NinnyB

I'm all ready to start a new fitness routine, but don't have the room to do it. We are waiting to move into another apartment in our building which is much bigger than our current tiny apartment, but there is just one obstacle that needs to be removed before we can move, and that's FLEAS. The apartment we want to move into was infested with fleas when the previous tenant moved out. The exterminator has been in there twice, and now I have to wait until Tuesday to start the process of vacuuming every day for a week. Then we will see if the fleas are eradicated enough where the apartment is livable. Otherwise the exterminator will have to come in one more time. Then comes the move. THEN I will have plenty of space to start my fitness routine. Now I can just spend that time deciding what my fitness routine will be. I know I want to do some yoga, and want to join the dumbbell division. And I've already started my nutrition transformation. I think I may have already lost a lb. or 2. Respawning is FUN.

I live in the Rutland area, which is South Central Vermont, and am looking for a female accountability buddy within 100 mile radius. I drive for a living anyway, so it would be no big deal to drive to meet them once or twice a month, and then the other times we can talk on the phone or Skype, and email. I am in my late 40's, about 75 lbs overweight, married, kids all grown and moved away, and looking forward to hearing from you.

I am coming up on a year since I joined the Rebellion, and I started out pretty good, but then life got in the way. I have a habit of not finishing what I start, (unless it is a chocolate cookie). Since I joined, the business that I had started last year had really picked up and we got busy. I stopped trying to complete quests and stopped reading blog posts and all other things that would help me in the Academy. One thing I never stopped doing, though, was stay in contact with my Facebook page ladies. I'm glad I did, too, because I can look back and see that I hadn't totally given up, I just stopped doing things the NFR way. I took the reconstruction of the quest system as a sign from (somewhere?) that it was time to start over from scratch. I never rechecked off my old quests, I just decided that I have to do them all over again. I started reading from the beginning, like I'd never read any of it before. I did everything so far that the instructions have said, even creating specific quests of my own in my Epic Quest, and going in every day to record updates. I keep a fitness journal now. Not just what exercises I did or what I ate, but what kind of mood I was in that day, what my pain level was, and anything exciting that happened that day that might affect the success of my real life Epic Quest, including my relationship status with my family and friends, and my overall health. I have fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, and irritable bowel syndrome, and the way they make me feel from day to day really can decide what I get done that day. But I have realized that in the past, I often used these diseases as an excuse as to why I couldn't lose weight and stay in shape. No more! I think what makes it easier this time is that in addition to playing the Nerd Fitness Academy game, I'm playing a game against my alter ego, the one that wants to eat ice cream for breakfast and opt to play on Facebook over taking a morning walk. I am not by nature a competitive person, but the game is against myself, so when I win, I don't have to worry about hurting the feelings of the loser. In fact, I rather want to hurt the feelings of the loser, so maybe they (my alter ego) will decide they don't want to play anymore and go home. While I know I have to lose weight (my doctor's words, not mine) I don't want to treat my NFR journey as a "have to" thing. I want to do this. I am actually finding it fun this time. I like that I can say "you know, I really do want that cookie" and choice of eating that cookie is mine. Instead of saying "I can't eat that cookie", saying "Ha, ha alter ego, I win, I didn't eat the cookie". Score one for Skinny Ninny. (This was my father's nickname for me when I was a child.) So let the games begin!

Guys, I was only kidding (or was I?)

Hi, my name is Linda, I'm 47 years old and I live in Vermont, U.S.A. with my husband. We are both interested in getting healthier so we will qualify to be considered some of the first people that get uploaded when the singularity happens. My husband says he doesn't like being human, and can't wait till he no longer has to be. He has taken years to convince me that "life" will be so much better when we can be immortal. And I was a very hard sell. See, we're both atheists and we aren't worried about missing out on heaven, we think our heaven will be when we can have the infinite knowledge and control of the universe when we upload. But Ray Kurzwiel is constantly giving estimates further and further into the future as to when science will be ready to start uploading. So I need to be as healthy as I can be so I can live long enough to see the age come, so I can essentially "live" forever. I'm overweight and out of shape, and I eat a lot of junk. I'm worried that when it comes time to choose test subjects, they will favor those people who are in great health so they can handle all the work the uploaders will be doing, in addition to the fact that our real bodies will be in limbo for a long time, so they have to be able to preserve well. I want to get healthy because not only do I not want to die young, I don't want to "die" at all.

Hi, my name is Linda, and I'm a 46 year old, 75 lb. overweight gal from Vermont. I am currently in the process of planning a wedding (10 more days, whoohoo) AND just started my own business AND we're moving into our own apartment in 18 days (been staying with my fiance's mom so we could save for the wedding). I haven't actually had a home of my own for a year now, and thus haven't had my own kitchen, living room, dining room or even bathroom since then. I'm looking forward to having all these again. It is at that point that my Nerd Fitness journey will begin. Well, actually it began last month when I joined the academy. I have been reading every article I can get my hands on about it, and have implemented quite a bit of it into my life. But there's so much I haven't been able to do. One is exercise (at least at home, and I can't afford to go to the gym). I had been doing a lot of walking until the heat hit, and then my legs swelled up like sponges, and my doc said I needed to stay off my feet, keep my legs elevated and drink lots of liquid. This happened last summer too, and by September it had stopped and I had a fairly uneventful winter and spring as far as swelling went. Just one of many reasons I hate summer. I'm much more active in the fall and winter. Another thing is decide what will be served for meals. I get to decide 2 times a week, when I do the cooking. My future mother-in-law loves me so much, she is always making amazing meals and treats to show me, even though she tries really hard to feed me stuff that's healthy, it's so good I end up eating way too much and can't stop myself. So starting September 12, I will have my own home. I can exercise in my living room, and keep my fridge stocked with the foods that I want to eat and serve. My fiance likes the same foods I do, so that will help. I'm looking forward to so many things about my new place. I'm keeping a "countdown book", which I write in every day something else I am looking forward to about having my own home. I feel like the business has gotten off the ground, the wedding will be nothing but a memory, and I'll be living in my own home, and then maybe I can re-acquaint myself with the meaning of "normal", and get serious about my health, fitness and lose some weight and just be healthier overall. So that's me. You probably won't see a lot of me in here for the next month, but just know, I'm watching you (and not in a creepy kind of way).