Allycat2407

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I have had to cancel this challenge. Big work project has me working crazy hours. 100+ weeks, at night till 3, then get up at 9. No time for exercising and no energy left to challenge myself. It's slowly getting back to normal right now, but with the holidays coming up this isn't really the best time. I'll still try to eat clean and go exercising maybe once or twice, but I won't start a proper challenge again until the new year.

Project: How to Survive the Holidays CLASSIFIED Today subject Allycat2407 will commence a new 4-week project. This time the goal is not to improve, but to maintain, physical fitness and weight-to-height ratio, all the while still enjoying the holiday season. This project will start on Monday December 5 and will end on Sunday January 1. There will be weekly weigh-ins and measurements on Monday morning, with a final weigh-in and measurement on Monday January 2. During this challenge, the recruit will be working toward the following objectives: Fitness objective #1: Go to the gym twice a week. Anything more is just nice to have. All days of the project are either treat days or strict days. There's no limit to the amount of either. Dietary objective #1: On treat days sugary snacks and/or alcohol are allowed, but only if shared with others. Dietary objective #2: On strict days sugary snacks, alcohol and even hearty snacks are not allowed. If you get really hungry, have a peanut-butter sandwich or a piece of fruit. The subject had this to say about the new regime. The recruit is expected to keep track of weekly progress in this dossier. Signed, Col. S. Claus

To summarize: Fitness objective #1: I went to the gym 7 out of 8 times; the one I missed was due to illness. A- Fitness objective #2: I went swimming 3 out of 4 times. B Fitness objective #3: I used the stationary bike 6 out of 4 times and cycled to the office an additional 1 times. A+ Dietary objective #1: I had 4 out of 4 treat days, but I smuggled a bit near the end. B Level up your life objective #1: I did not manage to kick this habit anymore than I had before. F Level up your life objective #2: I did not manage to further decrease distracting behavior. F My weight went from 84.4 kg (186 lbs) to 83.2 kg (183 lbs) and my waist went from 89.5 cm (35.2 in) to 89.0 cm (35.0 in). All in all, not very happy. My progress seems to have hit a plateau. But hopefully, continuing my gym workouts will help left me across the plateau. For the December challenge, I'll give myself a little more lax goals to incorporate the holidays.

Still swamped with worked, so it went differently than planned. Fitness objective #1: I went to the gym twice. A Fitness objective #2: I did not go swimming. F Fitness objective #3: I did not use the stationary bike; but I did cycle 16.8 km (10.4 miles) and walked 7.5 km (4.7 miles). A Dietary objective #1: I had one treat day, but I had a bit of chocolate on two other days. B- Level up your life objective #1: I did not manage to kick this habit. F Level up your life objective #2: I fell into lots of distracting trappings once again. F Level up your life objective #3: cancelled. My weight increased slightly to 83.2 kg (183 lbs) and my waist also increased to 89.0 cm (35.0 in).

No, it's more of a gradual scale, gut feeling of how well I did, not strictly quantified. With the amount I'm currently working, I'm not really bothered by life goals #1 and 2: I'm just happy if I get the work done. Fitness objective #1: I went to the gym twice. A Fitness objective #2: I went swimming once. A Fitness objective #3: I used the stationary bike once. A Dietary objective #1: I had one treat day, but I had a (tiny) bit of chocolate on another day. A- Level up your life objective #1: I did not manage to kick this habit. F Level up your life objective #2: I fell into lots of distracting trappings once again. F Level up your life objective #3: cancelled. My weight stayed the same 82.9 kg (183 lbs) and my waist also (almost) stayed the same 88.2 cm (34.7 in).

Another bad week. Work's gotten really busy, so I've had to reprioritise. Fitness objective #1: I went to the gym twice. A Fitness objective #2: I went swimming once. A Fitness objective #3: I used the stationary bike three times. A+ Dietary objective #1: I had one treat day. A Level up your life objective #1: I did not manage to kick this habit. F Level up your life objective #2: I fell into lots of distracting trappings once again. F Level up your life objective #3: cancelled. My weight went up 82.9 kg (183 lbs), but my waist continued decreasing to 88.0 cm (34.6 in).

Bad start: I was ill for a few days, so that mucked up my plans. Fitness objective #1: I went to the gym only once. C Fitness objective #2: I went swimming once. A Fitness objective #3: I used the stationary bike twice: doesn't make up for lost gym session, but still good. A+ Dietary objective #1: I had one treat day. A Level up your life objective #1: I did not manage to kick this habit. F Level up your life objective #2: I fell into some distracting trappings once again. D Level up your life objective #3: I did not manage to write anything. F But thanks to illness: my weight went to 82.1 kg (181 lbs) and my waist saw a decrease to 89.0 cm (35.0 in).

Project: Higher, Further, Faster, More CLASSIFIED Today subject Allycat2407 will commence another 4-week phase aimed at improving physical fitness and lowering weight-to-height ratio. This phase of project Higher, Further, Faster, More will start on Monday October 31 and will end on Sunday November 27. There will be weekly weigh-ins and measurements on Monday morning, with a final weigh-in and measurement on Monday November 28. During this challenge, the recruit will be working toward the following objectives: Fitness objective #1: Go to the gym at least twice a week. Fitness objective #2: Go swimming at least once a week. Fitness objective #3: Use the stationary bike at least once a week. Dietary objective #1: Have a treat day with sugary snacks and/or alcohol no more than once a week. Level up your life objective #1: Stop biting nails and rims. Level up your life objective #2: Stop engaging in pointless, distracting activities online (i.e. check Facebook only once a day and do not fall for clickbait). Level up your life objective #3: Write 15,000 words of fiction per week for NaNoWriMo. The subject had this to say about the new regime. The recruit is expected to keep track of weekly progress in this dossier. Signed, Capt. C. Danvers

To summarize: Fitness objective #1: I went to the gym 4 out of 4 times. C Fitness objective #2: I went swimming 3 out of 4 times. B Fitness objective #3: I used the stationary bike 8 out of 4 times and cycled to the office an additional 3 times. A+ Dietary objective #1: I had 1 out of 4 treat days. A+ Level up your life objective #1: I did not manage to kick this habit, but it did get less. D Level up your life objective #2: I managed to cut a significant chuck of distracting behavior. A My weight went from 85.5 kg (188 lbs) to 82.9 kg (183 lbs) and my waist went from 93.5 cm (36.8 in) to 89.7 cm (35.3 in). All in all, I'm very happy with these results.

Final week is done. Good week. Fitness objective #1: I went to the gym once. A Fitness objective #2: I went swimming once. A Fitness objective #3: I used the stationary bike once and went to the office on bike once. A+ Dietary objective #1: I had one treat days. A Level up your life objective #1: I did not manage to fully kick this habit, but it did get a little less again. C Level up your life objective #2: I managed to stop doing almost all distracting things. A- My weight went to 82.9 kg (183 lbs) and my waist saw a decrease to 89.7 cm (35.3 in).

Week 3 is done. Very good week. Fitness objective #1: I went to the gym once. A Fitness objective #2: I went swimming once. A Fitness objective #3: I used the stationary bike four times and went to the office on bike once. A+ Dietary objective #1: I had no treat days. A+ Level up your life objective #1: I did not manage to fully kick this habit, but it did get a little less. D Level up your life objective #2: I managed to stop doing almost all distracting things. A- My weight went to 83.1 kg (183 lbs) and my waist saw a decrease to 90.7 cm (35.7 in). I have no concrete plan for how to stop nail biting. It's a mindset thing. But I managed to decrease the frequency, so hopefully I can work off that.

Another good week. Fitness objective #1: I went to the gym once. A Fitness objective #2: I went swimming once. A Fitness objective #3: I did used the stationary bike once. A Dietary objective #1: I had no treat days. A+ Level up your life objective #1: I did not manage to kick this habit. F Level up your life objective #2: I managed to stop doing most distracting things, but not all. B+ My weight went to 84.0 kg (185 lbs) and my waist saw a decrease to 91.0 cm (35.8 in).

Yup, that's what I did this week. I went swimming on Monday and to the gym on Tuesday: it worked out perfectly!

Good idea, I'm joining too

Thanks! Alas, it's not quite accepted for a man to wear nail polish so I will have to find some other way to kick this habit I'd like to think I made a good start. I went to the gym and the workout was hard but achievable. Unfortunately it did leave me with a lot of soreness in my arms in the next few days. So much so that I couldn't fully stretch my arms, which made swimming impossible. I compensated by cycling twice. As for the distracting habits: I now only check Facebook once a day, which feels fine, it's not really like I'm missing anything. There were still too many other small distractions. It's tricky, they were things that feel semi-useful at the time (like reorganising certain files), but when you think about it really it's just another way to put off work. Fitness objective #1: I went to the gym once. A Fitness objective #2: I did not go swimming. D Fitness objective #3: I did used the stationary bike twice. A+ Dietary objective #1: I had no treat days. A+ Level up your life objective #1: I did not manage to kick this habit. F Level up your life objective #2: I managed to stop doing some distracting things, but not all. B My weight went to 84.9 kg (187 lbs) and my waist saw a decrease to 92.8 cm (36.5 in).

Project: Higher, Further, Faster, More CLASSIFIED Today subject Allycat2407 will commence another 4-week phase aimed at improving physical fitness and lowering weight-to-height ratio. This phase of project Higher, Further, Faster, More will start on Monday September 26 and will end on Sunday October 23. There will be weekly weigh-ins and measurements on Monday morning, with a final weigh-in and measurement on Monday October 24. During this challenge, the recruit will be working toward the following objectives: Fitness objective #1: Go to the gym at least once a week. Fitness objective #2: Go swimming at least once a week. Fitness objective #3: Use the stationary bike at least once a week. Dietary objective #1: Have a treat day with sugary snacks and/or alcohol no more than once a week. Level up your life objective #1: Stop biting nails and rims. Level up your life objective #2: Stop engaging in pointless, distracting activities online (i.e. check Facebook only once a day and do not fall for clickbait). The subject had this to say about the new regime. The recruit is expected to keep track of weekly progress in this dossier. Signed, Capt. C. Danvers

To summarise Fitness objective #1: I did my workout 4 out of 8 times. C Fitness objective #2: I went swimming 5 out of 8 times. C+ Fitness objective #3: I used the stationary bike 1 out of 4 times. E Dietary objective #1: I had 8 out of 8 treat days, but smuggled some other treats in. B Level up your life objective #1: I did not manage to kick this habit only a few times. D Level up your life objective #2: I had 4 out of 4 reading night. A My weight went from 85.3 kg (188 lbs) to 84.5 kg (186 lbs) and my waist went from 93.3 cm (36.7 in) to 92.3 cm (36.3 in). All in all not great progress. It's hard getting back into exercising after the summer. In my week off I plan to on joining a friend who is really happy about this local gym to see if that's something for me. I will have to set more realistic goals for the next challenge, because time-wise the next few months will be really busy.

Last week was again not great. I was ill. Fitness objective #1: I did my workout only once. C Fitness objective #2: I went swimming only once. C Fitness objective #3: I did not use the stationary bike. F Dietary objective #1: I had two treat days, but also had some small snacks on other days. C Level up your life objective #1: I did not manage to kick this habit on one day. D Level up your life objective #2: I had one reading night. A My weight stayed went down to 84.5 kg (186 lbs) and my waist was back down to 92.3 cm (36.3 in).

Finally able to do more exercising, although I'm not fully there yet. Hopefully in this last week I'll manage to meet the challenge. Fitness objective #1: I did my workout only once. C Fitness objective #2: I did go swimming twice. A Fitness objective #3: I did use the stationary bike. A Dietary objective #1: I had two treat days. A Level up your life objective #1: I did not manage to kick this habit on one day. D Level up your life objective #2: I had one reading night. A My weight stayed at 84.7 kg (187 lbs) but my waist was back up to 93.5 cm (36.8 in).

Today I did some exercises again, not the full circuit though, because this time I didn't go at it alone. My partner showed her routine and I did her exercises. Then I showed my routine (1 circuit) and she did my exercises. She did also challenge me to plank for 60 seconds instead of 30. It was hard, but I managed in the end.

Again, not a very good week. I was suddenly swamped with work and had to work overtime till deep in the night twice (02:30 and 04:00). It's no excuse, but it made it hard to stick to the objectives, many of which I didn't meet. Fitness objective #1: I did not do any workout. F Fitness objective #2: I did go swimming twice. A Fitness objective #3: I did not use the stationary bike. F Dietary objective #1: I had two treat days; but also had a little bit of dark chocolate on some other days. C Level up your life objective #1: I did not manage to kick this habit. F Level up your life objective #2: I had one reading night. A On a more positive note, my weight started dropping again to 84.7 kg (187 lbs) and my waist saw a decrease to 92.5 cm (36.4 in).

It wasn't quite as good a start to be honest. I was really busy in the later half of the week and I didn't do any further exercises. I ended up with a real black-and-white week. I either succeeded or failed completely, no in-between. Fitness objective #1: I complete a workout twice a week. A Fitness objective #2: I did not go swimming. F Fitness objective #3: I did not use the stationary bike. F Dietary objective #1: I had two treat days. A Level up your life objective #1: I did not manage to kick this habit. F Level up your life objective #2: I had one reading night. A My weight stayed at 85.3 kg (188 lbs) and my waist saw a (negligible) increase to 93.5 cm (36.8 in).

Yesterday was supposed to have been my first swim of the new season, but it turns out my local swimming pool decided to prolong its summer holiday by a week, without actively telling anyone. (It's a great swimming pool, but their communication sucks to the point of non-existence.) Anyway, after returning from not swimming (and playing Pokémon GO on the way there and an extra round on the way back) I decided to do another workout instead. Warm-up 1½ hrs of Pokémon GO on bike running up 3 flights of stairs Circuit #1 12 × speed skaters (6 left, 6 right) 12 × incline push-ups 12 × Bulgarian split squat (6 left, 6 right) 12 × dumbbell row (6 left, 6 right) with 15 kg (33 lbs) 15 × hip thrust 30 seconds front plank 2 minute break Circuit #2 12 × speed skaters (6 left, 6 right) 12 × incline push-ups 12 × Bulgarian split squat (6 left, 6 right) 12 × dumbbell row (6 left, 6 right) with 15 kg (33 lbs) 15 × hip thrust 30 seconds side plank (right) 2 minute break Circuit #3 12 × speed skaters (6 left, 6 right) 12 × incline push-ups 14 × Bulgarian split squat (7 left, 7 right) 12 × dumbbell row (6 left, 6 right) with 15 kg (33 lbs) 16 × hip thrust 30 seconds front plank (left) Stretching

Yesterday, late in the evening, I did my first work-out with the new routine. This is what I managed to do: Warm-up 1½ hrs of Pokémon GO on bike running up 3 flights of stairs 12 × speed skaters (6 left, 6 right) Circuit #1 12 × incline push-ups 12 × Bulgarian split squat (6 left, 6 right) 12 × dumbbell row (6 left, 6 right) with 15 kg (33 lbs) 15 × hip thrust 30 seconds front plank 2 minute break Circuit #2 12 × incline push-ups 12 × Bulgarian split squat (6 left, 6 right) 12 × dumbbell row (6 left, 6 right) with 15 kg (33 lbs) 15 × hip thrust 30 seconds side plank (right) 2 minute break Circuit #3 12 × incline push-ups 14 × Bulgarian split squat (7 left, 7 right) 12 × dumbbell row (6 left, 6 right) with 15 kg (33 lbs) 15 × hip thrust 30 seconds front plank (left) Stretching First time trying some of the exercises, but it went well. I can feel it mostly in my upper body, whereas the NF beginner bodyweight work I felt mostly in my legs. This is a good change: I don't have a car and cycle everywhere, so workout for my legs is not quite as important. Let's see if I can up the number on my second go this week.