ValkyrieRising

Theres also a lot of pressure to keep them despite the health risk it can pose if youre a younger breast cancer patient. I even had doctors telling me not to consider a mastectomy (which was decided against for health reasons and complications affecting treatment and not because BEWBZ!) because I was too young and would regret it. Which is also an issue with getting tubes tied or permanent BC. As a woman youre "not allowed" if youre below a certain age because of course all woman want kids and will change their mind. *blinks. Climbs off soapbox* Pardon me, I just came to see how medical treatments were often avoided or denied simply for appearances sake during the last 3 years. It amazed mehow many sound medical discussions were sent careening off track because "OMG BEWBZ!!!" Back to Deftona's butt. *resumes staring at the butt*

Hi! Im Valkyrie Rising, you can call me Izzy however. Since thats technically my name sort of. I am most looking forward to getting my life back on track. Im in my early 30s and finally in remission so Ive got so much time to look forward to and plenty of time to do it all, I plan to grab life by the balls and go for it! Couldnt resist a second gif. Im a gif fiend. All the gifs!!!

Is this how many a Ranger thread goes? From new year plans, to butts, to boobs to social exploration of the imagery for men and woman. Cause if so...Im all in. I love when discussion bounces everywhere (here and there and everywhere, these are the gummi bears!)

Wait, we all have butts? And some boobs. Omg how dare you talk such talk. *snort* I have a great many thoughts on the topic of people sexualizing what is ultimately just body parts. You should have heard how many people who said I wouldn't be a real woman if I got my boobs removed during cancer or assumed "well of course youll have fake ones put in because what real woman wouldnt have boobs." I was like....my mom. But thats neither here nor there. Butts are whats on my mind now. Hot butts. Popping butts. All the butts. And Id put in a neat meme or gif but I am technically at work so looking up butt stuff on a work computer in a medical setting is not going to provide gifs anyone wants to see. Trust me.

Shame that, I would have loved to have known their opinion on their butts. And now we've made your thread all about the butts all the time. Butts, butts and nothing but butts!!!! Ahem. *coughcough* Sorry

OMG. I did. I totally did. Now I am stalking this thread even more. Death to Disney! Ahem. *hides in a corner to watch the Scrooge fest and imagining everything posted said in David Tennants Scrooge voice while battling a Predator*

See but this is exactly what I'd want. I fully admit here. I have looked at other butts and been like...."Oh no, you poor pancake girl. Its okay, there there." I want an actual eval. Honesty. Its flat and uninspiring....so heres some exercises....or get the Nicki minaj Plastic surgery for only $999 per cheek! Which reminds me of the news story about the fake doctor who was really just a woman using an iv to inject all sorts into womens butts. And there gooes my brain off into wondering what you could possibly inject and.....sigh. Down the rabbit hole, Alice.

All the booty is mesmerizing this early in the morning. I found myself blanking out on the homer gif up thread. Then I read about your booty judge and was like....I need me one of those. However all my friends have significant others who may object to their girlfriend/boyfriend examining my rear in full detail. I think someone needs to set up an internet service for that. A bootyjudgers.com or something. You pick a judge, they evaluate and critique until youre happy with where your rear is. Just an idea.

Yeah thats what Im planning for. Just a pain to be all like "I got this, this is going to rock. New Year off to great start....conk, trip over the curb before I even start my hike kind of thing." Oh well, tonight is a new night!!

Well I wasn't even a full 24 hours into this challenge and already messing it up. I didnt even try to go to bed last night until 1115 and was up looking at my phone until 1230. Then had trouble getting comfortable and staying asleep. I'm lucky if I got 4 hours last night. This isn't the most auspicious beginning to a challenge. New rule to help with sleeping. Bed by 10pm. No phone in bed.

I like psychedelic. Especially if it includes lots of shiny and bright.

Add in tons of computer, tv and game consoles and thats my computer room. Sigh. It needs cleaning so badly. Im with you on this.

Thank you! Glad to be here. And thats what Im hoping. Even if it takes me twice as long to get things done it still gets them done. So it may take two challenges for one goal. At least I meet the goal!

Aww, thanks. Though I think I should add another mini goal in there to stop biting my nails. Ah well, too late now. These are my goals. there are many like them but these are mine.

I couldnt not follow this challenge. You have Scrooge Mc Duck versus Predator with one predator head on a stick. Who can't help but follow that. *whistles the Duck Tales theme song and settles in to watch*

Here to follow. Stalking one of each thread in each of the guilds I cant make up my mind on and Baymax love wins it for me. That big floofy rubbery dude wins all the things for me. Also...library....drool. I have long debated selling this home and buying a 4 bedroom place to to have an extra room to turn into a library. Unfortunately I cant justify the cost since I already have one bedroom thats for all my gaming. So maybe I shall be jealous of yours for now.

Here for the follows. Im making it a point to follow one of each guild Im debating so youre the lady for me in this one. I feel you on some of those goals. Im trying to get my money under control and get hideous medical bills paid off so Ill have to check out this Barefoot Investor! Thanks. *settles in for the long term...or 4 weeks. Ahem*

You. I like you. Im here for the follows. Trying to follow one thread in each of the guilds Im interested in and cruise through some others and yours looks amazing. (Maybe because part of my overall health goal is to look good nekkid again as well.) So far Ive learned about bullet journaling, Strong Curves and butt popping. I think thats a great start to my 2018 so youre the woman to follow for me! *begins the scary stranger stalking/watching of this thread and all its deliciousness* O.O

Hello fellow Rebels. I am Valkyrie Rising and this will be my second challenge. Im still trying to figure things out, about myself and Nerd Fitness, so I figured this was a good place to start. I'm working hard on preparing for the year ahead but with not a lot of down time between X-Mas and New Years I had some issues trying to decide what my second challenge would be. What are my goals. What am I doing. I keep wanting to do all the things but I have to take it slow and easy due to some health issues I'm still working with and working on. So I'm keeping it simple for one more challenge to try and ingrain in my brain the habits my body needs. Main Goal: To return to the healthy state of being I was in 3 years ago. I don't want to lose a set amount of weight or be able to lift a certain amount of weight or run any races. (Yet) I just want my body back to feeling healthy as it was 3 years ago before cancer. This means getting back into eating healthy instead of just eating whatever is easy or quick or you can choke down without being sick. (Im pretty sure Im a giant mashed potato after 3 years of alot of mashed potatoes). Im barely into my 30's, I want my health back. I want to feel good walking up stairs and running and hiking and going back to Crossfit and eating good food that tastes good. But this is a process and it took 3 years to go from feeling good about myself to WTF BODY stop doing that to me! So to get to this goal here are my challenge goals. Goal 1: I will sleep a minimum of 6 hours a night. I learned the hard way in my previous challenge that if I don't get sleep it ruins my chances at achieving my other goals. Im a zombie, my body breaks down. I can barely manage to get through a work day because my body is still in recovery mode. I'm still recovering from anemia that put me in the hospital with multiple blood transfusions as a side effect of chemo and cancer. So not getting sleep when running on an exhausted body already just compounds the issue. So the key to making sure my other goals are met, which in turn works towards my main goal, is getting a good amount of sleep at night. I probably need 8 but Im not too horrible with this. However with finally being back at work Im noticing a pattern of not getting to sleep as early as I used to so want to keep that from becoming a bad habit. Goal 2: I will plan my meals and prep them ahead of time every week so I can bring them to work with me and avoid bad for me food and meals. I did this last challenge and it worked well once I got the hang of how it works for me. Im going to keep it up this challenge because I want to make it a habit and not a chore. Right now Im struggling to find delicious foods that dont bore me every week. Last challenge I think I had Harissa Chicken with chickpeas for 15 days in a row. So Im hoping this will help my branch out into new areas of cooking again while working to keep my calories and processed foods under control. I relied on convenience foods a lot during chemo treatments when I could eat and so I became too dependent on takeout, Grub Hub and stuff out of a box or can. Goal 3: Healthy Mind and Body needs a healthy environment. I need to clean my house. So my house isn't horrible. However trying to take care of myself and my home I had to make choices. At one point my closet rod fell and (Im ashamed to admit) I was too weak to lift it back up so alot of my clothes stayed laying on my closet floor. My clean laundry is piled on the guest room spare bed and when I need to get ready for work I go in there and pick through and run them through the dryer to get rid of wrinkles. My dishes get washed but sometimes I dont unload the dishwasher for a day or two. I have wood floors downstairs but upstairs is carpet and Ive been avoiding trying to drag the vacuum upstairs so the carpets are probably not in the best of shapes. In other words the house isnt a mess but its a mess. So Im going to clean one of the big rooms each week and one of the little rooms each week. Big rooms: Kitchen. Living Room. Bedroom. Master Bath. Little rooms: Guest room. Dining Room. (Just because I havent used it for anything in like..2 years so its clean just unused and dusty.) Guest bathroom. Half bath. Theres one room however that needs to see the light of day. It needs scrubbing from top to bottom, cleaning, airing out with fresh cold winter air. The computer room where I have lived for the last few years and existed. Its been my salvation. Playing games, talking to my online friends in games and through Discord. Wow, Destiny, Elder Scrolls. The fantasy world helped me forget the reality and made things easier but it needs to be returned to it's cleaner state. Bookshelves are empty from where I took books out and then let them pile on the floor. Cords are a mess from getting a new rig and not making it nice and neat behind my desk. New consoles means theyre all just stacked on top of each other, not good for heat issues and such I know. This is a big project so one week it will just be the computer room/3rd bedroom. So those are my goals. A little simple but with the start of the New Year my goal is keeping the healthy habits Ive started so they stay just that. Habits. Thanks and HAPPY NEW YEAR to you all. Oh, and just like last time.

Sorry, things get crazy between Christmas and New Year in medical billing. Prepping for the changing on insurances for a few hundred or so people admitted to the hospital currently. Headache is gone, on a break at work, can finally type up my summary. So overall on the challenge. I had some rough days. Issues with not eating or not having prepped food to hand. This caused a few setbacks but overall I did well. My goals were met at about 90%. I managed to keep to my calorie goals mostly except for 3 or 4 days. I tracked my calories every day, even the bad ones. I had food prepped for meals every week, even if I didn't always manage to eat them or bring them to work. Despite Christmas and New Years food I stuck to my calories for the holidays minus my two planned deviations and altogether Im pelased. Ive also decided on some possible future goals involving sleep. Exercise. Eating habits. So all in all it was a constructive first challenge. Im still struggling with which guild to go to. Adventurers. Rangers. Warriors. Rebels. So many choices. Maybe Ill just realize I want it all and accept the ranger brain and head that way. We shall see.

Wrap up to come, just sticking this in here. I know challenge is over but I like to reflect and wrap up and contemplate and what not. Just busy at work with a wicked headache from a few too many glasses of wine.

All the things is me all right. Enroll in school.....I want to take allllllllllllllll the classes. Leann a language. I must learn them all. Join a crossfit gym. I must do every exercise! Go hiking! Do the whole Appalachian Trail! (Okay, Ive never hiked the whole Appalachian Trail. But it illustrates my point. I also didn't learn all the languages, take all the classes or do all the workouts. But damn if I didn't want to.) In my dreams Im a Professor of Historical Astrophysics that Curates all the museums exhibits and develops school educational programs for the ER where I work as a doctor and then save all the animals in the wild! Hrmm. Ranger Brain it is.

I always watch the movies all the way through then ask myself why I bothered. My friends stopped asking me a long time ago what I think of movies "based on historical events." I think the last friend dumb enough to ask was for 47 Ronin with Keanu Reeves. Im debating between Ranger, Warrior, Adventurer or Rebel. I may go Rebel for 1 or 2 challenges while I get my groove then pick one of the other 3 though it may be a whole transition along with my challenges. Like start with Rebel, transition into Adventurers, flip into Rangers and lift into Warriors. Though is that allowed? I feel like as my transformation moves I may move my goals and priorities and where I feel I should be but maybe that's not allowed. Hrmm, off to research

I keep starting and re-starting this over and over and then get distracted by work and lose everything so 4th or 5th time is the charm. Okay the most important thing to be said. Go. See. Star. Wars. It's amazing. Funny. Well done. Just go. Now, on to the challenge side of things. So as previously said I learned how important sleep is to me in this stage of my recovery. It used to be the odd 4 hour night here or there (or all week) didn't cause too many issues for me. But as I recover from the last 3 plus years of surgeries and chemo my body has changed. I need to respect that change and realize my body is different. Good health now includes sleep of more than 2-3 hours during the night. Get healthy again isn't just eating better or working out. It's taking care of your body. This will probably play into one of my next challenges or for several. So Saturday and the Xmas party at my friends house. I arrive. Much cocktails. Many treats. So food. "Oooh they have nibbles. I love nibbles." I try to go about it logically. Let's nibble on prosciutto wrapped asparagus. Garlic chili tapas style Shrimp. Stuffed grape leaves. Labneh. So many goodies. Fill up on those, drink two glasses of water for every cocktail. Then come treat time I only have room for a few. One of each of the best looking ones. Did I still indulge too much? Absolutely. I broke my calorie limits for the day and tomorrow. But this is a once a year deal so I enjoyed too much food and drink and took a Lyft home and don't feel guilty one bit. Sunday I prepped my little heart out for all the food in the world. I decided to just make a bunch of various munchies to enjoy during the day and slow graze on all of them. That way Im sure to eat and not skip because of how busy work is. So sandwiches cut into squares. Goat cheese and salami and cucumbers sliced thin. Oranges and grapes. Mozzarella and tomatoes. I feel like Im doing lunch style tapas or meze. Since Greece is my secondary field of study (Especially an examination of the City-States Alliance and how their destruction led to the creation of the Greek unified country in Classical Times. There may or may not be a paper out there along those lines. Ahem.And while I enjoyed 300 for it's pretty scenery, or eye-pleasing scenery, lets not discuss it's non existent historical value.) Back off my soapbox. So it's going to be a good week and let me avoid the 3 different work party lunches with my healthier choices for food. I've begun thinking about the next challenge, which is still some time off but I'm trying to decide on a guild and a place for myself as well as a theme and thread to tie all my challenges together. Im an obsessive researcher sometimes so trying to sort all this out is helping occupy my free time at home. Well, that and my return to gaming. So Im sticking with the Viking feel and the road from mild mannered would have been librarian and document preservationist to eventual Valkyrie and kick ass....whatever Im going to be when I grow up. Or finish my PhD. Either way it's an interesting way to spend my last week of this challenge. For this week Im giving myself an 80 out of 100. And Im okay with that. Its where I want to be anyways. I do need to be better with what I eat but Ill count sticking to my calorie goals with only a few hiccups or planned straying from the path as a win for this week. Im going to hit this last week hard and make sure I gout out on a high note for 2017 and start 2018 with the beginning of my Valkyrie transformation!

So I had no counted on another complication of the movie. I was so focused on making sure my eating was only bad that evening I forgot about the timing of going to a 1030pm showing. Done at 115am. Up for work at 5 am. Not good for my exhausted self. I stumbled out the door, forgot my lunch and snacks. Didnt do my smoothie. Got to work with nothing to eat, drink or have at all. Not that it mattered because I was barely coherent with what was going on. Managed to clear my Workqueues Friday and thats about it. I got home. Ate my lunch and then passed out in bed. So lesson learned about next time I go see a movie. Full update tomorrow, need to go get some sleep now.