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Stepped away for a coffee, and had a couple more things hit me. Even if I enjoy a night out intoxicated, what portion of my evening/day/week represent? 4-5 hours being out, leaving another 20 hours in the day. Those 4-5 hours make me feel poor, ruin my sleep, make me not want to achieve anything the next day. My best characteristics: my ability to be self-motivated, my athletic ability, and my ambition. All of these things get shut down when I drink. Not to sound like a whiny bitch, but I'm just airing out all of these questions I need to ask myself. It is just completely unnecessary, and something I don't want in my life for the near future. Let's do this.

Been off the grid. Wasn't looking forward to this post, since this whole challenge thing is only a couple of weeks deep, and the goal is close. I've kind of bottomed out, but I need to reflect and use this to learn. I had a singular beer with a dinner during the week, and I thought this would be alright and harmless. This wasn't the case, and really made me open my eyes. Motivation, eating, and my overall feeling well crashed. I didn't even get drunk, one beer. This made me get down on myself for not being able to moderate how I treated my body following this event, but then after I stopped being down, I started reflecting. If a beer (and very little alcohol content), can make me feel like trash for the better part of a weekend, what benefit does it have to me? Spending money on this for what? Is it because I'm introverted and alcohol helps loosen people up in social situations? Nah, I'm way more social when I feel confident. Because it tastes good? Coffee tastes damn good. Pretty much looking at the goal date down the road, I was also stressing I'd start to miss my bench marks. So what? I need to start taking care of the one thing I have in my life, and that is myself. I have been running and exercising enough to the goal, but I'm sick of eating well for 2 weeks, then being de-railed for one because I try to work in alcohol. Screw it.

Been slacking on the posting. Cut a minute off that run despite wanting nothing to do with going. Was ready to sloth around, but got that spark for a second and acted on it. Weather has been beautiful.

had an awesome run today, and upped the calories to 1500 for the last two days. going strong.

Yeah, my peak for the week has been 950, with day 1/2 being at 650. Basically protein only, as I'm doing a protein sparing modified fast.

Yesterday went good, also. ~850 calories for the day while hitting my protein. Got a 20 minute jog in. Luckily I'm not sick, read it over now I definitely didn't state it was cold while running aha.

Well couldn't update yesterday, site down? 16/16/8mg of E again. Got a 20 minute run/walk in after work. Cold is attacking my lungs lol. 953 calories, and will now be eating at least 170g of protein per day.

24 minutes of walking. 16/16/8mg of ephedrine, 895 calories total. Going swimmingly thus far!

680 calorie day. 16/16/8mg of ephedrine again, and my appetite is dead. got a 26 minute walk in after work as well.

Well started my EC dosing at 16mg, 16mg, 8mg, all with 100mg of coffee (taken through 1 large mug full, since my caps are 200mg). Got a 25 minute, 2.1mi walk in (viewable on my fitocracy). I fasted all day, did my cardio after work, and then ate a hour or so following that. Calories ~600, will update later on.

Just checked my e-mail, the first book titles is - A New Earth: Awakening to Your Lifes Purpose. Kinda skeptical since it's on Oprah's booklist and what not, and I feel it may be propaganda type stuff. But I've heard from good sources that it is a rather enlightening read. Second one will be determine after this one, but want it to be on the topic of Sport Psychology.

Was a member of the last challenge, but fell off about 4 weeks in. A little pissed off, and I deserve a large F for all of my goals. I have moved from warriors to adventurers for this since I'm going to focus on losing weight and being healthier generally during these 6 weeks. This thread will be updated a little more once I get to my desktop. Starting Attributes: Age 23 - 6'1 - Weight TBD Level 2 - STR: 3 | DEX: 2 | CON: 3 | STA: 2 | WIS: 4 | CHA: 1 Fitness - Exercise 5 days a week (Either weights or 20 minutes min. of cardio) - +2 Dex, +3 Sta Whether it be walking, jogging, or weight lifting, working full time makes being sedentary very easily. I will complete at least 5 workouts to be logged on fitocracy or runkeeper per week. Calorie count every day in this period, with no cheat meals - +2 Con, +3 Cha To lose weight, along with the EC stack I will be doing, I will calorie count and do other things such as pre-packing meals to allow me to hit my goals. No Drinking for the duration of the challenge - +1 Sta, +1 Con I can control my eating while drinking, but it is the day after that I lose all will to eat well and eventually demolish my kitchen. For this reason, I will save my wallet and my health and not drink for the duration. Life Goals - Read 2 books during the 6 week period - +3 Wis I have a book I already to read that was recommended to me. Since I don't read much anymore, I'd also like to read another book, perhaps on sport psychology to see how I can improve my mental state when playing sports. I will get the titles shortly.

Yeah, I got a body measurement tape measure (locks in to make it easier). Going to make an excel sheet. Was food logging as well, but that would drive me bonkers if I messed up. I'm knowledgeable, so will just focus on making good choices. I've done keto a couple of times prior, so I'm just a little drained currently. Chicken broth will fix all.

Tracking as in stats or food? Was doing both. I think a lot of my blergh mood is from keto adaption, which will pass in a couple of days.

Have hit a wall, hard. Got most of my lifts near goal levels, but have been eating like absolute garbage. The increase in calories meant I used sugary foods to get there, kick in my insulin getting assaulted. I find myself having a hard time when calorie counting, that if I have a bad day, or eat something that is hard to log, my mind goes into fuck it mode. I think I should try to use my knowledge of healthy eating, and just eat sensibly (IE caloric deficit), exercise, and worry less. I get consumed by this far too often.