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Challenge complete! Kind of. Last week progress: 1. I went for a run on Wednesday. That was it. 2. Cancelled. 3. I did a couple. 4. Stretched on Wednesday & Sunday. This week was really bad. Challenge Total: 1. 20/28 = 71% 2. 1/28 = Cancelled 3. 23/28 = 82% 4. 15/28 = 54% Now it's time to gear up for University. Hopefully once I'm settled at school I can do another challenge but I'm not gonna push myself during move-in/frosh/rush. Not to mention I'm reevaluating my long term goals in conjunction with getting ready for school.

That's what everyone suggested I do when my attendance problem got ridiculous senior year after I moved out. One of the things I've noticed is I'm much better at getting up early (8 am is easy) when I'm in a tent at the trailer with my parents. I slept in this weekend to (wait for it) 9:30 both days. Living in a basement sucks, can't wait to be out. It's been a while since you posted this so maybe you can give us an update? Is it working well? Have you smashed it with a hammer? Let us know!

Week 3 roundup! I forgot to do a midweek post this week so let's see what I can remember. 1. Monday I can't remember. I don't think there was a Monday this week. Tuesday I tried to run and did about 30-40 minutes of walking plus carrying a bag. Wednesday I did some cheer practise and stretching. Thursday I ran (successfully) and stretched. Friday I reciprocating sawed some wood with my dad. Saturday I babysat a bunch of kids which included running around, trampolining and more reciprocating sawing (we roasted s'mores). Today will be walking when I go get dinner and maybe stretching if I get around to it. 2. Cancelled. 3. Up to date once I do today. 4. Bundled with #1. In other news I got my notebook that will be acting as my bullet journal/planner for school, so I'm trying to set that up. Also trying to actually do the stuff on my list of things to do before school (including a bunch of money spending that makes me cringe even though it's all necessary).

I only take them when I'm dressed up/going somewhere. But I've recently rediscovered Snapchat so I've been going crazy with the animal filters. Animal me is so much cuter than person me. I had to go through my 1000+ photos looking for pictures to go on my new facebook account and only 5 made the cut. One of those was ONLY because there's a 3 day old baby that I'm holding and most of me is cut off. Child's pose isn't a stretch for me? But then again a lot of things people consider stretching is child's play (pun maybe intended) for me. I can run but it was 25 degrees and I've been really bad about taking my inhaler beforehand and I'm trying to keep my pace up a little bit instead of going as slow as humanly possible. I went for a run since then and actually found myself wanting to continue because I missed about 2 minutes running total because my phone kept telling me its battery was low and cutting off the app.

I'm the opposite for my eating. I'm more focused on cost than health (when you eat very little it's hard to be picky about what you eat) and when I was in school I would always buy my lunch because I'd forget to pack something or not want to pack something or have nothing to pack, you see where I'm going with this. Once I start school in the fall I'll be taking full advantage of the salad station You can't mess up salad without getting a health code complaint. Maybe switch to having your major meal at lunch instead (since you're not in school). That way you have all the energy you need and only need to have a light meal (salad/sandwich like you would think to have for lunch) in the evening.

I take tons of pictures, or at least, I took all kinds of them when I was volunteering with an animal shelter. But pictures of myself (selfies) not so much. And posting them... Well I don't think anyone really cares about the 500+ cute cat photos I have. I actually worked really hard on getting my left split (left leg out in front, right leg back) because literally every time I tried to do it I'd go too far and pull the muscle and even if I didn't actually limp the next time I tried it would hurt like the Dickens and well that was never fun. It's very utilitarian, my stretching program I mean. If it doesn't feel like something's trying to leave my body then it's not working. No cat pose or child's pose for me. I like to think I'm doing pretty well but my inner perfectionist is yelling at me. As it's 1:30 in the morning I'm gonna say I didn't stretch today... yesterday. I did try going for a run but stopped when I tasted iron (there is no reason to be tasting iron when it's 25 degrees outside). I did walk to Walmart though which is about an hour there and back plus carrying the groceries so quite a bit of exercise. Just about to write in my positivity journal, which is the only one I keep forgetting about but that's kind of why I'm doing it.

Hey Moralqua! Great goals. Am I right in assuming you're doing Yoga the 3 days you aren't doing Martial Arts? If so, Kudos on getting your daily activity in! How do you fit 30 minutes of walking AND a sport (martial arts and yoga are both sports in my mind) every day? I'd love to know because I have enough trouble getting 1 session of moving into my day. Have you considered eating salad as a meal? Salad is basically just a bunch of cut up ingredients mixed together so you could chop up your protein and throw in some quinoa or rice into your salad and have just one dish! But then again, I hate dishes so I'm always looking for less dishes.

I'm pretty sure someone's said Simplicity is the Spice of Life. But I could be wrong. Start small and build up momentum. Just like you can't take 6 months off and jump right back into the same intensity of training you can't take 6 months off and jump right back in to the same level of intentional living. Good luck and hopefully we'll hear about your week 2 soon!

Ahh coffee. If the WAY you drink it is the problem maybe instead of (or in addition to) cutting back on coffee you can drink it differently (ie. drinking 2 cups less with less sugar/milk/creamer in each). Drinking water is a great idea! Just make sure you don't drink too much because you can end up making yourself feel sick with too much water on an empty stomach. Also, food blog? Fun and yummy!

Day late end of Week 2 update: 1. Nothing on Saturday but I ran yesterday and will be doing cheer practise later today. 2. I was going to post a picture but my snapchat lost it before I could. 3. 14 down, 14 days. 4. Friday and Sunday had stretching but like I said, I did pretty much nothing on Saturday. For Week 3 I'm dropping task #2 since it's not happening.

Knowing when you're most productive (whether work, exercise or other) is the key to getting and staying on track. I work out best around 6 in the evening because I get super sweaty and hate having wet hair through the day but any later and my bedtime gets pushed back because of stretching/showering and being too amped up to go to bed. Now you know for next week!

I'm also interested in how you're doing, meal prep is a nightmare especially if you've tried in the past and failed/ended up sick of whatever you made. Have you tried using the gym yet? Keep us updated

I love your challenge and how detailed you are about why you want to do things. Justifying why you're doing something makes it at least 32% easier in my experience. They sound so simple but I know from experience that they're probably way more difficult than you'd expect. That's exactly what I do! Especially in the summer I have all kinds of things I want to do (programming, reading, etc. etc.) but never know where to start and end up just wanting to scroll pinterest for hours on end or watching an entire day's worth of netflix. A couple of times (it's unfortunately not something I've been able to stick with really) I've committed to doing each thing for 1 hour because at least they're productive (in that student summer kind of way) and I find once I start I don't want to stop. The exception is penmanship because I end up with really bad hand/wrist/elbow pain from reteaching myself to write.

The only time I've ever woken up at 2 in the morning in my life was one time when I was a kid wanting to see a meteor shower. Definitely don't envy your career choice. Keep up the good work! A couple days ago on my run someone's dog decided to try and follow me so I had to run back, distract it then sprint out of there before it realised I was gone. Not an attack but dogs are definitely a hazard. Go! Go! Go! You can do it!

Alright so I kind of dropped the ball in terms of updating so here's how the week went and I'll post the weekend Sunday night/Monday morning. 1. Monday was either walking or nothing (definitely walking, now that I think about it I walked about half an hour uphill cause I took a bus I don't usually take), Tuesday I ran, Wednesday was walking, Thursday was running and Today I'm gonna do some much needed Cheer Practise once the sun gets a little more off my parents' yard. 2. Again, this didn't happen. I did meet up with some girls from my University on Wednesday but no pictures. I'm beginning to think that maybe pictures just aren't my thing. Also haven't been as active in group chats this week. 3. Not always on time but I have 12 positive things down in my journal so I have 1 per day, whether they were each written 1 per day is another story. 4. Monday, Tuesday, Thursday I stretched but Wednesday was a bit hectic (I got a bunch of blood work done and almost passed out for the first time ever). After my Cheer stuff I'll do some stretching tonight. For everyone saying stretching is yoga, I have to disagree. My stretching is very utilitarian. I've been mainly focusing on my hips/knees so I usually just work my way into a split, hold for 10 seconds, repeat for the other leg and then sit with my legs apart and stretch left, middle and right. Then I repeat that a couple of times. I've also been trying to work on my bridge but my back flexibility isn't really the problem, it's my wrist flexibility and arm strength that I'm working on there. I usually stretch while watching netflix so there's no mindfulness/meditation component it's 'how far can I bend without pulling something and limping for three days straight' (true story).