new glasses! I am so excited that I changed my picture and now you all know what I look like. -shyshy Well I have to say I think the glasses make me look pretty hot so I guess I'm ok with that. Today my trainer kicked my butt as per my request. Here's what we did: Battle rope 4 minutes Battle rope shoulder press 6 reps Battle rope arm circles 6 each way I BENCHED 50 POUNDS AW YISS. 8/8/20 I'm a beast. She was so impressed I pushed out 20 reps on the last set so we're probably going to increase the weight next time. Reverse crunches 12x3 Squats 15x3 Reverse lunges 24x3 40lb row 12x3 4 minutes jumprope 12 lb (I think?) medicine ball toss Step ups 24x2 Swimmer's press 12x2 Bosu ball toe taps 30 seconds Split practice. I'm going to start stretching out my legs more after each workout. If I workout 6x a week that's 6 days of stretching which will get me into a split in no time if I do it right. FOOD. Ugh I was SO HUNGRY at like 4:30 today. I ATE SO MUCH. It was all good food (except for the takeout that I ended up nearly finishing) but it was just so much. Here's what I ate so far. Eggy oatmeal Homemade peanut butter bar Protein shake Chicken with cottage cheese and lettuce wrap Fried rice (I feel so bad about this) Blueberry yogurt (haven't finished it yet, not sure if I want to) That's all I've had so far. It's dinnertime soon but I ate so much after my workout so I might skip dinner or eat later..If I decide to eat I'm just gonna heat up some of the soup I made last weekend. It's all veggie so it will be light and I'll feel good about myself. Gonna play some DA:O later. I haven't played in a while because I don't really know what to do next. I have time to figure it out so I'm gonna do that. Also I am going to work on the blanket I'm knitting for Dad. His birthday was on the 3rd but I wasn't able to finish it by then. Hopefully next week it will be done.

I REALLY want to dance. I used to take salsa lessons but I had to stop....I hate that I stopped. I wanna dance! My school has a ballroom dance team and they have beginner lessons every week. I am going to go next week! It's happening!!! They're like 3 hours long so there's my cardio right there.

Ah! I'm here I promise..totally forgot to follow this thread and the past few days have been just ugh. The hardest part for me is going to be waking up in the morning and preparing myself to succeed. Sometimes I forget to bring food to school so I just eat out, or I'm in a hurry/too lazy to pack my gym clothes so I don't work out. Sometimes I wake up feeling way too depressed to care about myself and I let the day go by without really doing anything beneficial or productive. I make a lot of excuses as to why it's ok that I'm doing or not doing something, which slows down my progress and makes me frustrated and makes me make more excuses and I never see the end of it. I let stress and sadness take over and I lose control of my own life....it's gonna be hard to take charge for myself.

You're right they are and my feet get so cold at night! I could get like 5 pairs of fuzzy socks that would make me so happy.

Wow I haven't posted since Tuesday? Shoot. Ok Wednesday I worked out again. 25lb goblet squat (12x3) 15lb overhead press (forgot the reps) 12.5lb weighted lunge and bicep curl (6/5/4) 65lb row (8x3) some other stuff stretching! my split is less awful than I remembered it to be. yay! Yeah sorry I don't remember the rest of my workout. It was two days ago and yeah. Wednesday's food was good. I stuck 100% to my meal plan and the only deviation was I substituted soup for chicken wrap after my workout for protein. But those things are both on my meal plan so it's ok. Thursday....sucked. Will and I fought heavily Wednesday night and I was up until 2am on the phone with him. I have an 8am class on Thursday and all things considered I'm proud I showed up at all (30 minutes late, not bad). I felt so lifeless for the rest of the day. My food choices suffered. I bought takeout but I could barely eat any of it...I knew it was a bad choice and it didn't taste good and it made me feel sick. Most of it is still sitting in the fridge. I don't know what to do with it. So it's Friday now. Gonna go to class and then see my trainer. I hope she has a really tough workout for me so I can forget the emotional pain I'm experiencing right now. Guys, feeling bad is so exhausting.

I'm new but I think you guys fit right in line with my interests. I'm ready to destroy the skulls of my enemies! (junk food, amotivation, and physical weakness) RAWR!

WHAT IS THIS MAGICAL WORK OF GENIUS??? I love it. Made my day

Hey Katydid! Welcome back~ I'm sorry about your elbows. I crunched my knee and had to take a few weeks off parkour so I feel you on that one Go get those splits! I did splits practice tonight. It's not part of my challenge but maybe it should be in the next one... Subbed!

My first challenge as an Assassin! I feel decidedly un-Assassiny...haven't been keeping up with parkour, don't do bodyweight exercises anymore...Well that's gonna change this challenge! Here we go! Main Quest: If at first you don't succeed, step it up a notch! Continue trying to lose weight, fit into single digit clothes. At the end of my last challenge, I had actually put on a few pounds (I forgot to document my exact weight so I don't know how many it was). I've put on a few more pounds since the end of the challenge, and I'm still squeezing into my pants. I'm going to ramp up my workout and diet habits to hopefully get back under 170 (egad, I've never been here in my life!) and eventually (not this challenge but someday) back into the 140s. Quest 1: Pain is weakness leaving the body. (STR: 3 STA: 3 DEX: 1) Guys, working out is hard. That's why I'm going to step it up from 4 to 6 days a week. I still see my trainer 2x/week, and now I'm putting it upon myself to go to workout 4 additional times. Now, last challenge, that meant do anything- from riding my bike for 30 minutes to shopping for 2 hours. It was all the same to me, because I did something. I know now I can do something, and I want to make that something count towards my goal of losing weight and getting more upper body strength. I also want to incorporate bodyweight workouts back into my life, so here's what I've come up with: Strength workouts 2x/week (including bodyweight) Cardio 3x/week Parkour (strength and cardio) 1x/week A: Follow this plan for 6 days a week B: 5 days a week C: 4 days or fewer a week Side note: I will get that dexterity point only if I go to at least 4 parkour classes out of 6. If I go 3 or under, that point is gone. Quest 2: I want to eat EVERYTHING! (CON: 3) I've been like No-face the past several...years. I just eat when I'm hungry and sometimes when I'm not and I don't stop when I'm full. I want to take control of my diet. I am going to create and post meal plans every Sunday night for the week, and stick to them. I will report everything I ate that day on here and in a handy dandy spreadsheet. If I deviate from the plan, I'll let you know. If I add extra healthy foods to a day or switch meals around, it's still a pass. If I add more than one extra junk per day (coffee, takeout, candy) that day is a fail. More than 2 fails in a week results in a failed week. A: Follow meal plan for 6 weeks B: Follow meal plan for 5 weeks C: Follow meal plan for 4 or fewer weeks Quest 3: In peace, vigilance. (WIS: 3) I have been having some problems regulating my emotions lately..It's been a whirlpool of all sorts of moods and I want to learn some coping mechanisms for when I am in crisis. I am going to journal my mood and sleep every day for the next six weeks so my therapist and I can understand me better. A: Journal 7 days a week B: 6 days a week C: 5 or fewer days a week I also want to start meditating every day for at least 2 minutes. Just need to get more in the habit. No grade for that. Life Quest: Hoard my treasure (CHA: 2) This is the same as last challenge. This time I'm going to give myself points for succeeding. I have a food budget of $60/ week. I want to stick to that budget as best as I can. Things other than food (like the $75 a month I pay for the train pass) are not part of this budget. As a college student, I just eat out wayy too much so this budget is my attempt at reining myself in. Pass: $60 or under per week Fail $61 or over per week What would a challenge be without rewards? Here's what I get if I succeed (these rewards are stacking): A: Membership to a spa. There's a spa in the town I'm moving to. If I get an A, I will buy myself a membership and get a massage! B: New tupperware. I have 3 different sized plastic food containers. I had to borrow more from my mom so I can do adequate meal prep. This reward is dependent on if I get a dorm with a kitchen in the spring (if I don't I'll come up with something else) but I will buy myself some more tupperware so I can continue to succeed in meal prep even away from home. C: Fuzzy socks! My feet get so cold at night. I need moar socks! Measurements and photos: Coming Sunday night! Chest: 36.5 Waist: 31 Belly: 43 Hips: 38.5 Thigh: R: 26 L: 27 Arm: R: L: 13 Edited because it was way too long. I cut a few things out but I'll probably still do them on my own time. Edited again because I decided I'll do cardio 3x a week for now since I hate it so very very much.

Hey! I never really followed you last challenge but I'm gonna be sticking around this time to see how you do. Good luck~

Subbed as usual~ I think you will do excellent as usual. Probably better than this kitty.

Hi guys! I am a new assassin so I just wanted to poke around and introduce myself~

I'm pretty sure I've shared this somewhere before but I'll share it again. My favorite recipe is banana egg oatmeal in the morning. I never eat instant oatmeal anymore- it tastes bad and has a lot of sugar in it. But plain oatmeal is boring, so I dress it up with banana and egg. Here's what you do. Makes one serving. Cook oatmeal on the stove top as per instructions. Mash one ripe banana and whisk one egg in a bowl. When oatmeal is almost done cooking, add in the egg mixture. Cook until egg is done, transfer to a bowl, and enjoy! I add cinnamon and sometimes nuts or honey. I've also added peanut butter, which was less weird than it sounds but still a little weird. It's a really great breakfast that's sweet without added sugar and fills me up for a few hours. Try it!

That's pretty freaking funny. You're a monster, Pacha! Awesome job keeping up with your workouts and diet even if you did break the medicine ball...I do ball slams too and the ball is pretty sturdy so I'm very impressed with you. Also, congrats on the weight milestone! I really want to start deadlifting the bar. My trainer had me do it with dumbbells and well it was a disaster. It's something to work on though

Okay so I didn't post yesterday. Here's what I ate: Oatmeal Grapefruit Peanut butter energy bar (homemade) Beans and rice Apple Stir fry (takeout) 2 caramel coffees And here's today's meals: Oatmeal Hardboiled egg Chicken and cottage cheese wrap Apple Muscle milk 100g chocolate Salmon Carrot and bean soup Bread Milk Bear naked bar I'm doing much better now that I'm on a schedule. Still struggling at night a lot (I ate a lot of bread tonight after dinner) but overall having structured meal times is helping. Workout today was brief. I am emotionally in a bad state and I asked her to go easy on me, and she obliged. 55 lb row (12x3) 25 lb goblet squat (12x3) 10 minutes on elliptical ?lb tricep pulldown (12x3) 10kg kettlebell swings (12x3) Medicine ball squat and overhead press (12x3) Curtsy lunge (6x3) I felt bad asking for a light day but I know it was for the best. I just finished a paper. It seems like I'm writing something every week, ugh. I'm off to bed. Today has been tough.

Yeah takeout makes me sick in general and I haven't even been eating all that clean. I made a meal plan for the week though and did a ton of food prep tonight so my diet is hopefully gonna change. Ok, today's food: Cereal 1 broccoli floret 1 mini muffin 1 apple 2 slices of pizza Salad with olive oil 1 manicotti thing Ice cream with toppings Some bread A peanut energy bar Carrot and bean soup Strawberry yogurt Some chicken More bread It feels like a lot but actually I'm pleased with the quality of my food today. It wasn't total crap, hooray! No workout today.