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New challenge to be found on a later post.... For Bouncer's Golden-Eye Dragon Curse Challenge. More info on old challenge below: Bouncer has a Spreadsheet challenge put aside.

☆☆☆ Challenge 4 ☆☆☆ ☆ Main Story, Goal 1: get back to pre-wedding weight (Goal 2: Pass avg fitness test Goal 3: 25% or less body fat Goal 4: gain post apocalyptic survivalist fitness level Goal 5: ???) Quest 1: workout 3x a week! (09/12 +3STR, 07/12 +2STR, 05/12 +1STR) I am finally ready to do full workouts. Steve's beginner body weight workout is my focus. Of course there are options, but I enjoyed the body weight exercises from last challenge so much I wanted to make it a focus. Quest 2: primal 80/20 + 100g carbs max weekly avg + 1600cals max weekly avg! (23/26 4/4 +3CON/+1CHA, 20/26 3/4 +2CON/+1CHA, 17/26 2/4 +1CON) Kind of busted on the carb goal the last half of the challenge so keeping it around til it sinks in. I also took a look at my cals from last challenge and got a general idea of where to start with decreasing it a tiny bit at a time to get me use to cutting back and watching cals. Weekly averages are nice cause it covers social events and times when I just want to share a drink with my friends. Quest 3: Weening off dairy, 14oz max weekly! (4/4 +3CHA, 3/4 +2CHA, 2/4 +1CHA) So some potentially gross facts: my skin sucks. Like big time. My goal is to throw out the dairy to see if it makes any difference. Plus I discovered my all time trigger food for binge eating: icecream. Oops. But I have to ween off because to go 100% free suddenly made my brain panic and eat ALL the dairy... so baby steps. Bonus: drink more freaking water! .5oz per lb minimum! By the way I am SUPER dehydrated like all the time and did I mention my skin sucks? ☆☆☆ My motivation ☆☆☆ 1. I want to be a good example for my sisters and future children 2. To optimally manage my mental health 3. I want a healthy relationship with food 4. I want to be more comfortable in my skin 5. To be able to better participate in walks, hikes, and other outdoorsy things I once enjoyed 6. To be able to be pregnant safely and have the energy to play with my child (disclaimer: I have jacked up ankles and very literally weak core muscles that don't even activate properly when exercised, so if I got pregnant while being in my current physical condition I likely could render myself immobile) 7. I want to be able to protect myself 8. To better my chances at having a long and healthy life with my loved ones 9. My husband 10. Myself

Life Quest: Lose 15 lbs. I set 20 as a goal last challenge and managed 11. 15 is more realistic while still being challenging. Quest 1: Meal Planing - Create weekly meal plans. S - Tuesday nights, after I pick up my CSA, I will sit down and plan a week of food. This plan should include at least one new recipe a week and will be on the whiteboard and kept in the kitchen as a handy reminder. Due to night classes, Wednesday and Friday are going to be eating out, but I will plan on hearty lunches those days, and look for menu items that include lean protein, lots of veggies, and I will try to not look at the appetizers or deserts! Unless the appetizer is the meal. M - 6 weeks/6 plans. A/R/T - Totally doable. Notes: This is an upgrade from last challenge's of increasing fruit and vegetable consumption. It didn't have a solid enough "How To" for me. Potential Points - 4 CONS / 1 WIS Quest 2: Big Stretching Every Other Day - I hesitate to call it yoga at this point. S - I will do a 15 minute stretching routine in the morning after brushing my teeth and making my bed. This is on days I am not doing Quest 3. M - 21 days during the next 6 weeks. A/R/T - Yup! Potential Points - 5 DEX Quest 3: BBW Every Other Day (with stretching-lite) S - I will do the Beginner Bodyweight Workout in the morning after brushing my teeth and making my bed. This is on days I am not doing Quest 2. M - 21 days during the next 6 weeks. A/R/T - Ctrl-C Ctrl-V ? - Whatever do you mean? Potential Points - 5 STR Other Notes: All points will be awarded based on percentage of the quest completed, and will be rounded DOWN to the nearest 10th. My Recruit Challenge had a walking component. I had originally planned on upping that as part of this challenge, but the treadmill that was going to be mine ended up being... bad, and I'm not sure how safe it will be walking where I'm going to be (narrow, winding dirt road = me getting hit by a pickup.) I've kept up with it in the break between this challenge and the last, though. Plus I AM going to be walking at least once a week due to a coworker (we're taking the same Wednesday class), and I hope to do more, but I wanted challenge items that were definitely possible. My Friday class got moved. It was going to be a 50 mile round trip each Friday; it is now a 200 mile round trip each Friday... I am less than pleased with this turn of events, but I am making peace with it. It also got moved in time, and now doesn't start until October. All of this is going to make my morning workout a touch difficult, and it doesn't help with the whole eating better thing, but I'll have a bit more time to plan for it. Bonus Quest: Explore the New Town I'm moving on Tuesday. The town I'm heading to is small (about 600 folks) but there are, apparently, happenings. If there is a town meeting at night and I don't have classes, I will attend. I will check the post office, store, and town hall bulletin boards for events and groups. I understand there may be a book club. I will visit the historic site (not sure how many, apparently there are more than a dozen...). If there is a tour available I will take it. I will get a map of the trails. I will look a the map. I may even wander over to one of the trails. Of course, I'm worried about ticks, so maybe not so much... Motivation I've never been good at motivation. I can't seem to see future me, so I have a difficult time trying to make things good for her. She's imaginary and I don't do very well with imaginary friends; I forgot to water Tenebrous (THAT'S A REAL WORD, SPELLCHECK!) for a few months and I don't think it's doing very well... So I'm just trying to be an adult that can take care of herself. I guess... that's my motivation? OH! And longer-term goal (like next summer) is to be able to go on roller-coasters and water-slides again!

Total n00b here, on my second day of the Beginner Bodyweight Workout. I loved it the first day, but I got through two cycles and was so physically tired I had trouble going down stairs because my quads were so tired. So I let it rest for a few days and then started again today. About halfway through the first set of lunges, my right quad felt like it seized up and went OW OW OW OW. Is that a cramp? I stretched it out and that seemed to help, but I can definitely still feel it being kind of tight and painful and not wanting to do anything. Did I grievously harm myself? Do I need to return to level negative one? Is this even something you, my fellow rebels, can answer over the internet? My sincere apologies if this is the dumbest question ever. I'm just not sure how to proceed - should I try the workout again tomorrow? (Or the day after tomorrow?)

I was fit once. Now I am not. I hope Nerd Fitness will finally get me back on track. (literally and figuratively) Main Quest: Be fit and healthy. Like I used to be in school. (Now I'm 28) Quest 1: Do the beginner body weight workout and the interval training at least once a week. Slowly build up from there. Also try following the Paleo Diet to the best of my ability. Quest 2: Make sure I do quest 1. I have done the beginner body weight workout once. It was death. I managed only one circuit. My legs were like jelly for the next few days. Interval training tomorrow...

Hey everyone I've on my first challenge and I've been doing the level 1 Bodyweight workout for over a month now. I've noticed recently that my right knee is a little weaker than the left. Whenever I do lunges or squats or step ups, I get a little twinge in my knee. Today I was on my second round of lunges when my knee gave out and I just went down to the grass. I ended my workout early only completing 2 and a half reps, too scared I would damage my knee. Is there something going on in my k we I should be concerned about? Are their stretches or exercises I can do? Thanks in advance for your help!!!

So I was going to post a picture of a chain chomp from mario here, but my forum noob skills couldnt manage it, so the joke has slightly been lost now, but hey ho! But seriously I keep finding myself in a bit of a catch 22. I get motivated to change my lifestyle, get going with exercise, and then seem to injure myself in some way and have to stop/rest up and lose momentum. I am convinced my injuries result from my poor posture and sedentary lifestyle, but the only way I can change that is through exercise, hence this feeling of being in an infinite loop. I've been doing the Beginner Body Weight Circuit for the last three weeks, and have had to stop this time as I seem to have done something to my hip. Everything I'm reading suggests that it may have come about from overuse or poor form maybe in my squats, and I should rest it for 6-8 weeks. I thought at first it was in my lower back as I have injured this before, and so I thought I'd give Yoga a go to try and strengthen my back gradually, and I found that this helped my back but my hip pain remains. I don't know the answer to the problem, I don't want to lose momentum again, I'm thinking maybe give the BBWW a rest for a while, but continue with the Yoga (which I'm loving BTW so this may be a blessing in disguise). I worry that even that may be too much, but how will I ever get stronger and prevent these injuries if I don't keep moving.