Dianakdrury

Once a week the party gets attacked by a wandering monster we need to defeat. In this case it is spiderlings. You need to do 4 push up per miles you are from the tavern. Easier moderations count for .5 and harder for 2. In my case I am 18 miles from the tavern. 18×4=72. I am still on my knees for pushups therefor 72×2=144. I will need to do 144 push ups before the end of Wednesday US time. Sent from my SM-G900I using Tapatalk

Lucky you. Since I am still on my knees and I have 144 to do when I get home. Did I mention my knee is still bruised from indoor soccer? *determined face*Sent from my SM-G900I using Tapatalk

Exactly. I was finding that Sunday nights were my 'big dinner' so when I was weighing myself on Mondays it was skewing the results and I wasn't seeing the real impact of my work. During the week. At least this way I get a better snapshot.Sent from my SM-G900I using Tapatalk

It might be water weight. I've noticed my weight fluctuates about 1kg each day. because of this I decided for this challenge to weigh myself everyday - just get an idea of the fluctuations and just count Mondays as this is what I really weigh days.Sent from my SM-G900I using Tapatalk

Yeah I leave my coffee to percolate while I do make up. Pop it in travel mug and out the door.Sent from my SM-G900I using Tapatalk

I just have a really simple plunger - but I also drink my coffee black because I'm lazy.Sent from my SM-G900I using Tapatalk

I plan to try fix it up at lunch time. There is a way of getting it to say other words but I haven't done one like that at lunch time. I'll add one for the wandering monster as well once I take a look at what we've done. Now I that I work in real accounting I should probably know these things.Sent from my SM-G900I using Tapatalk

I got trickry with the spread sheet trying to give up a pass/motivational message on the front page but my computer was annoying me and I got as far as <25 = False and >25 = True. Feel free to expand from my cells to yours. I'll try fix it over lunch.

So after an early week groin injury I got into the gym today after work. Feels so sore but in a good way. Sent from my SM-G900I using Tapatalk

Its the best. I was limping and wearing compression pants for 2 days after but it was so worth it. Sent from my SM-G900I using Tapatalk

As with above try coffee or if you need cold caffeine (people in my office drink Coke Zero by the litre) maybe an Ice Latte which is just a latte with cold milk over ice. My coach swears by it in summer. Sent from my SM-G900I using Tapatalk

There's an event in Australia called Stadium Stomp where you climb all the stairs in a massive sports stadium. In my city it is a 100,000 seater. I did it last year (couldn't this year because of a rescheduled soccer game). 7,343 stairs. I recommend trying on if there is one where you live. Never felt so awesome.Sent from my SM-G900I using Tapatalk

A quick addendum to this: last challenge I weighed myself once a week on Mondays. For this challenge I am going to weigh myself at least every second day but only the Monday Measurement counts to my goal. I just want a bit of an idea as to how I fluctuate during the week. Sent from my SM-G900I using Tapatalk

That is a mega spreadsheet!. Sent from my SM-G900I using Tapatalk

That's usually what I play in MMOs... here I'm your friendly psychopathic Assassin.Sent from my SM-G900I using Tapatalk

Meesa finds the basics (Heads and Shoulders, Knees and Toes) [Level 7] So after all the things that happened through the last 2 challenges I have a new job. I am midway through my first week (which is in the challenge break week) and I want to start right to continue well. 2 things that are important to not is that I am starting a bit over again and that means a pretty decent pay cut until at least June; and although the hours are technically 830-5 it is expected that you work overtime to get your work done (as such they have a policy one Friday a month if you've worked ~15 minutes overtime every other day that month it is a half day). But I don't mind overtime if I actually have work to do. I am more about getting the work done. As such I'm having a bit of a reset. In my last challenge I did pretty much everything I wanted but without having a proper schedule my eating was a bit all over the place and I was falling back into bad habits. Now I am hoping to start my new job with good habits so I can continue them. I will be focusing on 4 Areas Heads and Shoulder, Knees and Toes (my metaphor is a stretch but go with me) Heads: I will get my head screwed on straight and eating well to give me fuel and fire. I will be going with my same sort of eating plan for now Breakfast ~ 630 Snack ~ 1045 Lunch ~ 1300 Snack ~ 1545 Snack ~ 1800 Dinner ~ 2000 Shoulders: I will lose the weight I planned for in the last challenge to "Lessen the weight on my shoulders"... go with me on that line. Knees: I will go to the gym 3+ days a week (gym sessions can be replaced with a run if I really want to be outside; but not by a preplanned soccer game where I play in goals). I will continue working on both my Bodyweight Exercises and my Weights exercises. By the end of the challenge I will be able to get off my knees for 5 reps of push ups and/or make the elusive jump to a 50kg squat and as a bonus move up to the next level on my box jump (60cm). Toes: I will clock up at least 15km per week of cardio; this could be running, bike, rower, treadmill, eliptical, or soccer where I play on the pitch. I will not my including any kms clocked for just walking around even though my fitbit will. i really want to focus on actual cardio with intensity so I can start getting ready for the all the running my coach said we will do in pre-season in Jan (kill me now).tl;dr Eat food at the right times Lose the next bunch of weight Hit the gym regularly Get some runs on the board (bad cricket reference).

Challenge Wrap up. So in some ways in actually happy with my challenge but in others I am bitterly disappointed with the results but I know what the issues were. lose 4kg have 4-5 exercise sessions a week and put aside $5 per exercise sessions for something to be decided on reach my steps goal 6/7days a week not spend over my food budget keep my house tidy; focusing kitchen and not throwing my clothes on the floor and making my bed.1. I didn't lose the weight. but I've stayed roughly the same weight. I am really hoping that now I have a job and my eating times will stabilise into a routine and that should help and I won't have the temptation to graze. We seem to be really busy and really hard workers. So as long as I have plenty of snacks that I have brought I should be able to get into the habit of eating those things and eating at specific times and not getting hungry and going to the shops. 2. I think there were 2 weeks that I didn't get the full 4 but some I got 6. it averaged out that I got there in the end. I think knowing now that I am taking quite a bit of a pay cut for my new job that I am changing the $amount per session to $2. But I won't be able to send it until I am below a certain weight (which again is achievable if I eat well) 3. Being at home all the time I wasn't making the step goal. I know now just working too and from work I do about 7kish steps so if I add in a job or a gym session I can easily make 10km a day. My new manager mentioned that now the weather is nice she's going to trying to get a group of us together to got for a walk - so even if that doesn't happen I am going to try do that once I have settled in. 4. My food budget was way too high for normal spending. And I got nowhere near spending it. With my paycut I am hoping to cut the budget to $75 a week (with a $25 a week buffer) but as an average. Some weeks I'll spend more when I buy more ingredients - some weeks less when it's really just topping up on salad stuff. 5. I totally cleaned my house. And now its just going to be maintenance and not letting it get bad again. My house is pretty small so as long as stuff gets put away relatively fast there shouldn't be an issue. In some ways I set my goals too high and in some I set them too low. I think the monetary restrictions that I'm going to have to cop for work should help. I'm also going into a much nicer office in terms of both environment and people. I'm really hoping the new start really helps kickstart everything.

That's fantastic. A bit of schedule and something to put your mind to does wonder for the motivation. Sent from my SM-G900I using Tapatalk

Update for Week 5. These were my goals lose 4kg have 4-5 exercise sessions a week and put aside $5 per exercise sessions for something to be decided on reach my steps goal 6/7days a week not spend over my food budget keep my house tidy; focusing kitchen and not throwing my clothes on the floor and making my bed. 1. Back to losing weight. Yay. I'm not going to make the weight loss for this challenge - I know that and I know where I've gone wrong with food and muscles. I have high hopes for my late December deadline. 2/3. Once again still not hitting the steps; because I lose that incidental stuff. Really going well with exercise; 6ish days a week this week but multiple sessions this week. In some nice news for someone who is not a great runner my running endurance seems to have gone way up. I played a game of indoor soccer on Wednesday and was on the pitch for most of it and just about died running. That was the first game I have ever played on the pitch. Then on Sunday we played a 5aSide game at our home ground (some of the girls from the club and a boyfriend of one of them + our coach). Our coach sent me up mid/forward and made sure I was running a lot. I even scored a few goals. I was definitely not dying. That night I kept for my team then subbed for the top team against the second top team and ran the whole game on pitch and did pretty decently. My tank was definitely empty but I didn't feel like I was dying quite as much. Quite sore today but in a good way. 4. I had some bad food this week and got closer to it. I think very soon I will be dropping the budget quite a bit so that I actually have to think more about what I'm buying. (Looks like junk food, booze, and cafe coffees are going to have to go if I get the job I think I on the salary they might offer; especially if I want to keep all my sports memberships and stuff which is a very important part of my life). 5. Much closer. I just have to go through and vacuum and mop and then my house is in an adult condition - now I just need to keep it that way.

Huge effort! Good luck.Sent from my SM-G900I using Tapatalk

Midweek for week 5. I'm feeling a lot better about things. I've decluttered most of the house; still a bit of cleaning to go but everything has its place. I'm getting closer to hitting my food budget this week. I've eaten out twice and I stocked up on some more expensive summer fruits. Still getting in plenty of exercise sessions. Even though yesterday and today have been spent sat at home watching the phone during business hours. I'm expecting an important phone call and I don't want to be in the middle of a run or something when it happens.

No problem. Send all your minor computer difficulties my way. Sent from my SM-G900I using Tapatalk

You usually have to double tap the cell and then go down to the formula bar to enter the data.At least that's how Sheets work on Android. Sent from my SM-G900I using Tapatalk

So end of week 4 update. These were my goals lose 4kg have 4-5 exercise sessions a week and put aside $5 per exercise sessions for something to be decided on reach my steps goal 6/7days a week not spend over my food budget keep my house tidy; focusing kitchen and not throwing my clothes on the floor and making my bed. 1. In bad news I have put the weight back on. Partly because I've had a couple of big weeks food wise. Everyone has been using the opportunity that I'm out fo work to catch up with me so there's so many bad foods. I've been mostly good at home but snacking and uneven meal times have gotten to me I think. I'm really hopeful on a job interview I had where its bout 90% I'll get it; just have to knock out salary and stuff. It would bring back some structure to my eating times. I'd also be riding my bike to work most days (at least once I settled in) and that's about 5km each way. Hopefully that helps. I did also have a big meal quite late in the night before I weighed myself so that may not have helped. It's also possible I have put muscle on because I'm back doing weight training. I will probably be working mostly on maintenance with the weights and adding in more bodyweight work and cardio now. 2/3. Still going really well with exercise. not quite hitting steps most days. But like I said a few posts again - because I'm not doing that get up and walk to station and work I'm losing a lot of the incidental stuff. 4. Still below food budget each time 5. Not so great but because I have a new sense of immediacy because I may start my next job soon I will hopefully get that all knocked off this week. But it did manage to clean out and reorganise my closet. Fingers crossed for a strong finish.

Midweek update. Took me until today (Friday) morning to get new scales so I'm not going to weigh myself for this week. Food still ok. Still be doing all the catch up and going out so there's been eating out food but its still been good. Under my food budget. Still going on the cleaning because I've been a bit lazy. Still going well on exercises. I had a job interview this morning and I think it went really well. its also nice and close so I could ride my bike without actually getting too much of a sweat up (its professional services so I need to present well).