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Thanks, everyone. I'm going to miss this place, too. To be honest, I've cried most days since I got laid off. Not for the loss of the job, that will end up being. a very good thing, but for the loss of this place and everyone here. This place has been my home for so long, and having something that you built over the last 14 years just... gone... I just can't do it. Me leaving here isn't my choice, and it's been really hard having people act like it is. The company had mass layoffs, I was affected. I wasn't allowed to tell my clients this, I had to lie to them and tell them I was leaving on my own accords. Even my clients that I've had for over 6 years. So even though my clients wanted to continue to work with me, I had to lie to them and tell them I didn't want to work with them anymore. I cried before and after every single video I filmed for them. And I can't tell anyone here the truth, either. I can't talk about my life or anything going on, I haven't been able to in years. The mental turmoil that I've been put through over the last bit to protect NF isn't something I can continue to put myself through. This isn't a healthy place for me. If anyone wants to keep in touch, I'd absolutely love that - my contact info is in my signature. Thank you for being such a big part of my life for so long. It's been one of the greatest joys of my life, and I found the greatest joy of my life here (hi @Rurik Harrgath) , But I need to go.

thank you ❤️❤️❤️ Thanks, Jarric! Thanks - it's not really my choice and I'm very saddened, too. I'll miss this place a lot. Thank you! Once my last few loose ends are cleared up, I don't have any plans of coming here again - but I'd love to keep in touch outside NF sponsored avenues.

Thank you so much <3<3<3 It's definitely been a tough time all around, and I'm going to miss this place terribly. I don’t want anyone to ever think that this place has become a burden on me. It’s the opposite - I love this place with everything I have and have never minded taking on whatever I need to. We also used to have better systems to recruit guild leaders and encourage things like mini challenges and things like that, but over the years that's kind of slowly just gone away as participation has lowered. I’m grieving, and grieving hard, along with being a bit limited in what I can say right now, so if my messages seem short or like I am annoyed, please know that I am just a bit numb right now and it’s not you (or you all collectively, either). But please don't let what's going on with me ruin anything here for you all. Part of the grieving is that I know that all of this (moving on job wise, and probably the forums) is the right next step for me personally, and a long overdue necessary next step, but not being ready to let go of what used to be. My job was magical for a very long time, and it hasn't been for a very long time, and it's not going to magically turn around and be 2015 again. So it goes.

thanks, shaar ❤️ it's been the absolute craziest last few months, and my brain is still spinning like crazy. It honestly doesn't feel true still. . I've been getting more and more back into FB and FB groups lately as it seems like FB isn't actually going anywhere, and it's actually been how I've managed to find most of my local farm connections/animals/etc. There are a few NF Sponsored things: 1) FB group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/NerdFitnessPrime This is free and is open to the public, anyone. 2) NF Rebellion Discord - this is free and public to everyone: https://discord.gg/g8FakBG9 3) Forum Friends Discord (name was recently changed as people were getting confused with the official one, and the name change actually had nothing to do with me leaving :)) - I told NF I would continue to keep this running and that I'd hand it over to them to manage if that changes: https://rebellion.nerdfitness.com/index.php?/discord/invite/general/ I personally will not be in 1 and 2 (but obviously if anyone wants to join and participate there, please do), as those have the same overarching problem that staying here does, but will be in #3.

Hi everyone, As many of you know, my last day at NF was last week, and I've also stepped down as admin here on the forums. I don't have more information for you right now for a big announcement post with all of the info of who will be taking over, but it also appears that there's a lot of anxiety over the future of the forums, so I wanted to say something here. I've left them with everything they need and the challenges should continue along as normal, and nothing should be changing that I know of except that I won't be here. Once a new community manager has been appointed by NF, and everything is sorted, they'll make a bigger post to the entire community introducing themselves. That's it for now. Hope y'alls challenges are going well!

It's so hard, especially since life has so much going on. Sometimes it feels like everyone is super active, and then others, no one. And we tried over the years making the challenges longer or shorter to increase or keep up the excitement over the second half, but it never worked. Shorter felt rushed, longer encouraged dropoffs. I know my interaction on other people's threads started getting less and less when I started coaching. When you're talking to 70-85 people every single day, and helping them with their goals, I found it impossible as an introvert to want to interact more on the forums, I just started spending my time off work not talking to *anyone*, or with animals, and outside. It was just total burnout from my work day from me - and I never expected interaction on my threads when I wasn't interacting a lot, which made it less fun or not as much of a reason to update. "hey havent updated in a week again," gets kind of old to update when I desperately want to be participating more. I do think I plan on leaving the forums after this challenge. @Rurik Harrgath is up to making his own decision, but unfortunately he's seen some of the things that drove me away last year and are forcing me to make my decision now first hand, so it may be a difficult thing to come back to for him as well, but who knows. We were both SO excited about this challenge, and then the wind got taken out from under our sails when i got laid off. I do know I'd love to figure out a way for us to all still keep in touch and maybe even support each other on our goals without the forum format, but I haven't had the brainspace to really figure it out yet.

Thank you, everyone. These last few weeks have honestly been some of the toughest of my life and I've very much just focused on putting my head down and getting things done and focusing on getting everything in order, both personally and getting my clients transferred to their new coaches and getting everything ready for the new community manager here. My last day was Friday and I haven't had much time to really do much else since then, things have been crazy. I will likely be leaving the forums from a personal level as well as an admin level. This is something I'm really struggling with, and would love to figure out the best ways to stay in touch (how do people communicate outside of forums these days? discord? facebook?) and figure out a different way to even help each other hit goals, but to be honest a lot of the reasons why I needed a break last year are still really big reasons, I just decided to overlook them because I missed y'all.

Yeah, we had been working together on a lot of aspects, which is why this decision felt both like a huge surprise and not one at all. The truth is with the new contract, I knew I'd be looking within a year (it had a few terms in it I knew were okay super temporarily, but absolutely not long term), so this works out for me because while it's a surprise, I'm eligible for unemployment and can take some time to figure out what my next steps are and find the RIGHT next position. Definitely a lot of nostalgia here, and you're not wrong, only if you say last year or so it's really been since about 2016. NF is perfectly happy to keep this up and running but there aren't current plans to change things and start pushing a lot of people here. I'm hoping bringing in a new community manager will help here, though I know he'll start with just the basics and getting a feel for things and making sure the challenges are up and running. I won't likely be around here much - but would love it to actually meet up at some point - you are so close it's amazing to me we haven't yet 😆 Thank you so much! I really appreciate that! Nah, y'all aren't little blips, you're an amazing community that I've gotten be best friends and my husband out of. Regardless of if i'm physically here anymore or not, the forums and their influence completely surround every aspect of my life. Not little blips, big blips But also thank you thanks it's been a long 13 (or however many!) years!

It's worse when you're dealing with custom code surrounded by forum software code that CHANGES EVERY TIME THEY DO AN UPDATE. I swear they were just trying to mess with me sometimes! no the forum software just decided to "depreciate" them with an update so I had to move them back! Thankfully the titles were never lost.

Thanks for letting me know! I ran a general update on the forum but that's about all so far, so hopefully the general update fixed it

I can't figure out how to get them back to where they used to be, but hey, this will have to do!

Sorry about that, you should be good to go now. I had tried setting up something to prevent brand new members from creating an account, uploading an advertisement as their profile photo, and never returning to the forums again, and my query didn't work as intended. Let me know if you still have any issues!

Everyone who is an active member now has unlimited storage.

Lots and lots and lots of layoffs going on right now, too, so a lot of people are going to be selling stuff just to make some money. And lots of financial goals in January, too Worth taking up the deal!

hey y'all, first, thanks for the personal support. On a bigger level, I don't actually know the plan for the forums and who will be taking them over. That's not meant to be an alarmist statement at all, but it is the truth right now. There are a lot of moving parts at NF right now, and a lot of things being figured out, and the forums and who from the team will take care of them in my absence is one of those things. The work that I do on the forums has always been on my own personal time, so they're now looking to see where it fits within actual roles on the team as the permissions needed for the updates mean we need for it to be a team member. I can tell you I sent over all of the requirements and list of training sessions I need to hold with my replacement to my team earlier this week, and that I am doing everything in my power to make this be a positive change for the forums, or at least not a negative one. As you can probably tell from the fact that I'm training people and still working with my clients and making sure they are taken care of that NF and I are still on good terms, regardless of the situation, and we would both like to keep it that way. I have expressed the importance of the forums every opportunity I have been given. Lastly, for the discord server that's connected to the forums right now, I actually own that server personally (I paid for the sync on my own and it's on my account, it's not something nf wanted to have to maintain but said I could do on my own), so if anything happened to the forums, I will keep that up and running, it just won't be connected here anymore, so @Heidi - you can of course make your own, but this one isn't going anywhere It's the one thing I DO have actual power over here!

I've lived all over the place and haven't lived anywhere I heard it used often, but I do hear it used a lot in oilder (pre 1930's maybe?) books, especially ones in american literature, though I can't think of an example off the top of my head. I think of it as older english. My understanding is it's "if you will accept this" and is added to soften something if they are unsure of what your response will be, are unsure of what they are providing, or are unsure of if you will accept it", as well as "so to speak". So in this case, agree on the above with women needing to be indirect and inoffensive. It could be that the area you're in uses it a lot more - I found that with all of the areas I've lived in, each had its own unique dialect, especially in the south. The southern I learned to speak in Mississippi is a totally different language than what was spoken in Texas.

Hey y'all - I'm honestly struggling a bit here. These forums have been my life, and in many ways have given me my life (best friends, husband, a job of 13 years if you want to count my year of part time). And I have no idea what the future of them is. And that's scary. Getting laid off (along with many other members of the team) is abrupt and difficult to process, but also moving forward from this job is long overdue and I'm very excited to finally get a break and to focus on some things that I'm excited about again. But moving forward from this place is where I'm really stuck. This place has been my home for so long. Goals feel weird, and I feel almost suspended in this weird limbo of just wanting everything to be done so I can move on, but also feeling like everything is happening so fast. I have so much to do but can't do it yet (like apply for unemployment or health insurance) and I feel like I'm both slammed busy and sitting here waiting. I can say that if I don't continue to come back, it's not because I don't want to, it's because I need to make a clean break, and would love to figure out other ways to stay connected. Goals update: Daily Walk - I'm hitting about 75% here. I need to figure out a better option for these snowstorms/rain and ice storms - I live on a main road, and I have to walk down that road for about 3-4 minutes to be able to get to a side road that is safe to walk on. It's windy, dark, narrow, and every single person on my road's mailbox is in a concrete bucket post because they get hit so much (ours has, too), so it's actually not safe when it is bad weather. That only leaves me really with the option to stomp around the woods, which have been pretty flooded lately so hard to go far. Figuring some things out to make some better paths and add some bridges maybe! Strength - Yeah. I haven't felt up for strength training this week. Truth be told, I didn't go to bed Monday night (well, I did, but I didn't sleep), and ended up just getting up at 415 and went to work and was wide awake till I crashed at 9 and slept for 12 hours straight. I think it was my body's response to the last week and all of the emotions (saying goodbye to clients I've worked with for years is just always so sad). So anyway, my body hasn't really felt up for anything heavy. Gonna aim to get in my next strength workout tomorrow. I have forgotten about the rowing goal until I went to update it, so I'll do that. Schedule wise, we haven't really been doing spellbooks or anything because it seems silly to try to make a schedule work when it's ending in a week. I have been getting up by 8am every morning, except the crazy sleep day I mentioned, and have been awake before the lights turn on (I do that instead of an alarm), so it looks like for the most part my body is adjusting. Other than that, spending lots of time with the animals and lots of time outside dealing with the storm stuff, so those goals are going well!

Sir Huckleberry! He's my 10 month old English Shadow Shepherd Here's the other one: Though he comes out with me less often as he's less brave and significantly smaller (and let's be honest, much less adventurous 😂 ). Though he did go out on the ice today when he probably shouldn't have 😂 Unfortunately all I can really can say right now is that my last day is the 19th. I want to have more to say or to know the answer, so for now I'm just gonna keep focusing on trying to hit my goals each day and next steps and keep going as if everything is normal(ish) ❤️

Very sudden - barely enough time to say goodbye to my clients honestly. It's been a myriad of emotions, to say the least ❤️ One day at a time!

life never sits still, does it? My last day at work is 1/19, and I have a lot to figure out between now and then. It's been crazy, but I have been keeping up with things the best I can. Last week: Daily Walk - hit all days but one. have been counting shoveling yesterday and today as walks also. Strength - trained one day, and then was going to get in a second yesterday but decided to shovel snow for 5k instead. I missed my mid week workout due to the feels. Rowing or yoga at night - yeah, I did great at this the beginning of the week but not the end after I found out the news. I'll add this back. Spellbooks/Schedule - I've actually been doing really well with this, especially considering. Not perfect, but I give myself a B here. Outdoor life: Havent been doing breathing/meditation. Definitely should. break from work with animals - check, this has been easy. get outside - hit this all day but 1, and that was the day the excrement hit the air conditioning. It's funny looking at this last week's pictures - these are 2 days apart 😆 And we'll probably be looking like the first again by the end of the week. Anyway, this week is about regrouping. Still going to try to hit most of my goals here, regardless of everything else. Onward!

Chicken math is science. Also, jokes aside, this is the best image of actually why chicken math is so complicated ive seen 😂 Thank you! I've been having so much fun having babies around the holidays! https://www.instagram.com/p/C1N3mTsAyHP/

Thank you! It does suck, but honestly in the long run will be good I have another 2 weeks to close things up so just working through that. Honestly telling my clients is the hardest part. On a totally unrelated note, there's a big uphill battle i'm fighting right now. I might be recommending this combined with this soon.

Well, I have 11 from the original 18 left (7 were roosters), then a group of 17 from the summer, the 4 russian orloffs, another 2 to replace 2 that died from the group of 17 (originally 19) from the summer because the 2 that died were a specific breed and i cant have just one of that specific breed it would be cruel (actually), then there were the 17 babies for Chick or Treat on Halloween and the 17 babies for the 12 days of Chickmas so if we add that all up I have about 10 chickens.

Alright, it's been a wild week with some hugely unexpected turns of events, but thankfully everything will be okay. Anyway, so far so good on the challenge. Walks have been every morning before work - every day Did deadlifts and pullups Tuesday, next scheduled strength day is friday yoga at night hit all nights but last night, yesterday's unexpected turn of events made me forget about this getting outside - check check check animals - check check check even made a new enclosure for my youngest chickens in my office (they outgrew the brooder!) one of the days. i like this because it lets me sit at the door and talk to them and they get used to people coming from the side and not just from above. spellbooks - has been great, have been following the schedule and doing my best with staying focused given everything going on, and going outside when I need a few minutes. it's been helping!

It's so hard - hopefully you're seeing the increases already like we are? It feels like it gets dark fast, but the days get longer fast, too. Maybe it's just the hope that days are getting longer faster and it feels it, though 😂 Thank you!! Really just meant using all of my normal things that I know that work that I don't always use So for me, that's: -noise cancelling headphones -music with no vocals for the majority of tasks (classical, soundtracks and video game music and different focus soundtracks are my most productive) -use timers throughout the day - I normally time every 5 minutes for basic tasks and 15 for larger tasks. The smaller chunks are a reminder for me to check-in to make sure I'm on task. -work in my office with the door closed -sit/stand (though I need a new treadmill for under my desk, my old one broke :() -phone on other side of room -take my proper medication in the morning -if I just *can't*, get up and take a break and walk outside for a bit -force proper breaks -my own detailed to do list that is so extra and i don't even care because it helps me. That's super cool that they make it in glasses form! I'm in a weird situation where I'm pretty blind and am high risk for retinal stuff (I have blue light blockers in my contacts too which is cool but disqualifies me) so toys like this don't work for me, but I can see where it'd be useful I have one of those lights at my desk and I work from home so I have it on most of the day and it definitely helps. Mine makes all the difference, I even used it when I lived in Texas. It's one of the few things that's survived moving from tx-->va-->mi-->canada-->ma, it just goes in my backpack it's that important 😂