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Been keeping up with eating. doing multiple sets of 3 pullups at a time now. have lost 14 lbs since the (early) beginning of the challenge. Saved a couple $K, completely satisfying that goal, will be able to really take a chunk out of debt, and stress all at once. HAvent been good about posting here, but even just having set this up really got me going! will try to be better with posting till the end!

Started paleo full force yesterday, went food shopping with nothing but beef, chicken and veggies on the list. Cooked a giant stir fry of kale, onions, peppers and shallots, and added a pound of ground beef to about half of it. the ground beef half was dinner last night for all 3 of us, and lunch today for me. the other half the stir fry will be dinner tonight and lunch tomorrow.

We finally set a wedding date, and i have less than 6 months to be a bit less of the man i currently am (well more of a man, but there needs to be less of me) Goals: Every meal enjoyed by baby, fiance and me, with a paleo slant At 16 months i want my son to eat whatever he is willing to eat, and that changes daily, some days he wants veggies, some days fruits and some protiens (and sometimes nothing but milk or juice). AS many of the shared meals as we can im hoping to make paleo, but absolutely no garbage (junkfood, desserts, etc). Bike when weather permits, pedal at desk when it doesnt. 30 mins/day avg . I keep a small cycle apparatus under my desk at work, and generally pedal the day away on it. since i only work 4days a week and wont have access to it 3 days, 30 mins avg means about an hour a work day. will try to keep walking as much as possible independent of biking (started challenge early in San Diego last week, avg 5 miles walked per day that i tracked, but we walked EVERYWHERE!) 5 pullups in a single set. right now i can do 5+ but i need to stop every 2-3 for a break. id like to be up to doing 5 at a time, multiple times a day (i hung my pullup bar in the main walking path in the house and stop most times i walk by to do a few) when he will let me, im putting the boy in a backpack for some additional resistance (+30 lbs) Save $100 for wedding. doesnt seem like much, it isnt, but our finances are tight and I need to find a way to save atleast this much, if not a lot more, in addition to what i already try to save. essential, decrease stupid spending by atleast $100 over the next month and a half and put that savings aside. hopefully these things will help me lose some weight, build some muscle and take away some of the stress of a wedding. a friend is sending us a Jillian Michaels workout program. I will try it and if it is something that will work for me, i will probably want to change one of my goals to get X number of weeks through program without murdering Jillian (x being the time left in the challenge when the program arrives). I did start the challenge early with exercise and paleo in mind, since i was on a working vacation in San Diego. I cant have gluten anyway, but the ease of getting a "protein style" burger out there, made it a lot easier to start eating paleo again. no cheeseburgers, and i stopped ordering triple burgers (unless i was really hungry, and even then only if i was taking one patti out for my son), no fries or shakes (and never soda for years now) after my first week there. we walked everywhere while there and purposely went places we needed to walk, like the zoo and safari park, and didnt take trams, just used our feet, it was fantastic. Push will be to continue on this path of exercise and good eats.

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so far so good with the junk food, been eating well and aside from being super hungry when i first got sick, ive been able to keep it to reasonable portions too.

i am signing up for another 5k the 31st. winning a wedding is totally awesome! makes us really move forward. And it is at Fenway Park, so, we get to have some fun with themes and stuff, at least a little bit! Still fighting off a cough, but enjoying the short bike rides from car and the lunchtime walks. (rides still tracked with runkeeper, though the nike+ stuff is a pain to transfer manually, so looking for an automatic option)

i was stoked for the 5k but too sick to go found a zombie 5k at work, on 10/31, going to sign up for that. Bumbed that I'm missing out on quality weather and fun cause im sick, the best i could do was eat well, and try not to cough myself to death. Folding bike had slashed tire, got it fixed over the weekend, so this week i will again be adding my tiny rides to the total. We finally have a deadline for when we are going to be married and i will be in shape by then (we won a wedding that we must use before the end of sept 2013, not nearly as long as i thought i had). Looking into some old and new strength training options, will need to start trying some out as well as check the science on the old, they might very well be outdated. Probably should update this more now that I'm back to 75% health, might help me get back to 100%.

I havent had time to post much, went to an awesome wedding, got sick sometime while traveling, still sick, that just about sums it up. going to try to do this weeks challenge, and still on for the 5k this weekend, asssuming i have recovered at least a little bit.

I am going to keep the intro short, since as usually I am writing this at work where the site is barely functional. 1. Bike at least 10 times again. Since I am now biking a short distance at work, I am putting a mileage count on this too, to keep it challenging. At least 50 Miles (this may change after i do the math, but by my rough estimate this should be right) 2. finish the tuff scrambler. I havent done a 5k race before, or an obstacle course either, so the goal is, finish, dont die, try not to break anything... 3. keep up with eating well. this is really too generic a goal, but im not sure how specific i can realistically make it, with current bedgetary contraints, not eating junk cause it is cheap is what I want right now. 4. get budget back under control. it isnt so much that spending is out of control, but i had unexpected expences ($1500 in car repairs) that I just wasnt prepared to cover, and now everything else is hurting because of it. I also want to walk as much and as often as possible, continue reading a lot and keep getting to work on time (been great for 2+ weeks, i think the idea of biking when i get here is really helping)

Did all my non point goals, which ended up being some of my better concentration this time around. The real point behind this challenge was to make a better me and spend more quality time with family. I got a ton of quality time with my family, without sacrificing too much exercise time. SO was not ready for working challenge 1. I started the C25K program, but didn't get as far as I'd have liked, A for effort and starting running again, so even though i dont have a 5k time to report yet, i worked towards my 5k stamina and obstacle course in october. (+1 STR, +3STA, +1CON) 2. Knocked this one out of the park. 23 rides over the challenge. Loved getting out so much, I want to keep it up if i can before it gets too cold to go out after work. Improved my loop times, never did check old vs new, but my average speed went up considerably and im finding it easier and easier to do my ride. HR monitor has helped me a bit with guaging performance as well. A++++ (i know no extra credit but it is nice to have a challenge element where past performance led my to severely underestimate myself) (+3 STR, +2DEX) 3. ate VERY healthy the whole challenge. grilled probably 60% of my meals (which means all meat and grilled veggies). Desserts (GF cookies, cake etc, and ice cream, even coconut milk ice cream) for special occassions only. kept carbs other than sweet potatos to a minimum. i wouldnt say i did more than 50% paleo, but as always 100% GF and cut out a lot of crap I was eating. while i would like to try going full paleo, and with a birthday and bachelor party (so cake and copious alcohol) this wasnt looking to be my best 6 weeks, i think i (or in the case of this part WE as a family) did really well. A for effort and execution (and eating well even while traveling and drinking, no crap meals) (+2 Con, +1 CHA) 4. i improved my bills, hygiene and laundry, and got a few applications in, but i dont think i excelled at any of these things. the bills especially, i need to get them overpaid as much as possible, which was brought into stark light as I had two seperate major car repairs to pay for, and not enough padding to pay them and bills and feel comfortable. getting rid of bills will help that a lot. A for effort, did a lot better than i have before, but B for execution. so B+? (+1.5 WIS) I am definitely getting the hang of goal setting, making sure im being realistic, and exectution. I spent a lot of time away from the forums this challenge, got busy doing rather than talking about it, but I'd like to find a middle ground, since I find the encouragement, and being able to encourage others very helpful. A- overall. I set realistic goals with realistic expectations of myself, exectued them fairly well, with the exception of better habits, which was probably a bit too broad, cause i tried to incorporate items i would have broken out with individual values in previous challenges. In the future I am going to try to be even more specific with my goals, so i have better measurables and acheivables (like the bike 10 ten times or read 3 books last challenge) it gives me a target and tangible results. points: +4 STR +3 STA +3 CON +3 DEX (incl +1 from mini challenge) +1 CHA +1.5 WIS +15.5 total

I have to second the FreeRuns or some of the other "free" shoes, they seem to have a better (more ergonomic) shape. Ive started using my merrells exclusively for biking, they give that clipped feel without the "suicide" potential. Great job and congratulations on the size 2! Workouts are super impressive and really put the rest of us (well at least me!) to shame. I think maybe my next challenge should be try to keep up with you, but i doubt i could come close!

I'm fine, baby was at home. Car will be fixed, just didnt need another money pit for a little bit.

FML after doing so well with bills I got in a fender bender that might bankrupt me

well, apparently it was hidden upgrade in my iphone, the ability to convert any bike to a swim bike! also, swim bike travel is 2-3x faster than roads, per my gps!

FOlding bike definitely looks funny. The small wheels can be a disadvantage with road hazards: case in point, we have a ton of railroad tracks in the roads at work, and going over them, even perpendicular is an adventure. Bike itself is less stable, since it is short with low features but the rider is high, so this means one handed riding and breaking are not the best idea. Mine has a rack, so if i didnt have my backpack id be abel to carry stuff without using my hands. as far as peddling efficiency...id say the position is no worse than some stationary bikes in terms of how vertical the arrangement between rider and pedals is. mine has a 3gear internal hub, 3rd gear is high enough for the riding im doing here to feel liek a "high gear" i could probably cut my walking time in half again with my road bike (or kill myself over the tracks with it) but it would draw more attention than the goofy little folding bike. -end report- i have seen some folding bikes with a neat, if not even more unusual design, finding link before posting...but their inherent portability even when folded seems like a great idea, especially for those of us stuck in an office. http://www.strida.com/en/products/ no chain grease and it rolls while folded...also, since car trunks are designed around sets of golf clubs, would fit easily into cars even small ones... -end engineering geek out- ride in today was faster, though it will be harder to judge, due to where i work my gps jumps aorund and runkeeper decided i biked VERY fast, out into the atlantic ocean a half mile or so...

walking today? i could swear we did those on a hillside in track, and called them suicides...

I was super bummed i couldnt make it! I had a bachelor party in Chicago all weekend. Baby and I will be at the next one though! Boss stayed super late last nite so no family bike ride. The folding bike is...effective? I am just not sure I'd call it fun, but it was nice riding in and saved me a ton of time! i think the tear came from either riding in the grass next to the paths (with Baby-on-board I cant actually get off the bike and remount, at least not easily, so i just ride and ride and ride) or from stopping short. one of my neighbors kids wanted to ride with us, but needed to learn first and occasionally he just stops short for no reason. with dad and baby on the bike, thats 230+ #s mostly on the read tire as it skids, so it might be the cause as well. i have been very lucky on sink holes, though im not sure how ive avoided that particular "feature"

I only sprint cause i like to, and thats mostly when im bored. I am not in any shape to be trying to sprint anywhere on a regular basis. I hope the video was filmed on my good side! the retake might kill me if it wasnt. Today, my parents had an extra folding bike they didnt want anymore, and offered it to me, as i seem to collect bikes i jumped on it, literally and figuratively. I am going to keep it in my car and park farther from my office so i can bike in rather than walk! Now if only i knew the magic trick to folding the right, id be all set! going to try to take the kiddo out tonight in the trailer, with SO and my dad, assuming it isnt too dark or too cold. Need to find a light source for the trailer, and might try hooking it up to my road bike. Mountain bike with front seat is out of commission for atleast a week, it needed a tune-up badly, including some true-ing (sp?) and two weeks ago i put a 2 inch hole in the rear tire. i have replacement tires and tubes (every decade or so, whether i like it or not)but want to get the wheels trued and the tuneup scheduled before i do anything else. (which will require moeny i dont have right now) luckily i aquired a new stablemate, my brothers old full suspension mountain bike. the thing is a beast, over and off curbs (or logs i suppose, but i dont see a lot of those in the city) like it is nothing. meant to take a picture of my paleo extravaganza for lunchtoday, but i forgot cause i was too busy mowing it down like a boss. i had a salad with avocado, bacon, tomatoes, onions and a hardboiled egg AND country style ribs. while im not sure how paleo the dressing (though it should be olive oil, vinegar, and spicey mustard) or my rib sauce is, it was all home made and delicious!!! been eating most of my meals like this, with little or no carbs or sugar, since the start of the challenge. I suppose i could make it all again and take a picture tomorrow, but that seems a bit greedy O:-)

Tuff Scrambler? that's all i know. I'm doing it with some of SO's cousins. I'm hoping the old guys im going with will pace me nicely O:-) Bike rides have been great! Discovered the bike i had SO on so she could keep up was a POS, and it was making things harder not easier. working on fititng another one from the stable, which has grown again, to her. And the sprints, well, my fortune is ok, so i dont think i face planted, but everyone else was a bit put out when drunk dude thinks he is 18 again, and takes off like a bat out of hell. I'm surprised there is no video of overweight office worker sprint stumbling through chi-town with my name all over it on the interwebs (i had better make sure)

awesome!

ME TOO! How was your 5k?

I haven't posted in a while but ive been working towards my goals. for non point goals ive been reading, getting to work, practicing and survived this weekend (though i may never drink again). i have been hygeining it up, paying my bills, and getting my laundry done (though this atleast still needs some improvement, clean, folded and away would have been a better goal, ill use it next time). I think i passed 10 bike rides a week or two ago. been getting good numbers on my loop, going out with baby a lot-even borrowed a trailer in hopes he might learn to sleep in it, so far no luck. I am working on the c25k, i actually signed up for a 5k obstacle course in october, but right now im just walking long distances and doing some interval jogging at lunch (though ive been told i decided sprints were the order of the day, at 3am saturday after 7 hours of drinking...and did fairly well, too bad im not sure, maybe my nano picked up the activity, though it was in walk mode so...)

I'm in but I'm confused about the timing of our mini challenges Sent from my ADR6410LVW using Tapatalk 2

Been biking a lot (well more than usual) and loving it. threw 10 pullups into the last 3 bike rides for the mini challenge. havent started c25k, yet, had baby's first birthday to plan and host, and even for a small family party we had a ton of people over. the healthy eating is going great (even with the party)! habits are so so, had so many other things going on that ii rushed these a bit, and havent really checked to make sure i paid all my bills. still reading the third game of thrones book. finishing up two audio books by the weekend. if SO will start C25k with me it will go easier, since i would probably rather be biking, and i threw that one in for her. will work on it over the weekend, and read the details more thoroughly during the week. (almost forgot +1 DEX for still being able to use arms towards the end of bike rides, for minichallenge 1)