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Sounds like you're doing great so far! How are you feeling with the changes so far? I know I always feel better after sleeping enough and eating right, hope you are reaping the rewards of your effort.

Well I just arrived home so today marks the first day of the challenge for me. Had an on-flight breafast, but managed to plan the rest of my day to not go over my 1500kcal goal. An achievement for me as usually a non-planned meal can mean a whole day given up on for me. Not a studying or run day today, but it's both tomorrow, so I'm pretty excited to get started on those goals too. Goal 3 Total Points: 1.5

This might help if you want to create a character: http://darkfriends.fr/NFGenerator/index.php It explains the points and levelling system too, at 3 weeks in you get your first 10 attributes and go to level 1 then it sorts you into your guild when you hit level 2 at the end of the challenge, so it's not too much to take in all at once. After that you gain 1 level per challenge. You also assign up to 15 attribute points with each of your 3 goals and gain those each time you complete a challenge, depending on how well you think you completed them. So for example you might assign 5 wisdom points to getting enough sleep. If you did it 80% of the time, you might give yourself 4 WIS at the end of the challenge. That's how I think it works anyway! Good luck with your challenge.

Is your overall quest achievable (over a short or long period of time)? Is it reasonable? It will be very difficult, but I think it is reasonable and builds on habits I had already started during my last term at university. The most difficult will be the amount of time I need to study, but I don't really have a choice in that if I want to do well in my finals. Do your 3 quests all build towards your main quest in little ways, or are you taking on too much? Do your quests have sub-quests or is it just one thing to focus on? Indirectly they all build toward my goal. If I want to do well in my studies then I have to look after myself physically, which 2 of my quests are aiming for while the other is a pure study time goal. Each quest is just 1 thing to focus on. Are your main goals realistic? Can you scale them to smaller steps to fit your life better, even if it will make it take a little longer to achieve them? I already thought about this when deciding what to set for my diet goal. As I haven't been able to keep perfectly on track with a 500kcal deficit lately, aiming for any deficit is better than what I am doing now. It will be very hard also for me to focus on working for 8 hours a day but hopefully breaking it down into smaller chunks of work as I had planned will help. Are your goals able to be measured and tracked? What will you use to track them? A points system based on a did I complete my goal or not, detailed in my thread. Should be easy enough! How are you grading your goals? Are they pass/fail (“every dayâ€, “not even once over the six weeksâ€)? Is there a reward for the effort, or are you only grading yourself on whether or not you “lose the weight†or “run the distanceâ€? I reward on the effort not the result to hopefully encourage the habits for the long term What is your plan for continuing/altering/grading those goals if you become ill or injured? Honestly I am not sure, but I can always count a week out if I become particularly ill. For me this is a case of crossing that bridge if I come to it. Did you take into consideration any special occasions (Labour Day, Independence Day, birthdays, anniversaries, etc) that may occur during the challenge? What modifications do you need to build into your goals for those? No special occasions within the next 6 weeks that I need to worry about. Do any of your main goals conflict with each other? Will one goal make it hard to do another? Studying will make it hard to keep up my calorie deficit, but hopefully by leaving the house to study and making my own lunch it will stop me from eating as there won't be anything else available. Do you already have the time in your schedule to actually complete the goals you’ve set? If not, what are you planning to do to make time for them? Diet is just a matter of planning - I have Sunday evenings to order my weekly shopping and have a few hours in the evening to prepare a packed lunch. Studying will take place over 3 daily sessions of 5:30-8:30, 10-1 and 2-4. Running will be between 4-5pm on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Are you trying to build multiple habits, or is all your energy focused on your main quest? I am strengthening three weak habits right now - I already do them, but not very consistently. I'd be lying if I said this challenge won't be difficult, but I am feeling up for it and this is a great time to really kick things up a gear!

As my username suggests, I'm a university student. I had an account here before but I can't remember the details and it's fun to start fresh anyway! I study Accounting and Finance and would really like to get a 1st (I think that's a 4.0 GPA for you Americans out there ). It's going to be pretty tough though so the next month and a half of my life is pretty much going to be dedicated to studying... a lot. Of course looking after myself physically will be important too so I'm going to be making sure to start up the running I was doing before the holidays again. I'm still on holiday out of the country until the weekend, so my challenge will be starting up properly on Monday for me. Anyway, here are my goals for the next 5-6 weeks. An A = 100% stat points, a B = 80% and a C = 60% Goal 1: Study Time I want to be studying for 8 hours a day in preparation for exams. Not all at once though! I'm planning to wake up at 4:30, have an hour to myself then study from 5:30am-8:30. Then hop on the bus and commute to university for a study session from 10am-1pm, have an hour of lunch then study again from 2pm-4pm before coming home. It might seem horribly early, but I much prefer working in the mornings, evenings are for relaxing! A full day of studying is 1 point, with partial days earning partial points. For 5 weeks of 5 days, that's a potential 25 points. A: 22-25 points B: 19-21 points C: 13-18 points Fail: 12 points or under Bonus: >25 points (from studying extra hours or weekends) and I can buy myself one of the Dragon Age 2 DLCs Stats: 5 WIS Goal 2: Fitness Continuing my running from last term, I will aim to run 3 times a week, after my day of studying before I go home. 3 days for 5 weeks means a potential 15 points. A: 14-15 points B: 12-13 points C: 9-11 points Fail: 8 points or under Stats: 5 STA Goal 3: Losing a few pounds Especially after my few weeks of holiday I really want to lose some weight and get back to the <25 BMI range, which means losing about a stone. Not going to happen during this challenge, but my goal will be to eat at a deficit each day. No minimum deficit required to earn my daily point, but aiming for 500kcal. A day of deficit will be 1 point, hitting the 500kcal goal will be 1.5 points. 5 lots of 7 days + 1 extra Sunday is 36 points for a deficit only and 54 available for 500kcal under maintainance acheived. A: 41-54 points B: 35-40.9 points C: 27-34.9 points Fail: 26.9 points or under Stats: 3 CON 1 CHA 1 WIS Mini-Challenge Tally Week 1: +1 WIS Week 2: +1 CHA Week 3: +1 CON