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Nice not a common occurence! Awesome, glad you found something interesting! Not only fun, but honestly with all the mash ups of different areas of bodyweight work, I'm getting some real insight into what types of bodyweight exercise I enjoy, what pushes me most, which type of workouts I finish feeling bored and unchallenged, etc. It's a bit of an eye opener from the classic 'do 10 pushups, crunches, jumping jacks, sit ups' style of beginners routine, which I can never manage to stick to. So far I'm finding I hate the yoga-style stretching days they present a good challenge to my muscles, but they're not as active, so my brain thinks of them as warmup rather than workout and I end up restless all day unless I do another workout too.

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Because of the way time zones work, challenges for me generally start on Mondays. Halfway through the day, and I'm already ticking off a lot of boxes. No soda is a bust though, I had almost a full bottle left so I finished that off. No more left now though, so it's all downhill from here. If the caffeine headaches get rough, I've got tea. I'll allow myself that much, but the soda has to go. Cashing in on mornings being my most productive time is a habit I need to maintain, I get more done before breakfast than I usually do for the rest of the day. Currently sat in the debate of "I ate breakfast and now I should be thinking about lunch but I'm honestly not really hungry, but I kinda should eat". Skipping meals is a problem I've had for a little over a decade, and I've already got a really precarious hormonal system, imbalance throws everything sideways. I might need to do a little recalculation on my portion sizes, experiment with the satiation factor a bit. For now, just see how it goes.

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While I'm not starting full force until the start of the challenge itself this time around, laying the groundwork really shows at the moment. Soda's been gone for a couple of days, and while I miss the flavour I can't say I miss the carbonation, and the caffeine withdrawal isn't bad this time round because I've only been drinking soda again for a couple of weeks. I'm sleeping better which is always a good thing, upping my water intake and cutting out the crap always helps. Started Foundation-Light yesterday, so my muscles are a little sore but no real major aches. I always miss waking up and needing a good stretch, and the more I move the more restless I get, which keeps me moving. Got out for a walk yesterday and sat on the porch for a bit today, with the weather getting warmer it's pretty glorious. Still trying to find something I want to read. I'm thinking about grabbing some Pratchett on Kobo, because much to most people's horror I've never read any of his work. And with the amount of books he produced, if it's something I like it could keep me in reading material for a while. Getting my room tidied in chunks, so it's gradually getting cleaner and cleaner. Making it the first thing I do in the morning is helping adopt the habit. Still not written a word, though I've been doodling so that's something creative at least. Just gotta keep plugging on.

Yeah, but the same can be said of most things really. It's something I want to be doing, developing the habit takes a little effort

Well I had plans for a productive day and then some asshat I know decided to wake me up after 4 hours sleep because he was bored and wanted someone to talk to. So now I'm aching, exhausted and in a pissy mood, because once I'm awake that's it, I'm up for the day. Sayonara productivity.

Thankyou! Maybe! Last month I had a mood tracker in that slot but it didn't really work for me so I'm not putting it in this month. Just leaves me with a big gap that I could slot things into. I was also thinking about maybe listing calorie intake/macros there as well. I track that on Lifesum but having a physical log as well wouldn't hurt.

Getting some early prep work in for next month so I'm not scrambling all over the place on the 30th trying to get my December pages sorted. I'm experimenting with formats for my habit tracker. Last month was almost identical but boxes weren't outlined, which meant every filled box was lopsided and drove me crazy. Not sure how I feel about this one yet, but it's functional at least. My biggest issue is the chunk of space I've not quite decided what to do with yet.

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I love walking in the rain running must be fun too. Following!

Wooo for newbies! Good luck! I've got my pompoms out!

I'm the same, I have to work out every day or I fall off the wagon almost instantly. Good luck!

Thanks for such a warm welcome! Always nice to find a friendly place

3 eggs OR a large protein bar OR 200g Greek yoghurt with some cinnamon and vanilla OR 200g oatmeal Depends on the weather. Usually I grab the bar, because eating in the morning is often a problem for me.

Thanks for the welcome! I've done a few of their basic workouts before, this time I'm following through with one of the 30 day workout programs, which is a mixture of cardio and strength based bodyweight workouts. I'll look into the Days of Gravity! Honestly my room is so small that it only takes 15 minutes to clean when it's really bad. But being that small means I really just can't afford to let it get messy, two days of laundry on my floor instead of in the laundry basket is a significant mess in this teeny space. It's just picking up after myself, instead of being lazy about it. My instagram is the_saraverse. I read a lot of fantasy, though I've been drifting away from high fantasy recently. I like a lot of different things though, been dabbling in some sci fi and when the mood strikes I'm fond of crime novels and mystery too.

Hello! This is my first challenge with the assassins. My first challenge outside of the level 1 guild, actually. I had to sit last challenge out because life decided to smack me in the face every way it possibly could. I actually considered taking this one out too and starting fresh in the new year, but I couldn't find a good reason to. So here I am, making a head-start on next year's progress. The Challenge I thought about putting together a theme, but decided against it in the end. This is me climbing back on a very old, fat, worn-out horse. Right now I want to direct all of my focus to staying upright. So it's just me, doing the things. I changed the format of how I work pretty early on in my first challenge. Instead of four larger goals I set down a half-dozen small things I needed to implement into my daily routine instead. Since that worked for me, I'm going to continue in the same manner this time around. At this point in my progress, my largest drawback is establishing and maintaining a routine. It's just too easy to lay in bed checking my emails for six hours and then order pizza. The To-Do List 1) No Soda 2) Workout 3) Shower 4) Tidy Room 5) Do Something Creative (Write or Draw) 6) 2l Water 7) Eat Healthy 8) Post to Instagram 9) Read 10) Go Outside Spoiler for wall-of-text info dump on this list. Tracking I use a bullet journal, with a habit tracker. Not all of these habits are on my November tracker, but most of them are so I can track what I've got there. Then a few days into the challenge we head into December, so I'll have my entire tracker set up. Rewards My birthday is also at the end of this month (12/31) so rewards aren't really a thing I'm going to be doing because I'm already getting myself fun things like I do every year. But the potential upswing in my mood, self-care and overall mental/physical health will be reward in and of itself. I'm walking the long road, it has to start with a few steps, followed by a few more.

Just writer. Good ol' starving artist kind.

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Well, here we are. I dropped off the forum at the start of the last challenge because I had stuff going on that was getting me stressed out and I needed to focus on those. First it was a cancer scare. Then a diabetes scare. Both came up clean, I'm safe. But of course it couldn't end there, because when the universe decides to knock me own it goes to town. Last week my fiance decided he was going to toss away our entire relationship for a girl he met two days previously. So naturally I jumped right off the wagon and wallowed in depression for the last four days. But now I'm passing through the wallowing, because lucky I'm not stupid. If he valued me so little that some blonde can turn his head that hard, he didn't deserve me in the first place. It's time for me to focus on myself, channel the rage and grief and spite into something productive. I've got my nice lemon-yellow Leuchtturm1917 journal arriving in the next couple of days for my bullet journal. One day, one step at a time. Pick up where I left off at the start of the last challenge. I've never had a lack of stubborn, now it's all about giving the finger to everyone else.

Good news on that front, but now they've had my blood tests and they're testing me for type 2 diabetes tomorrow. So I'm sitting this one out, just in case. Cause that will be major upheaval and will dump a lot more on my plate. Having a few weeks respite will help me find a balance. I'll be lurking around, and good luck with your challenges!

That alone pretty much covers it. The setup on the level 1s subforum is not really conducive to being social at all, there's no general chat thread etc like the other subforums have, so for someone like me who gets some serious anxiety jumping into people's threads at random it meant I was pretty much an island of my own making, because no general space to begin getting to know people. So I had a couple of people come in and make an idle comment/suggestion about something I was doing, but most of the time I was kinda talking at thin air and wondering if this was the right place for me to be. I like making friends but I'm not good at making friends, and coming into a subforum where most people already somewhat knew each other usually means a lot of cliques and a rough time making any. And I'm rambling, heh. Anxiety.

Right now, this is kind of a placeholder thread. I'm not sure where I'm going to be by the start of this challenge. Spoiler for personal life shenanigans. So things are a bit stressful for me right now. On top of that, my first challenge in the level 1s was not the most positive of experiences, and I'm not 100% sure I actually want to continue doing challenges. But I'm not sure I don't want to either. So a placeholder. Until I know what's going on.

Well it's past 3pm on the Saturday for me, so I've just about hit the end of a challenge. Personally it went as well as I could have expected. I got a lot of what I wanted to do done routinely, which is what was most important to me. A few hiccups kept me from doing everything as fully as I wanted to, but overall I'd consider it a pretty successful event. In terms of the challenge itself...eh. I felt like the newness of the return of the level 1s/newbies forum really made an impact in how it operated. The social aspect wasn't great, and most of the time I was just talking at the wind. Jumping straight into people's threads causes me a chunk of social anxiety. As the newbies guild moves on, it's probably worth adding a social thread, the same as all the other subforums have. An opportunity to mingle in a group thread would exponentially increase the camaraderie development, which is real important in that first challenge to drive the motivation to move forward. As it stands, my updates trailed off and I've not decided if I want to do another challenge because of it. Will see what happens when the new challenge gets posted but at this exact moment...probably not.