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Gah, I forgot to post my weekly summary and the next week is half over. So week 3 Summary Workouts: Got to the gym 3 times plus one home workout and 2 long walks for a pretty good week overall workout wise. Food: Another full week of whole30 with one meal out that had a questionable salad dressing (very limited choices!) and some bacon/sausage that wasn't up to spec with what I would get on my own but not bad for eating out at a buffet (avoided all the bread and sweets!). Most cravings are gone now though all of the pumpkin everything is probably the roughest remaining (I love pumpkin pie and all things pumpkin). Creative: Busy weeks and creativity do not often mix but with a nearly last minute surge a highly creative moment was found to complete the week and end the whole week on a high note. Tonight is a lifting night (yay) and this coming weekend I plan to take some new measurements to see how things are going. I'd like to start some running again in the new few weeks to start working that in to hopefully help speed things along in the losing weight department and to help with a longer term goal (next year) of doing at least a goruck light.

maybe this will count....

Foreplay involves stampeding towards something right? Anyway onto the week 2 summary: Workouts: Awesome week of workouts, 5 days at the gym (3 lifting 2 cardio) and 1 day of working out at home Food: Full week of whole30 with one exception whilst eating out I forgot to ask for no cheese on my side salad and didn't want to try to pick out every little piece so I ate at least some of it but pushed aside as much as I could. The raspberry vinaigrette was also questionable but didn't taste very sweet but probably at least wasn't made with a great oil and might have had some sort of sweetener in it but I only used part of it (always get dressing on the side!) so I'm going going to feel two bad about those two items especially since I'm not trying for an elimination to test food impacts I'm just trying to reset what I'm eating. Creative: Another good week of being creative though I will have to figure out some creative ways to not end up causing extra sore hip flexors (maybe some creative stretching). Otherwise the challenge is going strong 2 weeks in! I will not be defeated this time! I think I'll start logging a few more things this week mostly gym related (in kooagrams of course).

Week 1 Summary (I only plan to do daily reports on overly eventful days). The first week of the challenge has started off great! No sudden illnesses or other things to cause an interruption. So mission one is on its way. For workouts this week I did two ~5 mile walks at lunch and two trips to the gym, this next week should get easier as I get back into the swing of things now that our schedule with kids and school has settled in. I'll switch to mostly lifting this week (still planning how I want to do that so more to come on lifting). Had no issues with being creative for week 1 with all mini missions completed. Week 2 may be a bit more of a challenge but hey that's why it requires creativity. I started a whole 30 on Wednesday so I'm 5 days in on that with no issues so far and not too bad on cravings (though I did head to the gym one night to avoid what the rest were eating but I think I would have resisted anyway). My starting weight is 269 lbs. I have all my other measurements as well but I'd really like to see improvements in this one in particular by the end of the challenge (and should!) to truly feel successful. Onward!

Well my second ever challenge went better than the first but still got semi derailed. So it's time to get creative (and make bigm cover his ears and/or turn red) on a new one to have it go smoothly. Main Quest: Whole30 to reset my food consumption post mini vacation Skills gained by completing: +2 CON, +2 STA Missions: 1.) Finish the damn quest! - Seriously, this sounds redundant but considering my previous two challenges have had some issues to put it nicely. Each time something has come up to make me feel I didn't fully complete the challenge even if I hit most of my goals. Anytime something comes up that in any way looks like it is going to slow me down I'm going to figure out a way to deal with it and keep to my missions and goals. Skills gained for mission: +2 WIS 2.) Workouts! - Workout a minimum of 4 times per week. I'm planning to focus more on lifting this time around as I think at least for now I'm getting more of a benefit out of it. Skills gained for mission: +2 STR, +1 DEX 3.) Get Creative! - Since I'm trying to keep this PG rated (ok maybe PG-13) some of you will understand this one and some of you won't but that is OK. This is a weekly mission to accomplish 2 creative mini missions per week for the length of the challenge. Something new each time. Skills gained for mission: +? STA, +? DEX, +? CHA (to be determined by Haikoo and any required outside input) There may also be small bonuses awarded for making bigm141414 turn red or cover his ears since he LOVES hearing about being creative. I'll post starting body numbers tomorrow 9/17 which is also the first day of my whole 30.

So time to catch up. One word, Fucking Bronchitis ok so two words but they go together like one. So week 3 (vacation) and week 4 were pretty much two steps and winded, 3rd step couch and repeat. Week 3 I hardly ate and other than a meal out or two food was pretty good. Week 4 still wasn't eating much but did eat fairly well. Week 5 was almost recovered and did manage to work out 2 times that week finally and one 4 mile walk. this was probably the best week for food for 5 of the days with 2 days of eating out with not great choices but I was finally hungry again. Week 6 was school starting for kids, soccer, cleaning and getting ready for chicago to shadow the ruck Haikoo was to do. I only got to work out once but I did go for 3-4 mile walks at lunch 3 times. This was however the worst week for food as we were out so much we ended up eating out too many times so I had 3 or 4 not paleo days instead of 2. The week post challenge included Haikoo's ruck in Chicago (where we are now at the nerditat!). Have definitely stepped up the walking portion moving around chicago. Stayed with the ruck group until about 1:30am and gave in mostly due to weather (standing around in 40 degrees and rain and wind put a damper on it when you aren't moving for 2+ hours). nearly hit 20K steps for friday though! and almost 16K was before the ruck started. So the challenge didn't go as I had hoped overall due to illness but it has gotten me going again and thinking the right way. I plan to do the next challenge as well since this one got mostly derailed and I want to finish one strong all the way through. i still feel better at the end of this one than I did at the start if not much stronger yet. So more to come!

Ok time to play catchup and go into why I haven't posted in a week. Day 7 - Post race day, took it pretty easy but ate well. this was a planned rest do so no workout Week 1 summary - Great week! met all the planned goals and survived warrior dash. Good start to the challenge. Day 8 - Still pretty warn out from from the race but ate well and hit 10K steps on moving around goal. Started coughing at night. Day 9 - Started feeling worse as the day went on, thinking it is just a bad cold virus type thing so far, had hoped to workout this day but wasn't feeling well enough, did hit 10K steps at least. Day 10 - Went home sick, my head is trying to explode or implode every time I cough, fever and chills oh my, didn't really each much today so was easy to be paleo, did not move much as I slept most of the day Day 11 - So much for a planned trip to Noah's Ark for the day Still feeling awful and with the previous nights fever and chills it's time to visit the doctor, did I mention we are going on vacation in 3 days One trip to the doctor later and the news is bronchitis, probably bacterial no less. Zpak, steroids, narcotic cough syrup and large musinex pills are now my life Day 12 - The meds helped and I have to ignore being sick to start getting ready for vacation. Lots of laundry and cleaning between collapsing on the couch to catch my breath. Day 13 - Fever is fully gone finally and a better night of sleep made this day better. Finished packing and cleaning and managed to mow the lawn. Still very worn out though but did manage to hit 10k steps from all the moving around. Day 14 - Car packed up and onward to vacation up in the north woods. Very worn out as the last few days catch up to me. Still coughing pretty bad when not on the cough syrup but feeling better overall. Did hit 10K steps Week 2 Summary - Workout plan did not go well this week with no "normal" workouts but between cleaning, laundry, packing and getting ready for vacation on top of being sick I don't feel too bad about the week. Eating was a mess since I hardly ate for several days and had 3 bad meals instead of the planned for 2 but it was a rough week. Moving around was still pretty good except for the two worst days mid week being the sickest. This was a rough week to get through with the illness. For Week 3 we'll be on vacation and I probably won't give a day by day acccount but instead just give a summary when we are back.

Victory! I may not be able to move tomorrow but I finished! To Finish Day 6: Food - Craptastic but expected as the time to not be paleo, I'm pretty sure I burned a few extra calories today Workout - 1 Warrior Dash Completed Get Moving - The 5K dash became an 8k with the extra mile on each end walking from parking! Today had plenty of moving. I have very low expectations for tomorrow but I should be back at the gym on Monday.

Thanks T2SarahConnor! I think I'm going to end up going the ranger route but we'll see where there goes. 3 hours till Warrior Dash time! Time to catchup quick before we head out. Day 4 Food - Full paleo Workout - Full cardio of 55 minutes on the elliptical Get Moving - Still parking out in the back 40, had a pretty good step count even before the workout Day 5 Food - Close to paleo, we ate out last night and I had tilapia with a mango chipotle salsa that probably had a bit of sugar in it. probably not enough to matter and everything else was paleo Workout - Rest day before the race Get Moving - Parked properly but was stuck in a lot of meetings so step count wasn't as good but I was never still for more than an hour so still kept to the goal if not exceeding it as much as I'd like to Day 6 WARRIOR DASH!!!!!!!!!!!!! more to come about day 6 later

Update 2 and 3 (I slacked on posting yesterday since it was a rest day) Day 2 Food Intake - Paleo with the exception (hello Chipotle!) so 2 for 2 for the week Workout - Rest day Get Moving - Still parking out in lala land even with the thread of rain! Didn't quite hit the fitbit 10K step goal but close and better than my past 2-3K max on non workout days Day 3 Food Intake - Full paleo 3/3 for the week Workout: cardio/lifting mix 40 mins intervals on the treadmill 5x5 @ 125 Bench 3x10 @ 84 V-Bar Pulldowns 3x10 @ 108 Seated Cable Rows 2x10 @ 50 standing barbell curls 2x10 @ 25 standing dumbbell curls Get Moving: had almost 10K steps when I got to the gym. I also did plenty of deadlifting at work moving around 25 server weighing 50-110lbs each to prepare them for removal

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/me shakes his fist at haikoo for causing a double post!

7ft your battle has no log! Stardate 201407282200.5 Battle Log Entry #1 Food Intake - All paleo! Get Moving - Parked in Timbuktu and spent most of the day in the datacenter unracking old (heavy!) servers to be disposed of so no problems there Workout Today was a full lifting day 10 Minute on elliptical doing intervals for a warmup Bench - 5x5 @ 125lb Seated Cable Row - 3x10 @ 108lb V-bar pulldowns - 3x10 @ 80lb Lat Pulldowns - 3x10 @ 96lb Deadlift - 5x5 @ 185lb Standing Barbell Curl - 3x10 @ 50lb (staying upright, no body swing to assist!) Seated Dumbell Curl - 2x10 @ 25lb per arm T minus 5 days to play in the mud!