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Those rosy roses... Challenge two! January's challenge did not end in ashes of disaster, but it definitely laid a foundation that I want to start building on this challenge. My new goals are cousins of the ones from before, except with a bigger end game - Lose Weight/Inches. Last month I basically stayed the same two pounds (frustrating) but I know I was eating better, just not moving enough. So this month I'm tentatively adding a weight loss "bonus" to help keep my self from not eating at all - or just eating a snack bag of Cheetos - in an attempt to lose more. Goals! Goal One If I did not make it, I will not eat it. Self explanatory. With the obvious exceptions of precut fruit, coffee, etc., for the next four weeks I will not eat fast food or restaurant food. There aren't any birthdays, holidays or special occasions to throw me off, and even valentine's day can be an at-home meal. I also got my boyfriend on board for the whole month, so getting support there. Goal Two Move It. - Average 8k Steps per day in a week. This may be setting the bar a little low, but I do have a desk job.... After a month with my fitbit, I only hit 10k twice, on Saturdays where I cleaned like crazy (a lot of up-and-down the apartment stairs). This is just to get moving, and build up to that 10k in March/April where it'll be nice enough to walk to work. Goal Three Body Weight Workout I'm keeping this one from last challenge, because it was my least successful. BBWW 3x a week, the whole circuit at least twice (instead of just once). Life Goal Keep it Clean - Laundry edition. Last month's goal of keeping the sink clean and clear every night helped immensely. This time around I need to tackle The Neverending Story of Get All the Laundry Done. All laundry will be washed and put away before Sunday night. The game plan for this is to do a load of laundry each night during the week (when possible). I might have to finagle this around washing dishes because I have a small water heater, but I'm sure one load and a few dishes shouldn't be an issue, as long as I make sure I don't have a lot of dishes piling up. I'll be back with a grading/tracking system, but just needed to get these vocalized and set!

Week of Jan 17 Goal 1 Get Hydrated Grade - 2.6 (C+) I'm a little disappointed in myself with this. Granted, it was exceptionally busy at work, so I spent all day talking to customers and didn't have as much down time to, yknow, swallow. But I could've made up for it over the weekend, and I dropped the ball. Goal 2 Get Physical Grade - 0 (F) That's right...no workouts not good Goal 3 Get Tasty Grade - 4.0 (A) I'm really surprised that this is still my most successful! I think Blue Apron is helping, knowing that I have food in the fridge to make, or leftovers to eat. I did have one meal that wasn't home made or well-chosen restaurant, and it was both from being worn out at the end of a very long day, and seriously not liking the the meal that I'd made the day before. Both taste and not expecting it to heat up well. Hey, if weight loss is 80% what you put in your mouth, I can at least check this off. Life Goal Keep it Clean Grade - 16/28 Slacking a ltle on this, but keeping up my mantra.... Overall Grade: 2.2 (C-) Last week was going to be rough for a bunch of reasons, and except for working out, I can at least say it wasn't a complete failure...

My first goal - to drink more water - has been easier! I didn't make it part of my goal to not drink anything else, but it's a happy effect that I'm more consciously saying "No" to sodas and alcohol, even on the weekends. My derailments: I touched on this one in my check in, but this week coming is going to be very busy at work, and I'm worried I'll be too tired to cook dinner, or even not have enough time to heat up lunch when we usually order pizza for grab-and-go busy days. I'm mentally prepared, and asked my boyfriend to run interference when I need it, but I'm still worried about old habits dying hard. Also harder is getting to working out three times a week. Again this week is going to wear me out, but even the past two were hard. I'm very bad about finding excuses :-/

Week of Jan 10 Goal 1 Get Hydrated Grade - 3.0 (B ) Not too shabby! This is infinitely helped by the reusable liter water bottle I got this week, straws definitely make it faster. Benefits: although it hasn't cleared my face or helped me lose weight, I can tell that I'm less bloated than I was over the holidays and it looks like I've lost weight, even though the scale tells me differently. Goal 2 Get Physical Grade - 2.0 ( C) Picking up my game as far as working out. Still haven't managed three rotations, but mini-celebration is that I reached 10k steps the other day according to my new fitbit (!!). I've been averaging 8k during the work days (not bad either for an otherwise desk job), and I hit the 10k just by cleaning the apartment. If that's not motivation to clean more... Goal 3 Get Tasty Grade - 4.0 (A) Woot! Just that one lunch with a couple slices of pizza, and doing really well with the dinners and left overs. This week coming is going to be my busiest at work (students back on campus and classes start Tuesday) so I don't know if my lunch plan I have in place will play out, but at least I have one. I made sure to get the boyfriend on board to help keep me on track this week, I know dinners after 10 hour days are hard, but sometimes I just need someone to tell me No out loud, no I can't just run through the drivethru on the way home. High hopes! Life Goal Keep it Clean Grade - 11/28 So far just a couple slip ups, but still going good. This little step is doing what I wanted it to - inspiring me to keep cleaning outside of the kitchen. In fact, I even (finally) took down my christmas tree the other day, even though it was still good-smelling (sigh). Week 2 Mini Challenge Overall Grade: 3.0 (B ) Happy with this week

This week is much much better - Helped along by my investment in a big ole liter water bottle. Yesterday alone I think I drank four liters? It's a good sign that I lost count. I was also able to do more of the BBWW. Last night I got through it twice, and my legs aren't completely killing me today like they did last week. Other than working up to three rotations, I'm really trying to perfect/fix my form. One knee is just screaming at me when I start lunges and I'd hate to cut them out of the work out unless it turns out I just have bad knees. I know there's a lot of chatter on the forums about knees and squats/lunges, so I'll start reading up on them as well. Cleaning was going great till last night, when I totally crashed on the couch right after dinner. Not happy about that, but adjusting to make sure it doesn't happen again. Also need to have a better contingency plan for lunches at work. This week it was just a couple slices of pizza, but I'm still counting it as "fast food", since it was neither healthy nor good tasting (my coworkers have weird pizza topping tastes when left to their own devices). I know this week won't be a failure, so I'm feeling much better

I'm excited this year for my 10 year reunion - not a goal, but a pretty big push to Look My Best, and not just keep the status quo that has been in place for the last five of those years. Also excited to learn what my "thing" will be, the exercise that works for me. Weights, yoga, etc (not running. that was eliminated ages ago), I've never had a thing and I want to one:)

Week of Jan 3 Goal 1 Get Hydrated Grade - 2.4 ( C ) Still working up to the two liters per day and, except for the weekend, had a good run of 1.5 liters/day just at work. Buying a liter bottle today for work, and maybe another one to keep at home, to make things a little bit easier. Success for this goal was that I kept to just water and tea, no soda or alcohol. Woo! Goal 2 Get Physical Grade - 1.0 (F) I don't know if that's entirely fair as I started late, but...excuses excuses. That one BBWW that I did was rough. I made it through alright, better than I remember my absolute first time, but when I went for a second rotation, my legs completely went out on me. I wasn't winded, but my muscles need to remember how to work. I also forgot how last time lunges used to kill my knees, so I'll need to find a way to adjust those. Goal 3 Get Tasty Grade - 2.0 ( C ) All things considered, this isn't bad. There were two meals that were fast food - dinner on my migraine day, and lunch at work on a day we had new student orientation (so lots of running around campus to counteract any extra calories). I'm already prepared for this week with my Blue Apron box (have I mentioned enough that I got a blue apron subscription?) for dinners, and lunches for the first half of this week. Life Goal Keep it Clean Grade - 5/28 Er...dunno how to grade this weekly based off of how I set the goal hah. But, doing pretty well, and I'm noticing how just having an empty sink makes my kitchen look that much better. FlyLady was really onto something haha Week 1 Mini Challenge Overall Grade: 1.8 (F) Eh, that's why there's a bell curve.

@Sam - Hello again! It's been way too long since I did anything rebellion related, but I'm really psyched to get started again I'll have my Weekly check-in/grade (I've decided to do it GPA style) here in a bit!

Sigh. My AU me has been lifting for six months and has just about the most amazing triceps....

(sorry my quote button isn't working..) It actually does! I find myself mentally chanting them throughout the day haha And migraines are the worst - not contagious, have to go to work. Not visually noticeable, have to get out of bed. Ah well, best laid plans...

(Group meeting voice) Hiiii Gabriel! Welcome back! I'm on the same road to recoup'ing. I like that you're making rest day cooking day, I may have to steal that from you haha Hope you do keep up with both posts for double accountability!

Congrats on the Behbeh! That definitely makes the fruit/veggie and cleaning thing more necessary... And I agree with LostOne - either the timer system for 10 minutes a day, or ten items, or just the middle of a room....Cleaning is my goal too, so I've been looking into it a lot haha. Good luck!

Thank you, it's good to be back This is my partial check in, since I started late. Goal 1 - I've been doing great at drinking more water! That doesn't surprise me though, as long as I have a bottle next to me at work, I do ok. Getting to 2 liters has been a little harder. I'm averaging about 1.5, but I'll be getting a liter bottle when I get groceries this weekend, so that'll help. Goal 2 - Haven't done a work out yet had a migraine all day yesterday, so today at LEAST one run through the bbww needs to happen. This is definitely going to be hardest for me, so... pushpushpush Goal 3 - Pretty ok so far. Been doing sandwiches for lunch/dinner, but my first Blue Apron order comes in Saturday so can't wait to do better next week Life goal - haven't cooked much yet so... Doing good! haha, no knives or plates sitting in the sink, but need to start putting everything...y'know...away.

Back in the Rebellion again... After a bumpy second half of 2015 and especially post holidays, I. Am. Ready! Respawn, Revive, Skill points reset to Zero. I'm three months post abdominal surgery, which really knocked me out, but I'm hardly more out of shape than I was before I found NerdFitness a year ago (at least, that's the optimist talking). Either way, I'm taking this one slow and considering it my Level 1, figuring out what my limits are right now, before setting a solid goal (like, Plank for two minutes, run for two miles). I don't know what the end of this month is going to be, so my Goal is to...do stuff. Have a plan, and make the plan a habit. Goal One - Get Hydrated It's dry. It's cold. It's the perfect time to increase H2O. 1 Liter/day = C 1.5 Liters/day = B 2 Liters/day = A Goal Two - Get Physical Let's get.....oh. Wrong Generation. BBWW - One whole rotation minimum 0/week = F 2/week = C 3/week = A Goal Three - Get Tasty I'm cheating and trying out Blue Apron this month/year to help with my grocery issues (not buying, not using, etc) and dinner conundrum. Lunches and weekends are areas that need improvement desperately. Both my wallet and my gut will thank me. 4-7 fast food meals/week = F 2-3 fast food meals/week = C 0-1 fast food meals/week = A Life Goal - Keep It Clean I am one person, in a small apartment, working banker hours. Every room should not look like I have a co-ed crashed at my place 24/7. Clean/Empty Sink Each Night 7-14 days = F 15-21 days = C 21-28 days = A

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